Urbanization

Quality:

Urbanization - longterm population movements (shift) from rural to urban areas. Article “Urbanization” in English Wikipedia has 83 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 141 references and 28 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.22 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9149^th most popular in all topics.

The 7730^th most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article “Urbanization” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Urbanization”, its content was written by 801 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2871 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7730^th place).

The article is cited 3839 times in English Wikipedia (6765^th place) and cited 20608 times in all languages (8028^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2057 in March 2005
• Global: #2164 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9639 in October 2013
• Global: #4915 in November 2014

There are 52 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	Portuguese (pt) Urbanização		94.3405
2	English (en) Urbanization		82.9844
3	German (de) Urbanisierung		80.6211
4	Chinese (zh) 城市化		64.1948
5	Estonian (et) Linnastumine		54.6069
6	Catalan (ca) Urbanització		47.7036
7	French (fr) Urbanisation		47.3318
8	Ukrainian (uk) Урбанізація		43.3942
9	Finnish (fi) Kaupungistuminen		43.04
10	Malay (ms) Pembandaran		41.3336

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Urbanization		8 639 254
2	German (de) Urbanisierung		2 723 986
3	Russian (ru) Урбанизация		2 686 853
4	Portuguese (pt) Urbanização		1 852 452
5	Polish (pl) Urbanizacja		1 337 023
6	French (fr) Urbanisation		1 325 511
7	Spanish (es) Proceso de urbanización		1 304 353
8	Indonesian (id) Pengotaan		1 098 167
9	Ukrainian (uk) Урбанізація		935 877
10	Vietnamese (vi) Đô thị hóa		632 781

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) Urbanization		14 460
2	Russian (ru) Урбанизация		3 651
3	German (de) Urbanisierung		2 650
4	Portuguese (pt) Urbanização		1 330
5	Chinese (zh) 城市化		1 030
6	French (fr) Urbanisation		1 006
7	Spanish (es) Proceso de urbanización		672
8	Polish (pl) Urbanizacja		616
9	Indonesian (id) Pengotaan		499
10	Italian (it) Urbanizzazione		440

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Urbanization		801
2	German (de) Urbanisierung		368
3	French (fr) Urbanisation		154
4	Russian (ru) Урбанизация		120
5	Portuguese (pt) Urbanização		116
6	Dutch (nl) Verstedelijking		96
7	Polish (pl) Urbanizacja		86
8	Hebrew (he) עיור		83
9	Finnish (fi) Kaupungistuminen		72
10	Spanish (es) Proceso de urbanización		66

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	German (de) Urbanisierung		2
2	English (en) Urbanization		2
3	French (fr) Urbanisation		1
4	Italian (it) Urbanizzazione		1
5	Dutch (nl) Verstedelijking		1
6	Arabic (ar) تحضر		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Urbanizasiya		0
8	Belarusian (be) Урбанізацыя		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Урбанизация		0
10	Catalan (ca) Urbanització		0

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

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