Essen

Quality:

Essen - city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This city is the 372^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 555^th most popular city in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Essen” in Italian Wikipedia has 35.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 24 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.92 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 555^th most popular in cities in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6225^th most popular in AI.

The 372^nd most popular in cities.

Since the creation of article “Essen”, its content was written by 134 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 3196 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6225^th place).

Essen is on the 555^th place in local ranking of cities in Italian Wikipedia and on the 372^nd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 2316 times in Italian Wikipedia (2907^th place) and cited 35158 times in all languages (4644^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #1115 in January 2005
• Global: #559 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #13172 in July 2012
• Global: #8541 in July 2008

There are 52 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	German (de) Essen		89.5947
2	English (en) Essen		75.1376
3	Ukrainian (uk) Ессен		63.2448
4	Esperanto (eo) Essen		59.9165
5	Polish (pl) Essen		58.4467
6	Czech (cs) Essen		54.2741
7	Hebrew (he) אסן		52.209
8	Swedish (sv) Essen		50.5206
9	Hungarian (hu) Essen (Észak-Rajna-Vesztfália)		49.1973
10	Russian (ru) Эссен		49.186

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Essen		7 411 062
2	English (en) Essen		4 009 043
3	Russian (ru) Эссен		728 628
4	Polish (pl) Essen		674 915
5	French (fr) Essen		606 416
6	Spanish (es) Essen		499 426
7	Italian (it) Essen		477 625
8	Dutch (nl) Essen (Noordrijn-Westfalen)		435 451
9	Japanese (ja) エッセン		254 138
10	Turkish (tr) Essen		200 498

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Essen		18 203
2	English (en) Essen		16 918
3	Russian (ru) Эссен		3 416
4	Italian (it) Essen		2 149
5	French (fr) Essen		2 111
6	Polish (pl) Essen		2 057
7	Spanish (es) Essen		1 859
8	Turkish (tr) Essen		1 765
9	Dutch (nl) Essen (Noordrijn-Westfalen)		1 491
10	Japanese (ja) エッセン		1 101

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Essen		1 032
2	English (en) Essen		422
3	French (fr) Essen		161
4	Dutch (nl) Essen (Noordrijn-Westfalen)		146
5	Italian (it) Essen		134
6	Russian (ru) Эссен		99
7	Spanish (es) Essen		73
8	Hebrew (he) אסן		67
9	Hungarian (hu) Essen (Észak-Rajna-Vesztfália)		59
10	Esperanto (eo) Essen		57

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	German (de) Essen		4
2	Azerbaijani (az) Essen		1
3	Czech (cs) Essen		1
4	Danish (da) Essen		1
5	Russian (ru) Эссен		1
6	Arabic (ar) إسن (ألمانيا)		0
7	Belarusian (be) Эсэн		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Есен (Германия)		0
9	Catalan (ca) Essen		0
10	Greek (el) Έσσεν		0

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

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