Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Quality:

Colombo - largest city and de facto capital of Sri Lanka. This city is the 429^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 694^th most popular city in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Colombo (Sri Lanka)” in Italian Wikipedia has 26.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.41 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 694^th most popular in cities in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9978^th most popular in AI.

The 429^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8096^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Colombo (Sri Lanka)” was edited by 2 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 23 authors in all languages (8096^th place).

Since the creation of article “Colombo (Sri Lanka)”, its content was written by 106 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 2527 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9978^th place).

Colombo is on the 694^th place in local ranking of cities in Italian Wikipedia and on the 429^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 650 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 24189 times in all languages (6788^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #3470 in November 2007
• Global: #1316 in November 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #1936 in June 2008
• Global: #4014 in April 2019

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	Tamil (ta) கொழும்பு		89.4445
2	English (en) Colombo		86.5444
3	Ukrainian (uk) Коломбо		83.3417
4	Slovenian (sl) Kolombo		80.3257
5	Spanish (es) Colombo		70.66
6	Portuguese (pt) Colombo		65.5879
7	Vietnamese (vi) Colombo		64.1285
8	Malay (ms) Colombo		63.6256
9	French (fr) Colombo		60.0811
10	Swedish (sv) Colombo		53.1105

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Colombo		7 950 206
2	German (de) Colombo		974 488
3	Russian (ru) Коломбо		850 021
4	French (fr) Colombo		795 606
5	Spanish (es) Colombo		689 935
6	Japanese (ja) コロンボ		632 733
7	Italian (it) Colombo (Sri Lanka)		364 927
8	Polish (pl) Kolombo		348 143
9	Chinese (zh) 可倫坡		320 614
10	Portuguese (pt) Colombo		310 522

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) Colombo		32 624
2	Russian (ru) Коломбо		3 420
3	Spanish (es) Colombo		2 739
4	German (de) Colombo		2 734
5	Japanese (ja) コロンボ		2 593
6	Chinese (zh) 可倫坡		2 237
7	French (fr) Colombo		2 232
8	Italian (it) Colombo (Sri Lanka)		1 699
9	Polish (pl) Kolombo		1 052
10	Portuguese (pt) Colombo		825

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Colombo		723
2	German (de) Colombo		179
3	French (fr) Colombo		152
4	Italian (it) Colombo (Sri Lanka)		106
5	Russian (ru) Коломбо		85
6	Dutch (nl) Colombo (stad)		81
7	Tamil (ta) கொழும்பு		75
8	Spanish (es) Colombo		67
9	Chinese (zh) 可倫坡		64
10	Norwegian (no) Colombo		55

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) Colombo		12
2	German (de) Colombo		3
3	Italian (it) Colombo (Sri Lanka)		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Kolombo		1
5	Catalan (ca) Colombo		1
6	Basque (eu) Kolonbo		1
7	French (fr) Colombo		1
8	Tamil (ta) கொழும்பு		1
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Colombo		1
10	Arabic (ar) كولمبو		0

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

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