Canton

Quality:

Guangzhou - capital city of Guangdong Province, China. This city is the 113^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 324^th most popular city in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Canton” in Italian Wikipedia has 35.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 15 references and 20 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.89 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 324^th most popular in cities in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5408^th most popular in all topics.

The 3076^th most popular in AI.

The 113^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5465^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9739^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Canton”, its content was written by 149 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 4476 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3076^th place).

Guangzhou is on the 324^th place in local ranking of cities in Italian Wikipedia and on the 113^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 2154 times in Italian Wikipedia (3347^th place) and cited 64830 times in all languages (2609^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #2850 in January 2025
• Global: #620 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #6346 in May 2012
• Global: #1539 in May 2008

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, 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	Malay (ms) Guangzhou		100
2	Chinese (zh) 广州市		95.6617
3	Turkish (tr) Guangzhou		88.5741
4	Polish (pl) Kanton (Chiny)		87.9411
5	Portuguese (pt) Cantão (cidade)		85.1273
6	English (en) Guangzhou		79.1275
7	German (de) Guangzhou		67.3942
8	Catalan (ca) Canton		62.7468
9	Croatian (hr) Guangzhou		61.7927
10	Spanish (es) Cantón (China)		61.4016

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Guangzhou		18 721 580
2	Chinese (zh) 广州市		3 926 792
3	Russian (ru) Гуанчжоу		2 776 122
4	Japanese (ja) 広州市		2 609 725
5	Spanish (es) Cantón (China)		2 120 441
6	German (de) Guangzhou		2 078 119
7	French (fr) Canton (Chine)		1 560 083
8	Italian (it) Canton		887 608
9	Polish (pl) Kanton (Chiny)		807 070
10	Portuguese (pt) Cantão (cidade)		598 462

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) Guangzhou		72 656
2	Chinese (zh) 广州市		15 224
3	Russian (ru) Гуанчжоу		10 752
4	German (de) Guangzhou		7 031
5	Japanese (ja) 広州市		5 896
6	Spanish (es) Cantón (China)		5 522
7	Polish (pl) Kanton (Chiny)		4 714
8	French (fr) Canton (Chine)		4 065
9	Italian (it) Canton		2 908
10	Dutch (nl) Guangzhou		2 148

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Guangzhou		1 216
2	Chinese (zh) 广州市		618
3	German (de) Guangzhou		282
4	French (fr) Canton (Chine)		247
5	Japanese (ja) 広州市		168
6	Russian (ru) Гуанчжоу		163
7	Italian (it) Canton		149
8	Dutch (nl) Guangzhou		146
9	Spanish (es) Cantón (China)		127
10	Hebrew (he) גואנגג'ואו		101

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	Russian (ru) Гуанчжоу		5
2	English (en) Guangzhou		4
3	Chinese (zh) 广州市		4
4	German (de) Guangzhou		2
5	Catalan (ca) Canton		1
6	Spanish (es) Cantón (China)		1
7	French (fr) Canton (Chine)		1
8	Japanese (ja) 広州市		1
9	Korean (ko) 광저우시		1
10	Dutch (nl) Guangzhou		1

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

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