Pau

Quality:

Pau - city and commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. This city is the 808^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 70^th most popular city in French Wikipedia. Article “Pau” in French Wikipedia has 97.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 590 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 2340^th most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 484^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 70^th most popular in cities in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 808^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 2303^rd most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Pau” was edited by 2 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Pau”, its content was written by 645 registered users of French Wikipedia (484^th place) and edited by 2081 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Pau is on the 70^th place in local ranking of cities in French Wikipedia and on the 808^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 5748 times in French Wikipedia (2405^th place) and cited 24988 times in all languages (6770^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #26 in December 2006
• Global: #1397 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #388 in December 2024
• Global: #16632 in December 2024

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, 2026 (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		97.4741
2	Chinese (zh) 波城		93.2587
3	Basque (eu) Paue		64.3138
4	German (de) Pau		56.2995
5	English (en) Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques		52.9529
6	Russian (ru) По (город)		49.4582
7	Greek (el) Πω		48.5635
8	Simple English (simple) Pau, France		48.2081
9	Armenian (hy) Պո (քաղաք)		46.2003
10	Estonian (et) Pau		43.928

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Pau		4 092 411
2	English (en) Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques		2 189 880
3	Spanish (es) Pau (Francia)		810 820
4	German (de) Pau		527 162
5	Italian (it) Pau (Francia)		343 723
6	Russian (ru) По (город)		229 982
7	Dutch (nl) Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)		154 879
8	Polish (pl) Pau		146 433
9	Japanese (ja) ポー		135 061
10	Swedish (sv) Pau		119 928

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		17 841
2	English (en) Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques		8 983
3	Spanish (es) Pau (Francia)		3 048
4	German (de) Pau		2 565
5	Italian (it) Pau (Francia)		1 946
6	Russian (ru) По (город)		995
7	Dutch (nl) Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)		955
8	Polish (pl) Pau		678
9	Greek (el) Πω		669
10	Portuguese (pt) Pau (Pirenéus Atlânticos)		579

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Pau		645
2	English (en) Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques		315
3	German (de) Pau		185
4	Italian (it) Pau (Francia)		105
5	Spanish (es) Pau (Francia)		82
6	Dutch (nl) Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)		66
7	Russian (ru) По (город)		64
8	Portuguese (pt) Pau (Pirenéus Atlânticos)		46
9	Japanese (ja) ポー		44
10	Vietnamese (vi) Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques		35

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	English (en) Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques		3
2	French (fr) Pau		2
3	Italian (it) Pau (Francia)		2
4	Arabic (ar) بو (فرنسا)		1
5	Catalan (ca) Pau (Occitània)		1
6	Basque (eu) Paue		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Po (Atlantik Pireney)		0
8	Belarusian (be) По (горад)		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) По (град)		0
10	Czech (cs) Pau (Francie)		0

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

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