Shanghai

Quality:

Shanghai - provincial-level municipality in China. This city is the 33^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 43^rd most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Shanghai” in English Wikipedia has 93.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 387 references and 46 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2348^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 661^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 43^rd most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1401^st most popular in all topics.

The 459^th most popular in AI.

The 33^rd most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5300^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 3280^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3193^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2498^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Shanghai” was edited by 13 authors in English Wikipedia (3280^th place) and written by 41 authors in all languages (2498^th place).

Since the creation of article “Shanghai”, its content was written by 2184 registered users of English Wikipedia (661^st place) and edited by 8403 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (459^th place).

Shanghai is on the 43^rd place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 33^rd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 19749 times in English Wikipedia (890^th place) and cited 132886 times in all languages (910^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #236 in August 2003
• Global: #112 in May 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #793 in August 2008
• Global: #91 in May 2008

There are 55 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	Malay (ms) Shanghai		100
2	Thai (th) เซี่ยงไฮ้		97.9202
3	Indonesian (id) Shanghai		95.5837
4	Portuguese (pt) Xangai		95.5007
5	Turkish (tr) Şanghay		94.807
6	English (en) Shanghai		93.2223
7	Esperanto (eo) Ŝanhajo		93.0321
8	Chinese (zh) 上海市		92.8123
9	Polish (pl) Szanghaj		92.3451
10	Croatian (hr) Šangaj		89.8554

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shanghai		31 189 441
2	Chinese (zh) 上海市		7 216 900
3	German (de) Shanghai		6 533 365
4	Japanese (ja) 上海市		5 999 655
5	Russian (ru) Шанхай		4 858 639
6	Spanish (es) Shanghái		4 739 730
7	French (fr) Shanghai		4 115 175
8	Italian (it) Shanghai		2 932 338
9	Polish (pl) Szanghaj		2 014 666
10	Portuguese (pt) Xangai		1 513 539

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) Shanghai		91 165
2	Chinese (zh) 上海市		22 113
3	Russian (ru) Шанхай		15 628
4	Japanese (ja) 上海市		11 167
5	German (de) Shanghai		10 552
6	Spanish (es) Shanghái		7 951
7	French (fr) Shanghai		7 513
8	Italian (it) Shanghai		5 218
9	Polish (pl) Szanghaj		4 899
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thượng Hải		4 129

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shanghai		2 184
2	Chinese (zh) 上海市		921
3	German (de) Shanghai		690
4	French (fr) Shanghai		516
5	Japanese (ja) 上海市		395
6	Russian (ru) Шанхай		304
7	Italian (it) Shanghai		301
8	Dutch (nl) Shanghai		268
9	Spanish (es) Shanghái		264
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thượng Hải		146

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) Shanghai		13
2	Chinese (zh) 上海市		9
3	German (de) Shanghai		5
4	Russian (ru) Шанхай		3
5	Spanish (es) Shanghái		2
6	Azerbaijani (az) Şanxay		1
7	Catalan (ca) Shanghai		1
8	Esperanto (eo) Ŝanhajo		1
9	Basque (eu) Shanghai		1
10	French (fr) Shanghai		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information