Lyon

Quality:

Lyon - city of France. This city is the 93^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 3^rd most popular city in French Wikipedia. Article “Lyon” in French Wikipedia has 91.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 467 references and 58 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 175^th most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 7^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 3^rd most popular in cities in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4440^th most popular in all topics.

The 1249^th most popular in AI.

The 93^rd most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 667^th most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 745^th most editable in French Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5353^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4623^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Lyon” was edited by 9 authors in French Wikipedia (745^th place) and written by 30 authors in all languages (4623^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Lyon”, its content was written by 1425 registered users of French Wikipedia (7^th place) and edited by 5907 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1249^th place).

Lyon is on the 3^rd place in local ranking of cities in French Wikipedia and on the 93^rd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 24060 times in French Wikipedia (541^st place) and cited 98117 times in all languages (1388^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #14 in July 2007
• Global: #379 in October 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #43 in May 2010
• Global: #2673 in June 2016

There are 55 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	German (de) Lyon		95.5825
2	French (fr) Lyon		91.5379
3	English (en) Lyon		85.2016
4	Vietnamese (vi) Lyon		71.4997
5	Catalan (ca) Lió		70.2894
6	Chinese (zh) 里昂		69.4694
7	Ukrainian (uk) Ліон		67.404
8	Spanish (es) Lyon		64.5128
9	Basque (eu) Lyon		64.2233
10	Bulgarian (bg) Лион		60.4681

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lyon		11 960 226
2	French (fr) Lyon		11 746 102
3	German (de) Lyon		3 626 261
4	Spanish (es) Lyon		2 734 300
5	Italian (it) Lione		2 289 586
6	Russian (ru) Лион		1 818 928
7	Japanese (ja) リヨン		1 140 408
8	Polish (pl) Lyon		1 068 539
9	Portuguese (pt) Lyon		989 167
10	Dutch (nl) Lyon		906 710

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) Lyon		52 913
2	French (fr) Lyon		36 914
3	German (de) Lyon		16 060
4	Russian (ru) Лион		9 386
5	Spanish (es) Lyon		7 984
6	Italian (it) Lione		7 060
7	Japanese (ja) リヨン		3 979
8	Chinese (zh) 里昂		3 805
9	Polish (pl) Lyon		3 728
10	Dutch (nl) Lyon		3 468

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Lyon		1 425
2	English (en) Lyon		972
3	German (de) Lyon		517
4	Italian (it) Lione		346
5	Dutch (nl) Lyon		247
6	Spanish (es) Lyon		204
7	Russian (ru) Лион		193
8	Hebrew (he) ליון		126
9	Japanese (ja) リヨン		114
10	Polish (pl) Lyon		111

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) Lyon		9
2	English (en) Lyon		5
3	Hebrew (he) ליון		3
4	Dutch (nl) Lyon		3
5	Russian (ru) Лион		3
6	German (de) Lyon		2
7	Arabic (ar) ليون		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Lion		1
9	Czech (cs) Lyon		1
10	Spanish (es) Lyon		1

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information