Shrinking city

Shrinking city - dense city that has experienced notable population loss. Article “Shrinking city” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 154 references and 21 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 “Shrinking city” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Shrinking city”, its content was written by 122 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 161 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 78 times in English Wikipedia and cited 546 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8170 in May 2014
• Global: #40049 in May 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #243527 in November 2020
• Global: #381749 in November 2020

There are 7 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) Shrinking city		100
2	Chinese (zh) 收缩城市		94.4454
3	Estonian (et) Kahanevad linnad		73.6884
4	Polish (pl) Kurczenie się miast		22.9
5	Swedish (sv) Krympande stad		16.2983
6	Japanese (ja) 縮退都市		12.1114
7	French (fr) Dépopulation urbaine		1.9574

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Shrinking city" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shrinking city		478 480
2	Chinese (zh) 收缩城市		32 232
3	Japanese (ja) 縮退都市		13 826
4	Swedish (sv) Krympande stad		6 290
5	Estonian (et) Kahanevad linnad		3 182
6	French (fr) Dépopulation urbaine		1 726
7	Polish (pl) Kurczenie się miast		1 406

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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 "Shrinking city" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shrinking city		2 567
2	Chinese (zh) 收缩城市		217
3	Japanese (ja) 縮退都市		62
4	French (fr) Dépopulation urbaine		37
5	Polish (pl) Kurczenie się miast		21
6	Swedish (sv) Krympande stad		19
7	Estonian (et) Kahanevad linnad		18

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

Language versions of the article "Shrinking city" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shrinking city		122
2	Swedish (sv) Krympande stad		10
3	Japanese (ja) 縮退都市		8
4	Polish (pl) Kurczenie się miast		8
5	Estonian (et) Kahanevad linnad		6
6	Chinese (zh) 收缩城市		4
7	French (fr) Dépopulation urbaine		3

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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 "Shrinking city" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shrinking city		1
2	Estonian (et) Kahanevad linnad		0
3	French (fr) Dépopulation urbaine		0
4	Japanese (ja) 縮退都市		0
5	Polish (pl) Kurczenie się miast		0
6	Swedish (sv) Krympande stad		0
7	Chinese (zh) 收缩城市		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 "Shrinking city" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 縮退都市		281
2	Chinese (zh) 收缩城市		170
3	English (en) Shrinking city		78
4	Swedish (sv) Krympande stad		8
5	Estonian (et) Kahanevad linnad		6
6	Polish (pl) Kurczenie się miast		2
7	French (fr) Dépopulation urbaine		1

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#	Language	Value
en	English Shrinking city
et	Estonian Kahanevad linnad
fr	French Dépopulation urbaine
ja	Japanese 縮退都市
pl	Polish Kurczenie się miast
sv	Swedish Krympande stad
zh	Chinese 收缩城市

Best Rank

English: #243527 11.2020

Global: #381749 11.2020

Best Rank

English: #8170 05.2014

Global: #40049 05.2014

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