Otaru

Otaru - city in Hokkaido, Japan. This city is the 2132^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities. Article “Otaru” in Malay Wikipedia has 37.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Otaru”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Malay Wikipedia and edited by 1001 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Otaru is on the 2132^nd place in global ranking of cities on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 5707 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #6906 in December 2025
• Global: #5658 in December 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #75515 in January 2026
• Global: #39182 in January 2026

There are 37 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	Chinese (zh) 小樽市		99.0201
2	Japanese (ja) 小樽市		87.8748
3	English (en) Otaru		56.6146
4	Polish (pl) Otaru		49.8528
5	Korean (ko) 오타루시		49.589
6	Catalan (ca) Otaru		43.8735
7	Finnish (fi) Otaru		43.6702
8	French (fr) Otaru		37.8308
9	Malay (ms) Otaru		37.6016
10	Hungarian (hu) Otaru		37.492

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Otaru" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 小樽市		2 046 389
2	English (en) Otaru		624 434
3	Chinese (zh) 小樽市		446 921
4	Korean (ko) 오타루시		83 959
5	German (de) Otaru		60 687
6	Russian (ru) Отару		59 420
7	Spanish (es) Otaru (Hokkaidō)		35 388
8	French (fr) Otaru		34 436
9	Polish (pl) Otaru		32 844
10	Thai (th) โอตารุ		25 892

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Otaru" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 小樽市		6 894
2	English (en) Otaru		3 422
3	Chinese (zh) 小樽市		1 806
4	Korean (ko) 오타루시		508
5	Russian (ru) Отару		227
6	German (de) Otaru		178
7	French (fr) Otaru		140
8	Spanish (es) Otaru (Hokkaidō)		116
9	Italian (it) Otaru		67
10	Finnish (fi) Otaru		58

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

Language versions of the article "Otaru" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 小樽市		370
2	English (en) Otaru		162
3	German (de) Otaru		55
4	French (fr) Otaru		51
5	Italian (it) Otaru		49
6	Chinese (zh) 小樽市		42
7	Russian (ru) Отару		35
8	Korean (ko) 오타루시		28
9	Polish (pl) Otaru		25
10	Spanish (es) Otaru (Hokkaidō)		21

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

Language versions of the article "Otaru" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Otaru (Hokkaidō)		2
2	Arabic (ar) أوتارو (هوكايدو)		1
3	English (en) Otaru		1
4	Japanese (ja) 小樽市		1
5	Dutch (nl) Otaru		1
6	Belarusian (be) Атару		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Отару		0
8	Catalan (ca) Otaru		0
9	Czech (cs) Otaru (Hokkaidó)		0
10	German (de) Otaru		0

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

Language versions of the article "Otaru" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 小樽市		2 516
2	English (en) Otaru		647
3	Indonesian (id) Otaru		320
4	Ukrainian (uk) Отару		287
5	Chinese (zh) 小樽市		240
6	Korean (ko) 오타루시		229
7	German (de) Otaru		195
8	Italian (it) Otaru		188
9	French (fr) Otaru		131
10	Catalan (ca) Otaru		101

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أوتارو (هوكايدو)
be	Belarusian Атару
bg	Bulgarian Отару
ca	Catalan Otaru
cs	Czech Otaru (Hokkaidó)
de	German Otaru
en	English Otaru
eo	Esperanto Otaru
es	Spanish Otaru (Hokkaidō)
eu	Basque Otaru (Hokkaido)
fa	Persian اوتارو، هوکایدو
fi	Finnish Otaru
fr	French Otaru
gl	Galician Otaru
hu	Hungarian Otaru
hy	Armenian Օտարու
id	Indonesian Otaru
it	Italian Otaru
ja	Japanese 小樽市
ko	Korean 오타루시
ms	Malay Otaru
nl	Dutch Otaru
no	Norwegian Otaru
pl	Polish Otaru
pt	Portuguese Otaru
ro	Romanian Otaru
ru	Russian Отару
sh	Serbo-Croatian Otaru
sr	Serbian Отару
sv	Swedish Otaru
th	Thai โอตารุ
tr	Turkish Otaru
uk	Ukrainian Отару
ur	Urdu اوٹارو
vi	Vietnamese Otaru
zh	Chinese 小樽市
zhminnan	Min Nan Otaru-chhī

Best Rank

Malay: #75515 01.2026

Global: #39182 01.2026

Best Rank

Malay: #6906 12.2025

Global: #5658 12.2023

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