Louvain

Quality:

Leuven - capital city of Flemish Brabant, Belgium. This city is the 679^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 398^th most popular city in French Wikipedia. Article “Louvain” in French Wikipedia has 54.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 36 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 8925^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 398^th most popular in cities in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 679^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 8503^rd most editable in French Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Louvain” was edited by 3 authors in French Wikipedia (8503^rd place) and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Louvain”, its content was written by 225 registered users of French Wikipedia (8925^th place) and edited by 2393 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Leuven is on the 398^th place in local ranking of cities in French Wikipedia and on the 679^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 3465 times in French Wikipedia (3672^nd place) and cited 23578 times in all languages (6957^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #1223 in May 2005
• Global: #2156 in March 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #4273 in September 2021
• Global: #21385 in September 2021

There are 46 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	Dutch (nl) Leuven		79.3414
2	English (en) Leuven		67.8608
3	German (de) Löwen		61.4116
4	Slovenian (sl) Leuven		56.1399
5	French (fr) Louvain		54.5897
6	Chinese (zh) 鲁汶		52.3725
7	Italian (it) Lovanio		50.0652
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Leuven		49.5105
9	Croatian (hr) Leuven		43.3151
10	Hungarian (hu) Leuven		42.3733

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Leuven		3 365 019
2	Dutch (nl) Leuven		1 475 930
3	German (de) Löwen		1 278 961
4	French (fr) Louvain		898 024
5	Spanish (es) Lovaina		641 149
6	Italian (it) Lovanio		608 254
7	Polish (pl) Leuven		376 655
8	Russian (ru) Лёвен		285 841
9	Portuguese (pt) Lovaina		152 327
10	Japanese (ja) ルーヴェン		140 859

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) Leuven		13 861
2	German (de) Löwen		5 276
3	Dutch (nl) Leuven		5 221
4	French (fr) Louvain		3 790
5	Italian (it) Lovanio		3 661
6	Spanish (es) Lovaina		1 953
7	Russian (ru) Лёвен		1 580
8	Polish (pl) Leuven		1 082
9	Chinese (zh) 鲁汶		981
10	Japanese (ja) ルーヴェン		711

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Leuven		415
2	Dutch (nl) Leuven		384
3	German (de) Löwen		290
4	French (fr) Louvain		225
5	Italian (it) Lovanio		119
6	Spanish (es) Lovaina		87
7	Russian (ru) Лёвен		66
8	Hungarian (hu) Leuven		64
9	Polish (pl) Leuven		64
10	Esperanto (eo) Loveno		46

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	French (fr) Louvain		3
2	Dutch (nl) Leuven		3
3	German (de) Löwen		2
4	Chinese (zh) 鲁汶		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Löven		1
6	Catalan (ca) Lovaina		1
7	English (en) Leuven		1
8	Arabic (ar) لوفن		0
9	Belarusian (be) Лёвен		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Льовен		0

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

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