Cité interdite

Quality:

Forbidden City - Chinese imperial palace in Beijing. This building is the 33^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 90^th most popular building in French Wikipedia. Article “Cité interdite” in French Wikipedia has 40.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.14 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 9482^nd most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 90^th most popular in buildings in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6255^th most popular in all topics.

The 4898^th most popular in AI.

The 33^rd most popular in buildings.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6961^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Cité interdite” was edited by 1 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Cité interdite”, its content was written by 219 registered users of French Wikipedia (9482^nd place) and edited by 3576 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4898^th place).

Forbidden City is on the 90^th place in local ranking of buildings in French Wikipedia and on the 33^rd place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 643 times in French Wikipedia and cited 9976 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #811 in March 2013
• Global: #888 in January 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #1015 in March 2014
• Global: #1012 in August 2008

There are 53 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	Hungarian (hu) Tiltott Város		99.439
2	Catalan (ca) Ciutat Prohibida		96.4757
3	Ukrainian (uk) Заборонене місто		96.3153
4	Vietnamese (vi) Tử Cấm Thành		95.6652
5	English (en) Forbidden City		89.2426
6	Portuguese (pt) Cidade Proibida		87.9099
7	Russian (ru) Запретный город		83.7049
8	Romanian (ro) Orașul Interzis		77.5916
9	Spanish (es) Ciudad Prohibida		74.9823
10	Hebrew (he) העיר האסורה		74.5273

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Forbidden City		14 567 676
2	Chinese (zh) 故宫		3 579 575
3	German (de) Verbotene Stadt		2 188 078
4	Spanish (es) Ciudad Prohibida		2 174 080
5	Japanese (ja) 紫禁城		2 167 765
6	French (fr) Cité interdite		1 585 470
7	Russian (ru) Запретный город		1 457 883
8	Vietnamese (vi) Tử Cấm Thành		1 356 064
9	Italian (it) Città Proibita		923 942
10	Thai (th) พระราชวังต้องห้าม		789 391

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) Forbidden City		61 591
2	Chinese (zh) 故宫		17 180
3	Japanese (ja) 紫禁城		9 895
4	German (de) Verbotene Stadt		8 231
5	Russian (ru) Запретный город		7 866
6	Spanish (es) Ciudad Prohibida		6 150
7	French (fr) Cité interdite		5 046
8	Vietnamese (vi) Tử Cấm Thành		4 810
9	Italian (it) Città Proibita		3 776
10	Thai (th) พระราชวังต้องห้าม		2 874

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Forbidden City		1 011
2	Chinese (zh) 故宫		294
3	German (de) Verbotene Stadt		255
4	French (fr) Cité interdite		219
5	Italian (it) Città Proibita		131
6	Japanese (ja) 紫禁城		130
7	Dutch (nl) Verboden Stad		121
8	Vietnamese (vi) Tử Cấm Thành		103
9	Russian (ru) Запретный город		99
10	Hebrew (he) העיר האסורה		94

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	German (de) Verbotene Stadt		2
2	Vietnamese (vi) Tử Cấm Thành		2
3	Belarusian (be) Забаронены горад		1
4	French (fr) Cité interdite		1
5	Hebrew (he) העיר האסורה		1
6	Indonesian (id) Kota Terlarang		1
7	Georgian (ka) აკრძალული ქალაქი		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Cidade Proibida		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Заборонене місто		1
10	Chinese (zh) 故宫		1

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

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