Baku

Quality:

Baku - capital of Azerbaijan. This city is the 117^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 220^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Baku” in Simple English Wikipedia has 34.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.83 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4926^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 220^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5637^th most popular in all topics.

The 1546^th most popular in AI.

The 117^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5312^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4335^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Baku”, its content was written by 35 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4926^th place) and edited by 5492 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1546^th place).

Baku is on the 220^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 117^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 338 times in Simple English Wikipedia (8944^th place) and cited 93720 times in all languages (1491^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #293 in November 2006
• Global: #72 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2445 in May 2022
• Global: #323 in June 2016

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	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		100
2	Uzbek (uz) Boku		100
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Baku		100
4	Arabic (ar) باكو		96.7919
5	Russian (ru) Баку		95
6	English (en) Baku		92.4649
7	Slovenian (sl) Baku		89.6547
8	Turkish (tr) Bakü		86.9769
9	Spanish (es) Bakú		86.8491
10	Georgian (ka) ბაქო		80.2018

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Baku		13 258 381
2	Russian (ru) Баку		5 758 585
3	German (de) Baku		2 821 153
4	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		1 880 998
5	Spanish (es) Bakú		1 733 160
6	Italian (it) Baku		1 656 088
7	Polish (pl) Baku		1 267 883
8	French (fr) Bakou		1 254 005
9	Persian (fa) باکو		1 065 220
10	Turkish (tr) Bakü		945 616

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) Baku		79 007
2	Russian (ru) Баку		21 371
3	German (de) Baku		6 678
4	Spanish (es) Bakú		5 700
5	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		5 657
6	Polish (pl) Baku		5 256
7	Persian (fa) باکو		4 604
8	Italian (it) Baku		4 223
9	French (fr) Bakou		4 130
10	Turkish (tr) Bakü		3 774

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Baku		1 084
2	Russian (ru) Баку		443
3	German (de) Baku		361
4	French (fr) Bakou		275
5	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		250
6	Italian (it) Baku		240
7	Dutch (nl) Bakoe		199
8	Turkish (tr) Bakü		195
9	Spanish (es) Bakú		168
10	Persian (fa) باکو		164

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) Baku		7
2	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		4
3	Hebrew (he) באקו		3
4	Russian (ru) Баку		3
5	German (de) Baku		2
6	Persian (fa) باکو		2
7	French (fr) Bakou		2
8	Catalan (ca) Bakú		1
9	Czech (cs) Baku		1
10	Spanish (es) Bakú		1

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

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