Brussels

Quality:

City of Brussels - municipality and capital city of Belgium. This city is the 217^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 164^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Brussels” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.29 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 7931^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3344^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 164^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6146^th most popular in AI.

The 217^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9001^st 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 (3344^th place) and edited by 3214 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6146^th place).

City of Brussels is on the 164^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 217^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 617 times in Simple English Wikipedia (2380^th place) and cited 90470 times in all languages (1611^th 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): #1846 in August 2012
• Global: #566 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, 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	Esperanto (eo) Bruselo		92.5306
2	Chinese (zh) 布鲁塞尔		81.732
3	Spanish (es) Bruselas		72.3303
4	Dutch (nl) Brussel (stad)		71.6918
5	English (en) City of Brussels		71.4383
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Brussel		66.5998
7	Basque (eu) Brusela		65.5508
8	French (fr) Ville de Bruxelles		63.1481
9	Ukrainian (uk) Брюссель		62.8939
10	Greek (el) Βρυξέλλες		59.6771

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Bruselas		5 139 136
2	English (en) City of Brussels		3 449 547
3	Russian (ru) Брюссель		3 247 256
4	Dutch (nl) Brussel (stad)		2 584 973
5	Polish (pl) Bruksela		2 222 217
6	French (fr) Ville de Bruxelles		1 795 164
7	German (de) Stadt Brüssel		1 389 160
8	Chinese (zh) 布鲁塞尔		994 247
9	Czech (cs) Brusel		728 129
10	Italian (it) Bruxelles (comune)		611 598

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		31 498
2	Spanish (es) Bruselas		13 491
3	French (fr) Ville de Bruxelles		12 219
4	Russian (ru) Брюссель		11 617
5	German (de) Stadt Brüssel		9 111
6	Dutch (nl) Brussel (stad)		7 422
7	Chinese (zh) 布鲁塞尔		5 214
8	Polish (pl) Bruksela		5 017
9	Italian (it) Bruxelles (comune)		4 947
10	Portuguese (pt) Cidade de Bruxelas		2 267

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)		479
2	Spanish (es) Bruselas		255
3	French (fr) Ville de Bruxelles		243
4	English (en) City of Brussels		224
5	Russian (ru) Брюссель		181
6	Polish (pl) Bruksela		163
7	Hebrew (he) בריסל		126
8	Hungarian (hu) Brüsszel		124
9	German (de) Stadt Brüssel		114
10	Czech (cs) Brusel		100

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		4
2	English (en) City of Brussels		3
3	Dutch (nl) Brussel (stad)		3
4	Chinese (zh) 布鲁塞尔		3
5	Azerbaijani (az) Brüssel		1
6	Greek (el) Βρυξέλλες		1
7	Esperanto (eo) Bruselo		1
8	Armenian (hy) Բրյուսել		1
9	Italian (it) Bruxelles (comune)		1
10	Romanian (ro) Orașul Bruxelles		1

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information