Sofia

Quality:

Sofia - capital city of Bulgaria. This city is the 175^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 148^th most popular city in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Sofia” in Italian Wikipedia has 87.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 315 references and 43 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.61 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 6353^rd most popular in Italian Wikipedia.

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The 3485^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

The 148^th most popular in cities in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7848^th most popular in all topics.

The 1946^th most popular in AI.

The 175^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 9572^nd most popular in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9504^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5883^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Sofia” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 27 authors in all languages (5883^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Sofia”, its content was written by 242 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (3485^th place) and edited by 5131 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1946^th place).

Sofia is on the 148^th place in local ranking of cities in Italian Wikipedia and on the 175^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 4899 times in Italian Wikipedia (1332^nd place) and cited 104496 times in all languages (1342^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #846 in September 2025
• Global: #172 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #2725 in December 2025
• Global: #3984 in December 2025

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	Bulgarian (bg) София		95.7256
2	English (en) Sofia		92.9726
3	Arabic (ar) صوفيا		92.5618
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Sofia		91.9408
5	Italian (it) Sofia		87.5723
6	Chinese (zh) 索菲亞		87.4571
7	Persian (fa) صوفیه		86.9274
8	Catalan (ca) Sofia		86.1366
9	German (de) Sofia		79.6932
10	Slovenian (sl) Sofija		79.1567

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sofia		10 745 538
2	Bulgarian (bg) София		4 026 496
3	German (de) Sofia		2 419 191
4	Russian (ru) София		2 301 967
5	Spanish (es) Sofía		2 149 289
6	Italian (it) Sofia		1 823 868
7	French (fr) Sofia		1 356 469
8	Polish (pl) Sofia		1 066 331
9	Turkish (tr) Sofya		573 951
10	Japanese (ja) ソフィア (ブルガリア)		503 756

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) Sofia		37 763
2	Bulgarian (bg) София		11 080
3	Russian (ru) София		7 513
4	German (de) Sofia		6 346
5	Spanish (es) Sofía		5 305
6	Polish (pl) Sofia		4 908
7	Italian (it) Sofia		4 857
8	French (fr) Sofia		3 581
9	Turkish (tr) Sofya		1 705
10	Chinese (zh) 索菲亞		1 519

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sofia		1 047
2	German (de) Sofia		407
3	Bulgarian (bg) София		389
4	French (fr) Sofia		285
5	Italian (it) Sofia		242
6	Russian (ru) София		239
7	Spanish (es) Sofía		237
8	Dutch (nl) Sofia (stad)		165
9	Polish (pl) Sofia		127
10	Japanese (ja) ソフィア (ブルガリア)		116

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	Bulgarian (bg) София		7
2	English (en) Sofia		4
3	Danish (da) Sofia		2
4	Hebrew (he) סופיה		2
5	Turkish (tr) Sofya		2
6	Esperanto (eo) Sofio		1
7	Spanish (es) Sofía		1
8	Persian (fa) صوفیه		1
9	French (fr) Sofia		1
10	Italian (it) Sofia		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information