Canton

Quality:

Guangzhou - capital city of Guangdong Province, China. This city is the 115^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 323^rd most popular city in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Canton” in Italian Wikipedia has 36 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 20 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.9 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 323^rd most popular in cities in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5575^th most popular in all topics.

The 3140^th most popular in AI.

The 115^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5521^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3800^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Canton”, its content was written by 146 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 4393 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3140^th place).

Guangzhou is on the 323^rd place in local ranking of cities in Italian Wikipedia and on the 115^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 1994 times in Italian Wikipedia (3592^nd place) and cited 61444 times in all languages (2645^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #2852 in January 2025
• Global: #619 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #6320 in May 2012
• Global: #1557 in May 2008

There are 54 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	Chinese (zh) 广州市		95.4825
2	Turkish (tr) Guangzhou		88.5195
3	Polish (pl) Kanton (Chiny)		88.0393
4	Portuguese (pt) Cantão (cidade)		85.6698
5	English (en) Guangzhou		83.9121
6	German (de) Guangzhou		64.2543
7	Catalan (ca) Canton		62.7015
8	Spanish (es) Cantón (China)		62.1189
9	Croatian (hr) Guangzhou		61.8689
10	Malay (ms) Guangzhou		60.5362

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Guangzhou		17 676 165
2	Chinese (zh) 广州市		3 672 768
3	Japanese (ja) 広州市		2 521 514
4	Russian (ru) Гуанчжоу		2 438 631
5	Spanish (es) Cantón (China)		2 020 458
6	German (de) Guangzhou		1 972 117
7	French (fr) Canton (Chine)		1 488 998
8	Italian (it) Canton		839 682
9	Polish (pl) Kanton (Chiny)		742 374
10	Vietnamese (vi) Quảng Châu		616 221

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		78 765
2	Chinese (zh) 广州市		19 240
3	Russian (ru) Гуанчжоу		10 893
4	Spanish (es) Cantón (China)		7 855
5	Japanese (ja) 広州市		7 561
6	German (de) Guangzhou		6 146
7	French (fr) Canton (Chine)		4 771
8	Polish (pl) Kanton (Chiny)		3 399
9	Italian (it) Canton		3 121
10	Vietnamese (vi) Quảng Châu		3 062

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Guangzhou		1 162
2	Chinese (zh) 广州市		605
3	German (de) Guangzhou		276
4	French (fr) Canton (Chine)		242
5	Japanese (ja) 広州市		161
6	Russian (ru) Гуанчжоу		157
7	Italian (it) Canton		146
8	Dutch (nl) Guangzhou		144
9	Spanish (es) Cantón (China)		122
10	Hebrew (he) גואנגג'ואו		99

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) Guangzhou		13
2	Dutch (nl) Guangzhou		4
3	Spanish (es) Cantón (China)		3
4	Polish (pl) Kanton (Chiny)		2
5	Thai (th) กว่างโจว		2
6	Azerbaijani (az) Quançjou		1
7	German (de) Guangzhou		1
8	Persian (fa) گوانگ‌ژوو		1
9	Croatian (hr) Guangzhou		1
10	Hungarian (hu) Kanton (település)		1

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

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