Shimla

Quality:

Shimla - capital of Himachal Pradesh, India. This city is the 769^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 351^st most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Shimla” in English Wikipedia has 72.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 121 references and 30 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 18.24 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 351^st most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 769^th most popular in cities.

In June 2026 the article “Shimla” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Shimla”, its content was written by 801 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1575 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shimla is on the 351^st place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 769^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 1569 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4725 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2451 in April 2022
• Global: #4371 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3313 in January 2015
• Global: #11888 in January 2015

There are 43 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	Hindi (hi) शिमला		89.5792
2	Tamil (ta) சிம்லா		87.8742
3	English (en) Shimla		72.941
4	Spanish (es) Shimla		58.4346
5	Portuguese (pt) Ximelá		57.7132
6	Chinese (zh) 西姆拉		53.1669
7	Thai (th) ศิมลา		45.1314
8	Persian (fa) شیملا		42.1695
9	Russian (ru) Шимла		41.6074
10	Indonesian (id) Shimla		40.7991

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shimla		8 211 556
2	Hindi (hi) शिमला		544 788
3	German (de) Shimla		149 649
4	French (fr) Shimla		133 650
5	Russian (ru) Шимла		94 507
6	Chinese (zh) 西姆拉		69 128
7	Japanese (ja) シムラー (インド)		67 682
8	Spanish (es) Shimla		62 310
9	Italian (it) Shimla		46 671
10	Arabic (ar) شيملا		43 843

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) Shimla		19 268
2	Hindi (hi) शिमला		1 175
3	French (fr) Shimla		443
4	Chinese (zh) 西姆拉		381
5	German (de) Shimla		347
6	Russian (ru) Шимла		292
7	Japanese (ja) シムラー (インド)		286
8	Spanish (es) Shimla		281
9	Persian (fa) شیملا		215
10	Italian (it) Shimla		147

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shimla		801
2	German (de) Shimla		75
3	French (fr) Shimla		74
4	Hindi (hi) शिमला		70
5	Dutch (nl) Shimla (stad)		54
6	Russian (ru) Шимла		48
7	Italian (it) Shimla		37
8	Hebrew (he) שימלה		36
9	Danish (da) Shimla		32
10	Polish (pl) Shimla		28

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) Shimla		2
2	Basque (eu) Shimla		1
3	Persian (fa) شیملا		1
4	Arabic (ar) شيملا		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Şimla		0
6	Belarusian (be) Шымла		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Шимла		0
8	Catalan (ca) Simla		0
9	Czech (cs) Šimla		0
10	Danish (da) Shimla		0

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

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