Brussels

Quality:

Brussels - municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region and capital of Belgium. This city is the 221^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 171^st most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Brussels” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.18 points.

This article has the best quality in Esperanto 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 7592^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3568^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 171^st most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5976^th most popular in AI.

The 221^st most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7462^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9364^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Brussels”, its content was written by 43 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3568^th place) and edited by 3304 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5976^th place).

Brussels is on the 171^st place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 221^st place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 664 times in Simple English Wikipedia (1712^th place) and cited 94517 times in all languages (1551^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #6 in April 2004
• Global: #263 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1848 in August 2012
• Global: #568 in March 2016

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	Esperanto (eo) Bruselo		94.2739
2	Chinese (zh) 布鲁塞尔		81.9858
3	Spanish (es) Bruselas		71.9514
4	Dutch (nl) Brussel (stad)		71.4662
5	English (en) City of Brussels		70.4313
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Brussel		66.5998
7	Basque (eu) Brusela		65.2103
8	French (fr) Ville de Bruxelles		63.2156
9	Greek (el) Βρυξέλλες		61.6
10	Ukrainian (uk) Брюссель		61.3884

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Bruselas		5 288 843
2	English (en) City of Brussels		3 788 423
3	Russian (ru) Брюссель		3 560 170
4	Dutch (nl) Brussel (stad)		2 671 993
5	Polish (pl) Bruksela		2 290 574
6	French (fr) Ville de Bruxelles		1 952 487
7	German (de) Stadt Brüssel		1 511 775
8	Chinese (zh) 布鲁塞尔		1 078 845
9	Czech (cs) Brusel		752 550
10	Italian (it) Bruxelles (comune)		684 334

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) City of Brussels		26 365
2	French (fr) Ville de Bruxelles		10 766
3	Spanish (es) Bruselas		10 263
4	German (de) Stadt Brüssel		9 786
5	Russian (ru) Брюссель		9 659
6	Dutch (nl) Brussel (stad)		5 644
7	Polish (pl) Bruksela		4 805
8	Italian (it) Bruxelles (comune)		4 626
9	Chinese (zh) 布鲁塞尔		3 728
10	Portuguese (pt) Cidade de Bruxelas		2 182

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Brussel (stad)		487
2	Spanish (es) Bruselas		262
3	French (fr) Ville de Bruxelles		254
4	English (en) City of Brussels		233
5	Russian (ru) Брюссель		188
6	Polish (pl) Bruksela		165
7	Hebrew (he) בריסל		129
8	Hungarian (hu) Brüsszel		126
9	German (de) Stadt Brüssel		116
10	Czech (cs) Brusel		102

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	French (fr) Ville de Bruxelles		2
2	Hebrew (he) בריסל		2
3	Dutch (nl) Brussel (stad)		2
4	Russian (ru) Брюссель		2
5	English (en) City of Brussels		1
6	Basque (eu) Brusela		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Brüsszel		1
8	Romanian (ro) Orașul Bruxelles		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Брюссель		1
10	Arabic (ar) مدينة بروكسل		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