Cologne

Quality:

Cologne - most populous city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This city is the 68^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 111^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Cologne” in Simple English Wikipedia has 38.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in Latin 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 5728^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2049^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 111^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2681^st most popular in all topics.

The 899^th most popular in AI.

The 68^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4911^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4586^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5612^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Cologne”, its content was written by 58 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2049^th place) and edited by 6703 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (899^th place).

Cologne is on the 111^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 68^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 552 times in Simple English Wikipedia (3851^st place) and cited 123016 times in all languages (1011^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #11 in August 2004
• Global: #198 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1074 in January 2026
• Global: #1214 in July 2008

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	Latin (la) Colonia Agrippina		93.1035
2	German (de) Köln		88.3969
3	English (en) Cologne		88.2804
4	Portuguese (pt) Colônia (Alemanha)		83.1629
5	French (fr) Cologne		73.2641
6	Dutch (nl) Keulen		69.1008
7	Slovenian (sl) Köln		67.8277
8	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		66.0352
9	Japanese (ja) ケルン		64.1475
10	Swedish (sv) Köln		63.1345

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cologne		17 812 072
2	German (de) Köln		17 597 203
3	Russian (ru) Кёльн		3 225 126
4	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		2 762 151
5	French (fr) Cologne		2 638 738
6	Italian (it) Colonia (Germania)		2 095 295
7	Dutch (nl) Keulen		1 886 055
8	Polish (pl) Kolonia (Niemcy)		1 884 184
9	Japanese (ja) ケルン		1 396 336
10	Portuguese (pt) Colônia (Alemanha)		833 873

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) Cologne		60 663
2	German (de) Köln		38 756
3	Russian (ru) Кёльн		10 298
4	French (fr) Cologne		6 542
5	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		6 176
6	Italian (it) Colonia (Germania)		5 277
7	Polish (pl) Kolonia (Niemcy)		5 054
8	Japanese (ja) ケルン		3 628
9	Chinese (zh) 科隆		3 461
10	Dutch (nl) Keulen		3 408

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Köln		1 594
2	English (en) Cologne		1 159
3	French (fr) Cologne		401
4	Dutch (nl) Keulen		360
5	Italian (it) Colonia (Germania)		270
6	Russian (ru) Кёльн		261
7	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		208
8	Japanese (ja) ケルン		132
9	Polish (pl) Kolonia (Niemcy)		131
10	Swedish (sv) Köln		124

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) Cologne		8
2	German (de) Köln		5
3	French (fr) Cologne		3
4	Hungarian (hu) Köln		2
5	Arabic (ar) كولونيا		1
6	Catalan (ca) Colònia (Alemanya)		1
7	Estonian (et) Köln		1
8	Persian (fa) کلن		1
9	Dutch (nl) Keulen		1
10	Norwegian (no) Köln		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 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