Candia

Quality:

Heraklion - city in the island of Crete, Greece. This city is the 610^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 474^th most popular city in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Candia” in Italian Wikipedia has 39.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.07 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 474^th most popular in cities in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 610^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 7849^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Candia” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Candia”, its content was written by 151 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 2278 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Heraklion is on the 474^th place in local ranking of cities in Italian Wikipedia and on the 610^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 1384 times in Italian Wikipedia (6263^rd place) and cited 16510 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #1143 in November 2014
• Global: #2170 in April 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #7849 in June 2026
• Global: #15020 in July 2023

There are 51 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	Greek (el) Ηράκλειο		91.6705
2	German (de) Iraklio		69.235
3	English (en) Heraklion		68.9481
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Iráklio		64.2908
5	Finnish (fi) Iraklion		63.8456
6	Slovenian (sl) Iraklion		61.3698
7	Spanish (es) Heraclión		57.7301
8	French (fr) Héraklion		50.4138
9	Polish (pl) Heraklion		45.5867
10	Croatian (hr) Heraklion		43.9326

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Heraklion		3 956 028
2	German (de) Iraklio		1 160 201
3	Greek (el) Ηράκλειο		1 092 500
4	Russian (ru) Ираклион		864 430
5	French (fr) Héraklion		861 921
6	Polish (pl) Heraklion		620 099
7	Italian (it) Candia		618 255
8	Spanish (es) Heraclión		544 249
9	Dutch (nl) Iraklion (stad)		206 152
10	Czech (cs) Heráklion		158 724

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) Heraklion		21 127
2	German (de) Iraklio		6 052
3	Italian (it) Candia		5 615
4	French (fr) Héraklion		4 519
5	Polish (pl) Heraklion		4 216
6	Greek (el) Ηράκλειο		3 538
7	Russian (ru) Ираклион		2 463
8	Spanish (es) Heraclión		1 960
9	Czech (cs) Heráklion		1 528
10	Romanian (ro) Heraklion		1 410

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Heraklion		400
2	German (de) Iraklio		224
3	Greek (el) Ηράκλειο		202
4	French (fr) Héraklion		156
5	Italian (it) Candia		151
6	Russian (ru) Ираклион		99
7	Dutch (nl) Iraklion (stad)		94
8	Polish (pl) Heraklion		92
9	Spanish (es) Heraclión		77
10	Hungarian (hu) Iráklio		59

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	Arabic (ar) كاندية		1
2	Catalan (ca) Càndia		1
3	Hungarian (hu) Iráklio		1
4	Italian (it) Candia		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) İraklion		0
6	Belarusian (be) Іракліян		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Ираклио		0
8	Czech (cs) Heráklion		0
9	Danish (da) Iraklio		0
10	German (de) Iraklio		0

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

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