Benin City

Quality:

Benin City - capital city of Edo State, Nigeria. This city is the 2171^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 921^st most popular city in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Benin City” in Italian Wikipedia has 18.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Italian) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 921^st most popular in cities in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2171^st most popular in cities.

In June 2025 the article “Benin City” was edited by 2 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Benin City”, its content was written by 66 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 910 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Benin City is on the 921^st place in local ranking of cities in Italian Wikipedia and on the 2171^st place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 181 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 3062 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #1858 in September 2004
• Global: #8718 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #7972 in August 2024
• Global: #64294 in February 2023

There are 43 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	English (en) Benin City		91.3823
2	French (fr) Benin City		49.258
3	Spanish (es) Ciudad de Benín		40.806
4	Hebrew (he) בנין סיטי		35.9091
5	Hindi (hi) बेनिन शहर		35.69
6	Catalan (ca) Benin City		35.3639
7	Portuguese (pt) Cidade do Benim		32.3112
8	Latin (la) Beninum (urbs)		29.9996
9	German (de) Benin City		29.4124
10	Swedish (sv) Benin City		26.3102

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Benin City		2 062 101
2	German (de) Benin City		255 274
3	Italian (it) Benin City		242 924
4	French (fr) Benin City		158 625
5	Spanish (es) Ciudad de Benín		124 009
6	Russian (ru) Бенин-Сити		75 058
7	Portuguese (pt) Cidade do Benim		53 591
8	Polish (pl) Benin (miasto)		51 822
9	Dutch (nl) Benin City		47 095
10	Japanese (ja) ベニンシティ		35 056

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) Benin City		12 735
2	French (fr) Benin City		1 810
3	German (de) Benin City		1 144
4	Italian (it) Benin City		1 086
5	Spanish (es) Ciudad de Benín		808
6	Russian (ru) Бенин-Сити		492
7	Japanese (ja) ベニンシティ		275
8	Chinese (zh) 贝宁城		275
9	Portuguese (pt) Cidade do Benim		254
10	Arabic (ar) بنين (مدينة)		176

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Benin City		357
2	German (de) Benin City		90
3	French (fr) Benin City		87
4	Italian (it) Benin City		66
5	Dutch (nl) Benin City		37
6	Portuguese (pt) Cidade do Benim		22
7	Russian (ru) Бенин-Сити		22
8	Spanish (es) Ciudad de Benín		18
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thành phố Benin		18
10	Polish (pl) Benin (miasto)		13

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) Benin City		3
2	English (en) Benin City		2
3	Italian (it) Benin City		2
4	Arabic (ar) بنين (مدينة)		0
5	Belarusian (be) Бенін-Сіці		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Бенин (Нигерия)		0
7	Catalan (ca) Benin City		0
8	Czech (cs) Benin City		0
9	Danish (da) Benin City		0
10	German (de) Benin City		0

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

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