Herculaneum

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Herculaneum - Roman town. This city is the 615^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 809^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia and the 244^th most popular building in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Herculaneum” in Simple English Wikipedia has 34.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in French Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 809^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 244^th most popular in buildings in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 615^th most popular in cities.

The 227^th most popular in buildings.

Since the creation of article “Herculaneum”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2103 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Herculaneum is on the 809^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 615^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

Herculaneum is on the 244^th place in local ranking of buildings in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 227^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 55 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7597 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #932 in March 2011
• Global: #2996 in March 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9120 in May 2022
• Global: #13094 in July 2018

There are 50 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	French (fr) Herculanum		96.4027
2	Italian (it) Scavi archeologici di Ercolano		96.0661
3	English (en) Herculaneum		74.7084
4	Slovenian (sl) Herkulanej		70.8887
5	Hebrew (he) הרקולנאום		64.3434
6	Ukrainian (uk) Геркуланум		61.9909
7	Galician (gl) Herculano		60.754
8	Spanish (es) Herculano		58.676
9	Persian (fa) هرکولانیوم		54.9365
10	Russian (ru) Геркуланум		54.3258

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Herculaneum		4 857 064
2	French (fr) Herculanum		1 110 883
3	German (de) Herculaneum		927 318
4	Italian (it) Scavi archeologici di Ercolano		802 081
5	Spanish (es) Herculano		774 815
6	Russian (ru) Геркуланум		497 345
7	Polish (pl) Herkulanum		276 779
8	Portuguese (pt) Herculano		238 655
9	Dutch (nl) Herculaneum (oudheid)		227 239
10	Japanese (ja) ヘルクラネウム		173 869

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) Herculaneum		25 222
2	German (de) Herculaneum		4 190
3	French (fr) Herculanum		3 754
4	Spanish (es) Herculano		2 672
5	Russian (ru) Геркуланум		2 520
6	Dutch (nl) Herculaneum (oudheid)		1 286
7	Italian (it) Scavi archeologici di Ercolano		1 106
8	Chinese (zh) 赫库兰尼姆古城		1 106
9	Polish (pl) Herkulanum		1 000
10	Portuguese (pt) Herculano		946

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Herculaneum		404
2	French (fr) Herculanum		220
3	Italian (it) Scavi archeologici di Ercolano		179
4	German (de) Herculaneum		169
5	Russian (ru) Геркуланум		96
6	Dutch (nl) Herculaneum (oudheid)		94
7	Spanish (es) Herculano		77
8	Hungarian (hu) Herculaneum		59
9	Hebrew (he) הרקולנאום		56
10	Danish (da) Herculaneum		55

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	Italian (it) Scavi archeologici di Ercolano		3
2	Catalan (ca) Herculà		2
3	German (de) Herculaneum		2
4	English (en) Herculaneum		2
5	Bulgarian (bg) Херкулан		1
6	Hebrew (he) הרקולנאום		1
7	Portuguese (pt) Herculano		1
8	Chinese (zh) 赫库兰尼姆古城		1
9	Arabic (ar) هركولانيوم		0
10	Belarusian (be) Геркуланум		0

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

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