Baku

Quality:

Baku - capital of Azerbaijan. This city is the 115^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 27.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 2 sections.

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 9210^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 5016^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 5534^th most popular in all topics.

The 1547^th most popular in AI.

The 115^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4855^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8710^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8370^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Baku”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5016^th place) and edited by 5562 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1547^th place).

Baku is on the 220^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 115^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 350 times in Simple English Wikipedia (8201^st place) and cited 98493 times in all languages (1445^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #294 in November 2006
• Global: #73 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1052 in January 2026
• Global: #324 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, 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	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		100
2	Uzbek (uz) Boku		100
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Baku		100
4	Arabic (ar) باكو		96.7169
5	Russian (ru) Баку		94.7916
6	Slovenian (sl) Baku		89.3089
7	English (en) Baku		88.3687
8	Turkish (tr) Bakü		86.753
9	Spanish (es) Bakú		85.6176
10	German (de) Baku		85.5738

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Baku		13 902 616
2	Russian (ru) Баку		6 250 784
3	German (de) Baku		2 922 165
4	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		1 963 682
5	Spanish (es) Bakú		1 809 962
6	Italian (it) Baku		1 729 900
7	Polish (pl) Baku		1 338 396
8	French (fr) Bakou		1 315 108
9	Persian (fa) باکو		1 114 209
10	Turkish (tr) Bakü		991 415

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		43 597
2	Russian (ru) Баку		14 955
3	German (de) Baku		5 580
4	Polish (pl) Baku		3 835
5	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		3 598
6	Spanish (es) Bakú		3 590
7	Persian (fa) باکو		3 534
8	Italian (it) Baku		3 422
9	French (fr) Bakou		3 332
10	Turkish (tr) Bakü		2 601

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Baku		1 121
2	Russian (ru) Баку		447
3	German (de) Baku		369
4	French (fr) Bakou		281
5	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		255
6	Italian (it) Baku		243
7	Turkish (tr) Bakü		206
8	Dutch (nl) Bakoe		200
9	Persian (fa) باکو		176
10	Spanish (es) Bakú		174

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		3
2	Persian (fa) باکو		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		2
4	French (fr) Bakou		2
5	Portuguese (pt) Bacu		2
6	Arabic (ar) باكو		1
7	Catalan (ca) Bakú		1
8	German (de) Baku		1
9	Basque (eu) Baku		1
10	Hungarian (hu) Baku		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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