Chennai

Quality:

Chennai - city and state capital of Tamil Nadu, India. This city is the 148^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 46^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Chennai” in Simple English Wikipedia has 41.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Tamil 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 3096^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3303^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 46^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6902^nd most popular in all topics.

The 3147^th most popular in AI.

The 148^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6155^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Chennai”, its content was written by 45 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3303^rd place) and edited by 4442 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3147^th place).

Chennai is on the 46^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 148^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 299 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 54636 times in all languages (3025^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #274 in January 2022
• Global: #169 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #643 in February 2023
• Global: #2925 in December 2015

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	Tamil (ta) சென்னை		100
2	Vietnamese (vi) Chennai		100
3	Arabic (ar) تشيناي		100
4	Hindi (hi) चेन्नई		97.5
5	English (en) Chennai		96.4688
6	Malay (ms) Chennai		87.0387
7	German (de) Chennai		80.1832
8	Slovenian (sl) Čenaj		78.6101
9	Chinese (zh) 金奈		76.5331
10	French (fr) Madras		68.7237

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chennai		25 672 970
2	German (de) Chennai		1 309 838
3	French (fr) Madras		1 038 945
4	Japanese (ja) チェンナイ		861 185
5	Tamil (ta) சென்னை		835 438
6	Russian (ru) Ченнаи		702 097
7	Spanish (es) Chennai		683 784
8	Hindi (hi) चेन्नई		638 364
9	Italian (it) Chennai		583 704
10	Chinese (zh) 金奈		469 568

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) Chennai		67 226
2	German (de) Chennai		3 075
3	French (fr) Madras		2 567
4	Japanese (ja) チェンナイ		2 491
5	Russian (ru) Ченнаи		2 373
6	Chinese (zh) 金奈		2 186
7	Hindi (hi) चेन्नई		2 124
8	Tamil (ta) சென்னை		1 721
9	Italian (it) Chennai		1 604
10	Spanish (es) Chennai		1 491

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chennai		1 921
2	German (de) Chennai		301
3	French (fr) Madras		225
4	Italian (it) Chennai		131
5	Tamil (ta) சென்னை		125
6	Dutch (nl) Chennai		115
7	Hindi (hi) चेन्नई		104
8	Russian (ru) Ченнаи		103
9	Chinese (zh) 金奈		91
10	Spanish (es) Chennai		83

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) Chennai		5
2	Japanese (ja) チェンナイ		2
3	Arabic (ar) تشيناي		1
4	Basque (eu) Chennai		1
5	French (fr) Madras		1
6	Armenian (hy) Չեննայ		1
7	Malay (ms) Chennai		1
8	Dutch (nl) Chennai		1
9	Volapük (vo) Chennai		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Çennai		0

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