Yangon

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Yangon - former capital of Myanmar (Burma) and the current capital of Yangon Region. This city is the 444^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 352^nd most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Yangon” in English Wikipedia has 92.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 170 references and 42 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 352^nd most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9938^th most popular in AI.

The 444^th most popular in cities.

In June 2026 the article “Yangon” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Yangon”, its content was written by 655 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2576 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9938^th place).

Yangon is on the 352^nd place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 444^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 5404 times in English Wikipedia (4394^th place) and cited 18176 times in all languages (9564^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1947 in August 2023
• Global: #580 in May 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3232 in May 2008
• Global: #4191 in May 2008

There are 54 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	English (en) Yangon		92.7824
2	Greek (el) Γιανγκόν		91.397
3	Indonesian (id) Yangon		88.3448
4	Malay (ms) Yangon		82.6366
5	Chinese (zh) 仰光		76.3229
6	Dutch (nl) Yangon (stad)		75.3499
7	Ukrainian (uk) Янгон		73.9632
8	Slovenian (sl) Jangon		68.3549
9	Russian (ru) Янгон		67.1986
10	French (fr) Rangoun		64.777

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Yangon		8 211 511
2	Japanese (ja) ヤンゴン		1 098 830
3	German (de) Rangun		951 059
4	Chinese (zh) 仰光		637 109
5	Russian (ru) Янгон		615 471
6	French (fr) Rangoun		580 836
7	Spanish (es) Rangún		508 060
8	Italian (it) Yangon		338 289
9	Polish (pl) Rangun		324 433
10	Thai (th) ย่างกุ้ง		263 795

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) Yangon		25 931
2	Japanese (ja) ヤンゴン		2 701
3	Chinese (zh) 仰光		2 183
4	Russian (ru) Янгон		1 891
5	German (de) Rangun		1 598
6	Spanish (es) Rangún		1 390
7	Italian (it) Yangon		1 148
8	French (fr) Rangoun		939
9	Polish (pl) Rangun		751
10	Thai (th) ย่างกุ้ง		565

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Yangon		655
2	German (de) Rangun		175
3	French (fr) Rangoun		162
4	Russian (ru) Янгон		109
5	Italian (it) Yangon		98
6	Dutch (nl) Yangon (stad)		95
7	Japanese (ja) ヤンゴン		84
8	Chinese (zh) 仰光		78
9	Spanish (es) Rangún		66
10	Vietnamese (vi) Yangon		63

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) Yangon		4
2	Belarusian (be) Янгон		2
3	German (de) Rangun		1
4	Basque (eu) Yangon		1
5	French (fr) Rangoun		1
6	Serbian (sr) Рангун		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Yangon		1
8	Arabic (ar) يانغون		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Yanqon		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Янгон		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information