Red-light district

Red-light district - an urban area with a high concentration of sex-related businesses. Article “Red-light district” in English Wikipedia has 44.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 13 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.35 points.

This article has the best quality in Swedish Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Red-light district”, its content was written by 388 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1267 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1288 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4356 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4363 in February 2005
• Global: #10497 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6568 in May 2024
• Global: #9715 in December 2008

There are 36 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Swedish (sv) Prostitutionsstråk		47.5787
2	English (en) Red-light district		44.6597
3	Hindi (hi) रेड लाइट एरिया		38.6314
4	Malay (ms) Daerah lampu merah		38.1815
5	Chinese (zh) 紅燈區		36.2875
6	German (de) Rotlichtviertel		34.338
7	Hungarian (hu) Piroslámpás negyed		33.9975
8	Vietnamese (vi) Phố đèn đỏ		30.6451
9	Esperanto (eo) Ruĝluma areo		29.9401
10	Finnish (fi) Punaisten lyhtyjen alue		29.0598

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Red-light district" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Red-light district		9 376 886
2	Japanese (ja) 風俗街		1 699 757
3	Russian (ru) Квартал красных фонарей		1 278 753
4	German (de) Rotlichtviertel		822 045
5	Hindi (hi) रेड लाइट एरिया		788 738
6	Spanish (es) Barrio rojo		774 619
7	Chinese (zh) 紅燈區		614 960
8	Italian (it) Quartiere a luci rosse		508 569
9	Polish (pl) Dzielnica czerwonych latarni		411 870
10	Hebrew (he) רובע החלונות האדומים		200 420

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Red-light district" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Red-light district		29 570
2	Hindi (hi) रेड लाइट एरिया		8 685
3	Russian (ru) Квартал красных фонарей		3 895
4	Japanese (ja) 風俗街		2 856
5	Chinese (zh) 紅燈區		2 243
6	Persian (fa) منطقه سرخ		1 632
7	German (de) Rotlichtviertel		1 415
8	Spanish (es) Barrio rojo		1 330
9	Polish (pl) Dzielnica czerwonych latarni		1 192
10	Turkish (tr) Kırmızı ışık bölgesi		1 185

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Red-light district" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Red-light district		388
2	German (de) Rotlichtviertel		155
3	Italian (it) Quartiere a luci rosse		86
4	Japanese (ja) 風俗街		86
5	Russian (ru) Квартал красных фонарей		65
6	Chinese (zh) 紅燈區		63
7	French (fr) Quartier chaud (prostitution)		59
8	Hebrew (he) רובע החלונות האדומים		48
9	Spanish (es) Barrio rojo		47
10	Korean (ko) 홍등가		33

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Red-light district" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) منطقة الضوء الأحمر		1
2	Indonesian (id) Lokalisasi pelacuran		1
3	Chinese (zh) 紅燈區		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Qırmızı fənər məhəlləsi		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Квартал на червените фенери		0
6	Catalan (ca) Districte vermell		0
7	Danish (da) Red-light district		0
8	German (de) Rotlichtviertel		0
9	English (en) Red-light district		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Ruĝluma areo		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Red-light district" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Red-light district		1 288
2	Chinese (zh) 紅燈區		408
3	Spanish (es) Barrio rojo		243
4	German (de) Rotlichtviertel		230
5	Persian (fa) منطقه سرخ		226
6	Japanese (ja) 風俗街		200
7	Russian (ru) Квартал красных фонарей		194
8	Turkish (tr) Kırmızı ışık bölgesi		162
9	Vietnamese (vi) Phố đèn đỏ		158
10	Swedish (sv) Prostitutionsstråk		147

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic منطقة الضوء الأحمر
az	Azerbaijani Qırmızı fənər məhəlləsi
bg	Bulgarian Квартал на червените фенери
ca	Catalan Districte vermell
da	Danish Red-light district
de	German Rotlichtviertel
en	English Red-light district
eo	Esperanto Ruĝluma areo
es	Spanish Barrio rojo
eu	Basque Auzo gorri
fa	Persian منطقه سرخ
fi	Finnish Punaisten lyhtyjen alue
fr	French Quartier chaud (prostitution)
he	Hebrew רובע החלונות האדומים
hi	Hindi रेड लाइट एरिया
hr	Croatian Crvena četvrt
hu	Hungarian Piroslámpás negyed
hy	Armenian Կարմիր լապտերների թաղամաս
id	Indonesian Lokalisasi pelacuran
it	Italian Quartiere a luci rosse
ja	Japanese 風俗街
ka	Georgian წითელი ფარნების კვარტალი
ko	Korean 홍등가
ms	Malay Daerah lampu merah
nl	Dutch Rosse buurt
no	Norwegian Red-light district
pl	Polish Dzielnica czerwonych latarni
pt	Portuguese Zona de meretrício
ru	Russian Квартал красных фонарей
simple	Simple English Red-light district
sv	Swedish Prostitutionsstråk
tr	Turkish Kırmızı ışık bölgesi
uk	Ukrainian Квартал червоних ліхтарів
ur	Urdu بازار حسن
vi	Vietnamese Phố đèn đỏ
zh	Chinese 紅燈區

Best Rank

English: #6568 05.2024

Global: #9715 12.2008

Best Rank

English: #4363 02.2005

Global: #10497 12.2011

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