Medan

Quality:

Medan - city in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. This city is the 1066^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 51^st most popular city in Malay Wikipedia. Article “Medan” in Malay Wikipedia has 52.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 11 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Malay Wikipedia:

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The 4946^th most popular in Malay Wikipedia.

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The 779^th most editable in Malay Wikipedia.

The 51^st most popular in cities in Malay Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1066^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Malay Wikipedia:

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The 7768^th most popular in Malay Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Medan”, its content was written by 33 registered users of Malay Wikipedia (779^th place) and edited by 1731 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Medan is on the 51^st place in local ranking of cities in Malay Wikipedia and on the 1066^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 515 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 10109 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #30 in December 2005
• Global: #596 in December 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #1009 in April 2008
• Global: #29221 in January 2026

There are 49 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	Indonesian (id) Kota Medan		83.2379
2	English (en) Medan		82.7363
3	Tamil (ta) மேடான்		76.0921
4	Belarusian (be) Медан		72.512
5	Thai (th) เมดัน		52.9535
6	Malay (ms) Medan		52.3783
7	German (de) Medan		47.4997
8	Simple English (simple) Medan		47.4692
9	Ukrainian (uk) Медан		46.7527
10	Georgian (ka) მედანი (ინდონეზია)		42.098

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Indonesian (id) Kota Medan		2 941 626
2	English (en) Medan		2 401 184
3	Chinese (zh) 棉蘭		295 126
4	German (de) Medan		220 958
5	Japanese (ja) メダン		199 566
6	Russian (ru) Медан		138 002
7	Dutch (nl) Medan (Indonesië)		123 528
8	French (fr) Medan		107 429
9	Spanish (es) Medan		101 725
10	Malay (ms) Medan		92 432

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) Medan		9 031
2	Indonesian (id) Kota Medan		6 819
3	Chinese (zh) 棉蘭		1 473
4	Japanese (ja) メダン		651
5	German (de) Medan		612
6	Russian (ru) Медан		489
7	Dutch (nl) Medan (Indonesië)		401
8	French (fr) Medan		366
9	Korean (ko) 메단		276
10	Spanish (es) Medan		261

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Medan		521
2	Indonesian (id) Kota Medan		302
3	German (de) Medan		118
4	Dutch (nl) Medan (Indonesië)		90
5	French (fr) Medan		70
6	Italian (it) Medan		48
7	Russian (ru) Медан		47
8	Chinese (zh) 棉蘭		43
9	Japanese (ja) メダン		41
10	Hungarian (hu) Medan		36

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) Medan		2
2	Arabic (ar) ميدان (سومطرة)		1
3	German (de) Medan		1
4	Indonesian (id) Kota Medan		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Medan		0
6	Belarusian (be) Медан		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Медан		0
8	Catalan (ca) Medan (Indonèsia)		0
9	Czech (cs) Medan		0
10	Danish (da) Medan		0

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