Durham, North Carolina

Quality:

Durham - county seat of Durham County, North Carolina, United States. This city is the 1115^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 874^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Durham, North Carolina” in Simple English Wikipedia has 58.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 12 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 874^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1115^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9051^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Durham, North Carolina”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1421 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Durham is on the 874^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1115^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 342 times in Simple English Wikipedia (8911^th place) and cited 14174 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1367 in July 2018
• Global: #3143 in January 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9051 in June 2025
• Global: #41512 in July 2010

There are 45 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	English (en) Durham, North Carolina		92.5645
2	Simple English (simple) Durham, North Carolina		58.9105
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Durham i Nord-Carolina		41.9971
4	German (de) Durham (North Carolina)		37.8485
5	Russian (ru) Дарем (Северная Каролина)		36.149
6	Greek (el) Ντάρεμ (Βόρεια Καρολίνα)		32.6285
7	Chinese (zh) 德罕 (北卡羅來納州)		31.3964
8	Armenian (hy) Դարհեմ (Հյուսիսային Կարոլինա)		29.6729
9	Bulgarian (bg) Дърам (Северна Каролина)		29.4919
10	Galician (gl) Durham, Carolina do Norte		29.1237

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Durham, North Carolina		5 171 249
2	Spanish (es) Durham (Carolina del Norte)		171 031
3	German (de) Durham (North Carolina)		163 168
4	Japanese (ja) ダーラム (ノースカロライナ州)		117 443
5	Italian (it) Durham (Carolina del Nord)		113 099
6	French (fr) Durham (Caroline du Nord)		109 853
7	Russian (ru) Дарем (Северная Каролина)		94 968
8	Chinese (zh) 德罕 (北卡羅來納州)		79 781
9	Polish (pl) Durham (Karolina Północna)		56 646
10	Portuguese (pt) Durham (Carolina do Norte)		54 609

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) Durham, North Carolina		20 323
2	Spanish (es) Durham (Carolina del Norte)		970
3	Italian (it) Durham (Carolina del Nord)		905
4	Simple English (simple) Durham, North Carolina		765
5	German (de) Durham (North Carolina)		655
6	Russian (ru) Дарем (Северная Каролина)		519
7	Chinese (zh) 德罕 (北卡羅來納州)		513
8	French (fr) Durham (Caroline du Nord)		458
9	Japanese (ja) ダーラム (ノースカロライナ州)		452
10	Portuguese (pt) Durham (Carolina do Norte)		376

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Durham, North Carolina		746
2	German (de) Durham (North Carolina)		93
3	French (fr) Durham (Caroline du Nord)		48
4	Italian (it) Durham (Carolina del Nord)		44
5	Russian (ru) Дарем (Северная Каролина)		37
6	Dutch (nl) Durham (North Carolina)		36
7	Chinese (zh) 德罕 (北卡羅來納州)		31
8	Polish (pl) Durham (Karolina Północna)		29
9	Hungarian (hu) Durham (Észak-Karolina)		25
10	Japanese (ja) ダーラム (ノースカロライナ州)		25

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) Durham, North Carolina		2
2	Chinese (zh) 德罕 (北卡羅來納州)		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) Durham (Şimali Karolina)		1
4	German (de) Durham (North Carolina)		1
5	Arabic (ar) درم (كارولاينا الشمالية)		0
6	Belarusian (be) Дарэм (Паўночная Караліна)		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Дърам (Северна Каролина)		0
8	Catalan (ca) Durham (Carolina del Nord)		0
9	Czech (cs) Durham (Severní Karolína)		0
10	Danish (da) Durham (North Carolina)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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