Urbanization

Quality:

Urbanization - longterm population movements (shift) from rural to urban areas. Article “Urbanization” in English Wikipedia has 83.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 152 references and 30 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.23 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 9429^th most popular in all topics.

The 7887^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Urbanization”, its content was written by 822 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2887 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7887^th place).

The article is cited 3945 times in English Wikipedia (7013^th place) and cited 21615 times in all languages (7969^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2049 in March 2005
• Global: #2163 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9573 in October 2013
• Global: #4594 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, 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	Portuguese (pt) Urbanização		94.1671
2	English (en) Urbanization		83.0571
3	German (de) Urbanisierung		78.6679
4	Chinese (zh) 城市化		64.0295
5	Estonian (et) Linnastumine		53.1923
6	Catalan (ca) Urbanització		47.7191
7	French (fr) Urbanisation		47.2125
8	Finnish (fi) Kaupungistuminen		43.0267
9	Malay (ms) Pembandaran		42.7047
10	Ukrainian (uk) Урбанізація		41.2313

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Urbanization		8 779 640
2	Russian (ru) Урбанизация		3 099 054
3	German (de) Urbanisierung		2 764 651
4	Portuguese (pt) Urbanização		1 865 369
5	Polish (pl) Urbanizacja		1 347 274
6	French (fr) Urbanisation		1 345 179
7	Spanish (es) Proceso de urbanización		1 311 091
8	Indonesian (id) Urbanisasi		1 103 257
9	Ukrainian (uk) Урбанізація		942 462
10	Vietnamese (vi) Đô thị hóa		638 074

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		6 983
2	Russian (ru) Урбанизация		3 144
3	German (de) Urbanisierung		3 126
4	French (fr) Urbanisation		659
5	Chinese (zh) 城市化		646
6	Portuguese (pt) Urbanização		527
7	Polish (pl) Urbanizacja		477
8	Japanese (ja) 都市化		366
9	Persian (fa) شهرنشینی		294
10	Spanish (es) Proceso de urbanización		261

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Urbanization		822
2	German (de) Urbanisierung		369
3	French (fr) Urbanisation		154
4	Russian (ru) Урбанизация		125
5	Portuguese (pt) Urbanização		117
6	Dutch (nl) Verstedelijking		95
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	Italian (it) Urbanizzazione		2
2	Catalan (ca) Urbanització		1
3	Greek (el) Αστικοποίηση		1
4	Esperanto (eo) Urbigo		1
5	Croatian (hr) Urbanizacija		1
6	Korean (ko) 도시화		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Урбанізація		1
8	Arabic (ar) تحضر		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Urbanizasiya		0
10	Belarusian (be) Урбанізацыя		0

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

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