Istanbul

Quality:

Istanbul - city in Turkey located at the Bosporus Strait. This city is the 13^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 24^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Istanbul” in Simple English Wikipedia has 40 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese 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 1910^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1334^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 24^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 541^st most popular in all topics.

The 189^th most popular in AI.

The 13^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 997^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1183^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 539^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Istanbul”, its content was written by 70 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1334^th place) and edited by 10526 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (189^th place).

Istanbul is on the 24^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 13^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 641 times in Simple English Wikipedia (2323^rd place) and cited 186041 times in all languages (591^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #72 in April 2005
• Global: #48 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #136 in February 2023
• Global: #314 in March 2013

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, 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	Portuguese (pt) Istambul		100
2	Hungarian (hu) Isztambul		100
3	Serbian (sr) Истанбул		100
4	Georgian (ka) სტამბოლი		100
5	Vietnamese (vi) Istanbul		100
6	Slovenian (sl) Carigrad		100
7	Armenian (hy) Ստամբուլ		100
8	Urdu (ur) استنبول		100
9	Esperanto (eo) Istanbulo		100
10	Indonesian (id) Istanbul		97.83

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Istanbul		36 499 070
2	Turkish (tr) İstanbul		13 163 357
3	German (de) Istanbul		10 141 445
4	Russian (ru) Стамбул		9 295 284
5	Spanish (es) Estambul		8 593 956
6	French (fr) Istanbul		5 311 773
7	Italian (it) Istanbul		5 005 517
8	Arabic (ar) إسطنبول		3 671 177
9	Polish (pl) Stambuł		3 320 905
10	Portuguese (pt) Istambul		2 775 787

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) Istanbul		143 657
2	Turkish (tr) İstanbul		34 306
3	Russian (ru) Стамбул		33 623
4	Spanish (es) Estambul		21 550
5	German (de) Istanbul		19 696
6	Italian (it) Istanbul		15 521
7	Polish (pl) Stambuł		14 144
8	French (fr) Istanbul		13 445
9	Japanese (ja) イスタンブール		12 392
10	Chinese (zh) 伊斯坦堡		12 034

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Istanbul		2 107
2	German (de) Istanbul		986
3	Turkish (tr) İstanbul		946
4	French (fr) Istanbul		588
5	Russian (ru) Стамбул		450
6	Italian (it) Istanbul		416
7	Dutch (nl) Istanbul		363
8	Spanish (es) Estambul		347
9	Persian (fa) استانبول		292
10	Polish (pl) Stambuł		227

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) Istanbul		10
2	German (de) Istanbul		8
3	Polish (pl) Stambuł		7
4	Turkish (tr) İstanbul		7
5	Greek (el) Κωνσταντινούπολη		6
6	Spanish (es) Estambul		4
7	Russian (ru) Стамбул		4
8	Arabic (ar) إسطنبول		3
9	French (fr) Istanbul		3
10	Romanian (ro) Istanbul		3

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

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