Basel

Quality:

Basel - city on the Rhine in Switzerland. This city is the 212^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 251^st most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Basel” in Simple English Wikipedia has 41.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 251^st most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9568^th most popular in all topics.

The 3561^st most popular in AI.

The 212^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9817^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8975^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Basel”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 4207 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3561^st place).

Basel is on the 251^st place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 212^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 251 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 67260 times in all languages (2521^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #401 in December 2015
• Global: #280 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #617 in November 2025
• Global: #2396 in May 2025

There are 54 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	English (en) Basel		92.7659
2	German (de) Basel		88.9315
3	Chinese (zh) 巴塞尔		87.2085
4	Ukrainian (uk) Базель		80.0107
5	French (fr) Bâle		76.3389
6	Slovenian (sl) Basel		73.2474
7	Czech (cs) Basilej		70.1332
8	Swedish (sv) Basel		66.5057
9	Latin (la) Basilea		59.7116
10	Italian (it) Basilea		59.6237

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basel		9 311 190
2	German (de) Basel		5 536 241
3	French (fr) Bâle		2 420 143
4	Spanish (es) Basilea		1 941 678
5	Italian (it) Basilea		1 646 410
6	Russian (ru) Базель		1 185 239
7	Polish (pl) Bazylea		1 010 664
8	Japanese (ja) バーゼル		835 905
9	Portuguese (pt) Basileia		666 228
10	Dutch (nl) Bazel (Zwitserland)		528 637

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) Basel		33 756
2	German (de) Basel		18 276
3	French (fr) Bâle		8 211
4	Italian (it) Basilea		4 912
5	Spanish (es) Basilea		4 795
6	Polish (pl) Bazylea		4 528
7	Russian (ru) Базель		4 239
8	Japanese (ja) バーゼル		2 509
9	Dutch (nl) Bazel (Zwitserland)		2 273
10	Portuguese (pt) Basileia		2 057

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Basel		915
2	English (en) Basel		701
3	French (fr) Bâle		416
4	Italian (it) Basilea		224
5	Dutch (nl) Bazel (Zwitserland)		172
6	Russian (ru) Базель		144
7	Hebrew (he) בזל		130
8	Spanish (es) Basilea		119
9	Polish (pl) Bazylea		104
10	Hungarian (hu) Bázel		84

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) Basel		9
2	French (fr) Bâle		4
3	German (de) Basel		3
4	Spanish (es) Basilea		1
5	Finnish (fi) Basel		1
6	Hebrew (he) בזל		1
7	Japanese (ja) バーゼル		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Basileia		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Базель		1
10	Arabic (ar) بازل		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