Rio de Janeiro

Quality:

Rio de Janeiro - capital and largest city of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This city is the 29^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 81^st most popular city in French Wikipedia. Article “Rio de Janeiro” in French Wikipedia has 86.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 166 references and 67 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.55 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 2740^th most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 906^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 81^st most popular in cities in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1310^th most popular in all topics.

The 618^th most popular in AI.

The 29^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 7987^th most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3721^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3580^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Rio de Janeiro”, its content was written by 518 registered users of French Wikipedia (906^th place) and edited by 7517 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (618^th place).

Rio de Janeiro is on the 81^st place in local ranking of cities in French Wikipedia and on the 29^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 11856 times in French Wikipedia (958^th place) and cited 186792 times in all languages (589^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #99 in October 2009
• Global: #7 in October 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #103 in August 2016
• Global: #33 in August 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	Georgian (ka) რიო-დე-ჟანეირო		100
2	Spanish (es) Río de Janeiro		98.5608
3	Portuguese (pt) Rio de Janeiro		98.3951
4	English (en) Rio de Janeiro		87.7561
5	Chinese (zh) 里约热内卢		87.0678
6	French (fr) Rio de Janeiro		86.3985
7	Esperanto (eo) Rio-de-Ĵanejro		85.1182
8	German (de) Rio de Janeiro		84.151
9	Slovenian (sl) Rio de Janeiro		80.8534
10	Russian (ru) Рио-де-Жанейро		76.7763

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rio de Janeiro		27 394 604
2	Portuguese (pt) Rio de Janeiro		18 705 542
3	Spanish (es) Río de Janeiro		6 861 529
4	German (de) Rio de Janeiro		4 757 491
5	French (fr) Rio de Janeiro		3 586 949
6	Russian (ru) Рио-де-Жанейро		3 309 079
7	Italian (it) Rio de Janeiro		2 331 402
8	Japanese (ja) リオデジャネイロ		2 181 053
9	Polish (pl) Rio de Janeiro		1 593 889
10	Dutch (nl) Rio de Janeiro (stad)		1 056 622

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) Rio de Janeiro		78 905
2	Portuguese (pt) Rio de Janeiro		36 135
3	Spanish (es) Río de Janeiro		16 606
4	German (de) Rio de Janeiro		10 504
5	Italian (it) Rio de Janeiro		9 951
6	Russian (ru) Рио-де-Жанейро		9 887
7	French (fr) Rio de Janeiro		8 320
8	Japanese (ja) リオデジャネイロ		5 643
9	Chinese (zh) 里约热内卢		3 966
10	Polish (pl) Rio de Janeiro		3 302

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rio de Janeiro		1 888
2	Portuguese (pt) Rio de Janeiro		611
3	German (de) Rio de Janeiro		564
4	French (fr) Rio de Janeiro		518
5	Spanish (es) Río de Janeiro		425
6	Italian (it) Rio de Janeiro		320
7	Dutch (nl) Rio de Janeiro (stad)		279
8	Russian (ru) Рио-де-Жанейро		246
9	Japanese (ja) リオデジャネイロ		177
10	Hebrew (he) ריו דה ז'ניירו		162

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) Rio de Janeiro		6
2	Portuguese (pt) Rio de Janeiro		5
3	Hebrew (he) ריו דה ז'ניירו		3
4	Italian (it) Rio de Janeiro		3
5	Esperanto (eo) Rio-de-Ĵanejro		2
6	Spanish (es) Río de Janeiro		2
7	Armenian (hy) Ռիո դե Ժանեյրո		2
8	Dutch (nl) Rio de Janeiro (stad)		2
9	Azerbaijani (az) Rio-de-Janeyro		1
10	Bulgarian (bg) Рио де Жанейро		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