Benin City

Benin City - capital city of Edo State, Nigeria. This city is the 2171^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities. Article “Benin City” in French Wikipedia has 49.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 47 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.59 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Benin City” was edited by 3 authors in French Wikipedia (8831^st place) and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Benin City”, its content was written by 87 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 910 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Benin City is on the 2171^st place in global ranking of cities on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 207 times in French Wikipedia and cited 3062 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #4703 in April 2019
• Global: #8718 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #44553 in May 2025
• Global: #64294 in February 2023

There are 43 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	English (en) Benin City		91.3823
2	French (fr) Benin City		49.258
3	Spanish (es) Ciudad de Benín		40.806
4	Hebrew (he) בנין סיטי		35.9091
5	Hindi (hi) बेनिन शहर		35.69
6	Catalan (ca) Benin City		35.3639
7	Portuguese (pt) Cidade do Benim		32.3112
8	Latin (la) Beninum (urbs)		29.9996
9	German (de) Benin City		29.4124
10	Swedish (sv) Benin City		26.3102

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Benin City		2 062 101
2	German (de) Benin City		255 274
3	Italian (it) Benin City		242 924
4	French (fr) Benin City		158 625
5	Spanish (es) Ciudad de Benín		124 009
6	Russian (ru) Бенин-Сити		75 058
7	Portuguese (pt) Cidade do Benim		53 591
8	Polish (pl) Benin (miasto)		51 822
9	Dutch (nl) Benin City		47 095
10	Japanese (ja) ベニンシティ		35 056

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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 "Benin City" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Benin City		12 735
2	French (fr) Benin City		1 810
3	German (de) Benin City		1 144
4	Italian (it) Benin City		1 086
5	Spanish (es) Ciudad de Benín		808
6	Russian (ru) Бенин-Сити		492
7	Japanese (ja) ベニンシティ		275
8	Chinese (zh) 贝宁城		275
9	Portuguese (pt) Cidade do Benim		254
10	Arabic (ar) بنين (مدينة)		176

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Benin City		357
2	German (de) Benin City		90
3	French (fr) Benin City		87
4	Italian (it) Benin City		66
5	Dutch (nl) Benin City		37
6	Portuguese (pt) Cidade do Benim		22
7	Russian (ru) Бенин-Сити		22
8	Spanish (es) Ciudad de Benín		18
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thành phố Benin		18
10	Polish (pl) Benin (miasto)		13

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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 "Benin City" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Benin City		3
2	English (en) Benin City		2
3	Italian (it) Benin City		2
4	Arabic (ar) بنين (مدينة)		0
5	Belarusian (be) Бенін-Сіці		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Бенин (Нигерия)		0
7	Catalan (ca) Benin City		0
8	Czech (cs) Benin City		0
9	Danish (da) Benin City		0
10	German (de) Benin City		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 "Benin City" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Benin City		1 124
2	French (fr) Benin City		207
3	Italian (it) Benin City		181
4	German (de) Benin City		167
5	Ukrainian (uk) Бенін-Сіті		145
6	Spanish (es) Ciudad de Benín		127
7	Portuguese (pt) Cidade do Benim		108
8	Russian (ru) Бенин-Сити		100
9	Arabic (ar) بنين (مدينة)		82
10	Catalan (ca) Benin City		65

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic بنين (مدينة)
be	Belarusian Бенін-Сіці
bg	Bulgarian Бенин (Нигерия)
ca	Catalan Benin City
cs	Czech Benin City
da	Danish Benin City
de	German Benin City
en	English Benin City
eo	Esperanto Beninurbo
es	Spanish Ciudad de Benín
eu	Basque Benin City
fa	Persian بنین (شهر)
fi	Finnish Benin City
fr	French Benin City
gl	Galician Benin City
he	Hebrew בנין סיטי
hi	Hindi बेनिन शहर
hr	Croatian Benin City
hu	Hungarian Benin City
hy	Armenian Բենին Սիթի
id	Indonesian Kota Benin
it	Italian Benin City
ja	Japanese ベニンシティ
ka	Georgian ბენინ-სითი
ko	Korean 베닌시티
la	Latin Beninum (urbs)
lt	Lithuanian Beninas (miestas)
nl	Dutch Benin City
no	Norwegian Benin City
pl	Polish Benin (miasto)
pt	Portuguese Cidade do Benim
ro	Romanian Benin City
ru	Russian Бенин-Сити
simple	Simple English Benin City
sv	Swedish Benin City
ta	Tamil பெனின் நகரம்
th	Thai เบนินซิตี
tr	Turkish Benin City
uk	Ukrainian Бенін-Сіті
ur	Urdu بینن شہر
uz	Uzbek Benin-siti
vi	Vietnamese Thành phố Benin
zh	Chinese 贝宁城

Best Rank

French: #44553 05.2025

Global: #64294 02.2023

Best Rank

French: #4703 04.2019

Global: #8718 09.2009

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