Pau

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Pau - city and commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. This city is the 809^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 71^st most popular city in French Wikipedia. Article “Pau” in French Wikipedia has 97.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 573 references and 71 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 2381^st most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 490^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 71^st most popular in cities in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 809^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 3114^th most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 8233^rd most editable in French Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Pau” was edited by 3 authors in French Wikipedia (8233^rd place) and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Pau”, its content was written by 629 registered users of French Wikipedia (490^th place) and edited by 2052 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Pau is on the 71^st place in local ranking of cities in French Wikipedia and on the 809^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 5606 times in French Wikipedia (2382^nd place) and cited 24054 times in all languages (6829^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #26 in December 2006
• Global: #1394 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #388 in December 2024
• Global: #16647 in December 2024

There are 52 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	French (fr) Pau		97.6313
2	Chinese (zh) 波城		93.2789
3	Basque (eu) Paue		64.4848
4	English (en) Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques		56.8983
5	German (de) Pau		52.8868
6	Simple English (simple) Pau, France		50.1755
7	Russian (ru) По (город)		49.4201
8	Greek (el) Πω		48.3696
9	Armenian (hy) Պո (քաղաք)		46.2504
10	Estonian (et) Pau		44.4419

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Pau		3 852 710
2	English (en) Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques		2 066 217
3	Spanish (es) Pau (Francia)		762 942
4	German (de) Pau		493 853
5	Italian (it) Pau (Francia)		311 179
6	Russian (ru) По (город)		211 312
7	Dutch (nl) Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)		145 374
8	Japanese (ja) ポー		129 868
9	Swedish (sv) Pau		109 667
10	Portuguese (pt) Pau (Pirenéus Atlânticos)		101 730

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Pau		15 469
2	English (en) Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques		10 622
3	Spanish (es) Pau (Francia)		3 379
4	German (de) Pau		2 849
5	Italian (it) Pau (Francia)		1 949
6	Russian (ru) По (город)		1 088
7	Dutch (nl) Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)		915
8	Portuguese (pt) Pau (Pirenéus Atlânticos)		681
9	Greek (el) Πω		625
10	Czech (cs) Pau (Francie)		598

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Pau		629
2	English (en) Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques		303
3	German (de) Pau		181
4	Italian (it) Pau (Francia)		101
5	Spanish (es) Pau (Francia)		79
6	Dutch (nl) Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)		64
7	Russian (ru) По (город)		63
8	Norwegian (no) Pau		50
9	Portuguese (pt) Pau (Pirenéus Atlânticos)		45
10	Japanese (ja) ポー		44

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) Pau		3
2	Azerbaijani (az) Po (Atlantik Pireney)		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) По (град)		1
4	Catalan (ca) Pau (Occitània)		1
5	Spanish (es) Pau (Francia)		1
6	Galician (gl) Pau, Francia		1
7	Georgian (ka) პო (საფრანგეთი)		1
8	Serbian (sr) По (град)		1
9	Arabic (ar) بو (فرنسا)		0
10	Belarusian (be) По (горад)		0

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

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