Sofia (stad)

Quality:

Sofia - capital city of Bulgaria. This city is the 173^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 261^st most popular city in Dutch Wikipedia. Article “Sofia (stad)” in Dutch Wikipedia has 40.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 12 sections.

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:

Dutch Wikipedia:

nl

The 8567^th most popular in Dutch Wikipedia.

nl

The 3778^th most editable in Dutch Wikipedia.

The 261^st most popular in cities in Dutch Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7997^th most popular in all topics.

The 1923^rd most popular in AI.

The 173^rd most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Dutch Wikipedia:

nl

The 8690^th most popular in Dutch Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9627^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4624^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Sofia (stad)”, its content was written by 164 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia (3778^th place) and edited by 5092 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1923^rd place).

Sofia is on the 261^st place in local ranking of cities in Dutch Wikipedia and on the 173^rd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 2596 times in Dutch Wikipedia (1242^nd place) and cited 100215 times in all languages (1356^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #554 in July 2018
• Global: #171 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #3015 in July 2017
• Global: #4549 in July 2009

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, 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	Bulgarian (bg) София		96.9214
2	English (en) Sofia		92.9299
3	Arabic (ar) صوفيا		92.8022
4	Italian (it) Sofia		92.5734
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Sofia		91.9408
6	Chinese (zh) 索菲亞		87.4794
7	Catalan (ca) Sofia		85.9852
8	German (de) Sofia		80.5459
9	Slovenian (sl) Sofija		79.6237
10	Spanish (es) Sofía		77.8911

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sofia		10 222 666
2	Bulgarian (bg) София		3 866 306
3	German (de) Sofia		2 306 738
4	Spanish (es) Sofía		2 070 981
5	Russian (ru) София		2 059 072
6	Italian (it) Sofia		1 724 995
7	French (fr) Sofia		1 283 396
8	Polish (pl) Sofia		997 427
9	Turkish (tr) Sofya		549 589
10	Japanese (ja) ソフィア (ブルガリア)		482 261

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		43 685
2	Bulgarian (bg) София		12 666
3	Russian (ru) София		7 749
4	German (de) Sofia		6 695
5	Spanish (es) Sofía		5 838
6	Italian (it) Sofia		5 313
7	French (fr) Sofia		4 108
8	Polish (pl) Sofia		3 879
9	Chinese (zh) 索菲亞		2 240
10	Turkish (tr) Sofya		2 023

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sofia		1 021
2	German (de) Sofia		397
3	Bulgarian (bg) София		378
4	French (fr) Sofia		279
5	Russian (ru) София		240
6	Spanish (es) Sofía		229
7	Italian (it) Sofia		229
8	Dutch (nl) Sofia (stad)		164
9	Polish (pl) Sofia		126
10	Japanese (ja) ソフィア (ブルガリア)		115

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		10
2	English (en) Sofia		7
3	Russian (ru) София		3
4	Arabic (ar) صوفيا		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Sofiya		1
6	Catalan (ca) Sofia		1
7	Spanish (es) Sofía		1
8	Hebrew (he) סופיה		1
9	Italian (it) Sofia		1
10	Japanese (ja) ソフィア (ブルガリア)		1

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

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