Hōfu

Hōfu-shi - city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. This city is the 4520^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities. Article “Hōfu” in Finnish Wikipedia has 43 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 14 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Hōfu”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Finnish Wikipedia and edited by 544 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Hōfu-shi is on the 4520^th place in global ranking of cities on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 14 times in Finnish Wikipedia and cited 2069 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Finnish): #21711 in December 2019
• Global: #10215 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Finnish): #145099 in December 2019
• Global: #84327 in July 2009

There are 32 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) Hōfu		56.0797
2	Chinese (zh) 防府市		51.0537
3	Japanese (ja) 防府市		49.1285
4	Finnish (fi) Hōfu		43.0151
5	Catalan (ca) Hōfu		32.1466
6	Spanish (es) Hōfu		30.9057
7	German (de) Hōfu		30.7706
8	Russian (ru) Хофу		30.0102
9	Turkish (tr) Hōfu		29.1485
10	Polish (pl) Hōfu		28.3352

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 防府市		1 302 868
2	English (en) Hōfu		168 715
3	German (de) Hōfu		25 690
4	Chinese (zh) 防府市		22 626
5	Russian (ru) Хофу		22 173
6	Polish (pl) Hōfu		11 512
7	Korean (ko) 호후시		11 354
8	Portuguese (pt) Hōfu		7 199
9	Italian (it) Hōfu		5 505
10	Ukrainian (uk) Хофу		5 393

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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 "Hōfu" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 防府市		6 144
2	English (en) Hōfu		601
3	Chinese (zh) 防府市		202
4	German (de) Hōfu		61
5	Korean (ko) 호후시		47
6	Spanish (es) Hōfu		40
7	French (fr) Hōfu		29
8	Russian (ru) Хофу		29
9	Italian (it) Hōfu		28
10	Persian (fa) هوفو، یاماگوچی		24

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 防府市		196
2	English (en) Hōfu		64
3	German (de) Hōfu		39
4	Italian (it) Hōfu		30
5	Korean (ko) 호후시		25
6	Galician (gl) Hōfu		19
7	Russian (ru) Хофу		18
8	Vietnamese (vi) Hōfu, Yamaguchi		18
9	French (fr) Hōfu		17
10	Polish (pl) Hōfu		17

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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 "Hōfu" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) هوفا (ياماغوتشي)		1
2	French (fr) Hōfu		1
3	Japanese (ja) 防府市		1
4	Chinese (zh) 防府市		1
5	Catalan (ca) Hōfu		0
6	Czech (cs) Hófu		0
7	German (de) Hōfu		0
8	English (en) Hōfu		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Hofu		0
10	Spanish (es) Hōfu		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 "Hōfu" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 防府市		1 147
2	English (en) Hōfu		191
3	Chinese (zh) 防府市		121
4	Korean (ko) 호후시		89
5	French (fr) Hōfu		68
6	German (de) Hōfu		47
7	Italian (it) Hōfu		40
8	Russian (ru) Хофу		38
9	Polish (pl) Hōfu		34
10	Ukrainian (uk) Хофу		34

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic هوفا (ياماغوتشي)
ca	Catalan Hōfu
cs	Czech Hófu
de	German Hōfu
en	English Hōfu
eo	Esperanto Hofu
es	Spanish Hōfu
et	Estonian Hōfu
fa	Persian هوفو، یاماگوچی
fi	Finnish Hōfu
fr	French Hōfu
gl	Galician Hōfu
id	Indonesian Hōfu, Yamaguchi
it	Italian Hōfu
ja	Japanese 防府市
kk	Kazakh Хофу
ko	Korean 호후시
nl	Dutch Hofu
no	Norwegian Hōfu
pl	Polish Hōfu
pt	Portuguese Hōfu
ro	Romanian Hōfu
ru	Russian Хофу
sh	Serbo-Croatian Hofu
simple	Simple English Hōfu
sr	Serbian Хофу
sv	Swedish Hōfu
tr	Turkish Hōfu
uk	Ukrainian Хофу
vi	Vietnamese Hōfu, Yamaguchi
zh	Chinese 防府市
zhminnan	Min Nan Hôhu-chhī

Best Rank

Finnish: #145099 12.2019

Global: #84327 07.2009

Best Rank

Finnish: #21711 12.2019

Global: #10215 09.2012

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