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 44^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Shanghai” in English Wikipedia has 93.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 473 references and 47 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 2316^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 696^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 44^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1408^th most popular in all topics.

The 452^nd most popular in AI.

The 33^rd most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4771^st most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 6689^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2365^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2844^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Shanghai” was edited by 11 authors in English Wikipedia (6689^th place) and written by 38 authors in all languages (2844^th place).

Since the creation of article “Shanghai”, its content was written by 2121 registered users of English Wikipedia (696^th place) and edited by 8325 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (452^nd place).

Shanghai is on the 44^th 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 19082 times in English Wikipedia (916^th place) and cited 126024 times in all languages (946^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #237 in August 2003
• Global: #113 in May 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #795 in August 2008
• Global: #92 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, 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	Indonesian (id) Shanghai		95.5831
2	Portuguese (pt) Xangai		95.3498
3	Turkish (tr) Şanghay		94.8993
4	Esperanto (eo) Ŝanhajo		93.3605
5	English (en) Shanghai		93.3572
6	Polish (pl) Szanghaj		92.7149
7	Chinese (zh) 上海市		92.7059
8	Croatian (hr) Šangaj		90.0938
9	Persian (fa) شانگهای		88.973
10	German (de) Shanghai		83.7415

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shanghai		29 855 402
2	Chinese (zh) 上海市		6 831 675
3	German (de) Shanghai		6 351 411
4	Japanese (ja) 上海市		5 832 606
5	Spanish (es) Shanghái		4 600 628
6	Russian (ru) Шанхай		4 305 347
7	French (fr) Shanghai		3 986 849
8	Italian (it) Shanghai		2 813 129
9	Polish (pl) Szanghaj		1 931 034
10	Portuguese (pt) Xangai		1 466 419

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		107 754
2	Chinese (zh) 上海市		36 230
3	Russian (ru) Шанхай		18 097
4	Japanese (ja) 上海市		15 014
5	German (de) Shanghai		13 787
6	Spanish (es) Shanghái		12 260
7	French (fr) Shanghai		10 527
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thượng Hải		7 020
9	Italian (it) Shanghai		6 940
10	Korean (ko) 상하이시		6 254

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shanghai		2 121
2	Chinese (zh) 上海市		898
3	German (de) Shanghai		679
4	French (fr) Shanghai		511
5	Japanese (ja) 上海市		385
6	Russian (ru) Шанхай		298
7	Italian (it) Shanghai		297
8	Dutch (nl) Shanghai		265
9	Spanish (es) Shanghái		256
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thượng Hải		144

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		11
2	Chinese (zh) 上海市		7
3	Spanish (es) Shanghái		2
4	Hebrew (he) שאנגחאי		2
5	Hindi (hi) शंघाई		2
6	Italian (it) Shanghai		2
7	Japanese (ja) 上海市		2
8	Azerbaijani (az) Şanxay		1
9	German (de) Shanghai		1
10	Esperanto (eo) Ŝanhajo		1

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

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