Washington, D.C.

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Washington, D.C. - capital city of the United States of America. This city is the 8^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 6^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Washington, D.C.” in English Wikipedia has 88.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 428 references and 42 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.65 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 322^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 356^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 6^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 421^st most popular in all topics.

The 297^th most popular in AI.

The 8^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 939^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 8427^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 852^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1562^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Washington, D.C.” was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (8427^th place) and written by 51 authors in all languages (1562^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Washington, D.C.”, its content was written by 2555 registered users of English Wikipedia (356^th place) and edited by 9381 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (297^th place).

Washington, D.C. is on the 6^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 8^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 77165 times in English Wikipedia (136^th place) and cited 349212 times in all languages (264^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #39 in September 2001
• Global: #8 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #165 in January 2009
• Global: #131 in November 2020

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	Tamil (ta) வாசிங்டன், டி. சி.		100
2	Urdu (ur) واشنگٹن، ڈی سی		99.4786
3	Armenian (hy) Վաշինգտոն ԿՇ		98.6163
4	Esperanto (eo) Vaŝingtono		97.3319
5	Italian (it) Washington		95.726
6	Vietnamese (vi) Washington, D.C.		95.1678
7	Polish (pl) Waszyngton		93.6827
8	Belarusian (be) Вашынгтон		92.5392
9	Turkish (tr) Washington, DC		92.4039
10	Indonesian (id) Washington, D.C.		91.2372

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Washington, D.C.		69 292 683
2	Spanish (es) Washington D. C.		8 833 813
3	German (de) Washington, D.C.		8 505 152
4	Russian (ru) Вашингтон		6 405 556
5	Japanese (ja) ワシントンD.C.		5 865 476
6	French (fr) Washington (district de Columbia)		5 405 069
7	Italian (it) Washington		4 180 659
8	Portuguese (pt) Washington, D.C.		3 046 180
9	Polish (pl) Waszyngton		3 006 381
10	Chinese (zh) 华盛顿哥伦比亚特区		2 306 769

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) Washington, D.C.		267 805
2	Spanish (es) Washington D. C.		26 115
3	Russian (ru) Вашингтон		23 149
4	Japanese (ja) ワシントンD.C.		21 300
5	German (de) Washington, D.C.		20 238
6	French (fr) Washington (district de Columbia)		19 950
7	Chinese (zh) 华盛顿哥伦比亚特区		13 229
8	Italian (it) Washington		13 132
9	Portuguese (pt) Washington, D.C.		10 853
10	Polish (pl) Waszyngton		8 270

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Washington, D.C.		2 555
2	German (de) Washington, D.C.		731
3	French (fr) Washington (district de Columbia)		513
4	Spanish (es) Washington D. C.		394
5	Russian (ru) Вашингтон		389
6	Italian (it) Washington		383
7	Dutch (nl) Washington D.C.		320
8	Japanese (ja) ワシントンD.C.		295
9	Chinese (zh) 华盛顿哥伦比亚特区		236
10	Hebrew (he) וושינגטון די. סי.		213

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) Washington, D.C.		10
2	Persian (fa) واشینگتن دی.سی.		9
3	Hebrew (he) וושינגטון די. סי.		5
4	Spanish (es) Washington D. C.		3
5	French (fr) Washington (district de Columbia)		3
6	Russian (ru) Вашингтон		3
7	Azerbaijani (az) Vaşinqton (şəhər)		2
8	Indonesian (id) Washington, D.C.		2
9	Italian (it) Washington		2
10	Korean (ko) 워싱턴 D.C.		2

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

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