Sanctuary city

Quality:

Sanctuary city - place that limits cooperation with national immigration law. Article “Sanctuary city” in English Wikipedia has 87.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 290 references and 18 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Sanctuary city” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sanctuary city”, its content was written by 422 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 524 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 527 times in English Wikipedia and cited 612 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #160 in November 2016
• Global: #1213 in November 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #405 in November 2016
• Global: #1429 in November 2016

There are 10 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, 2025 (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	English (en) Sanctuary city		87.6838
2	German (de) Sanctuary Cities		34.8674
3	Spanish (es) Ciudad santuario		34.3018
4	Russian (ru) Город-убежище		28.5077
5	French (fr) Ville sanctuaire		21.292
6	Vietnamese (vi) Thành phố trú ẩn		20.2999
7	Chinese (zh) 庇護城市		18.4685
8	Japanese (ja) 聖域都市		17.0254
9	Simple English (simple) Sanctuary city		15.4583
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Pì-ìm siâⁿ-chhī		0.544

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sanctuary city		4 856 645
2	Spanish (es) Ciudad santuario		89 935
3	German (de) Sanctuary Cities		82 608
4	French (fr) Ville sanctuaire		61 260
5	Japanese (ja) 聖域都市		48 639
6	Chinese (zh) 庇護城市		15 483
7	Simple English (simple) Sanctuary city		2 462
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thành phố trú ẩn		2 113
9	Russian (ru) Город-убежище		1 145
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Pì-ìm siâⁿ-chhī		379

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sanctuary city		49 370
2	Chinese (zh) 庇護城市		2 549
3	German (de) Sanctuary Cities		2 323
4	Japanese (ja) 聖域都市		1 925
5	Spanish (es) Ciudad santuario		1 264
6	Russian (ru) Город-убежище		1 064
7	French (fr) Ville sanctuaire		982
8	Simple English (simple) Sanctuary city		284
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thành phố trú ẩn		39
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Pì-ìm siâⁿ-chhī		10

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sanctuary city		422
2	German (de) Sanctuary Cities		29
3	French (fr) Ville sanctuaire		23
4	Spanish (es) Ciudad santuario		18
5	Japanese (ja) 聖域都市		16
6	Simple English (simple) Sanctuary city		7
7	Min Nan (zhminnan) Pì-ìm siâⁿ-chhī		3
8	Russian (ru) Город-убежище		2
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thành phố trú ẩn		2
10	Chinese (zh) 庇護城市		2

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sanctuary city		8
2	German (de) Sanctuary Cities		1
3	Russian (ru) Город-убежище		1
4	Chinese (zh) 庇護城市		1
5	Spanish (es) Ciudad santuario		0
6	French (fr) Ville sanctuaire		0
7	Japanese (ja) 聖域都市		0
8	Simple English (simple) Sanctuary city		0
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thành phố trú ẩn		0
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Pì-ìm siâⁿ-chhī		0

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

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