Kolkata

Quality:

Kolkata - capital city of West Bengal, India. This city is the 118^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 46^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Kolkata” in Simple English Wikipedia has 40.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Hindi 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 3275^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3796^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 5638^th most popular in all topics.

The 2326^th most popular in AI.

The 118^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7550^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Kolkata”, its content was written by 40 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3796^th place) and edited by 4811 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2326^th place).

Kolkata is on the 46^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 118^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 324 times in Simple English Wikipedia (9372^nd place) and cited 53409 times in all languages (2989^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #160 in February 2015
• Global: #192 in November 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #641 in May 2025
• Global: #2982 in December 2014

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	Hindi (hi) कोलकाता		100
2	Greek (el) Καλκούτα		100
3	Basque (eu) Kalkuta		100
4	Urdu (ur) کولکاتا		98.3653
5	Arabic (ar) كلكتا		96.5517
6	English (en) Kolkata		95.1836
7	Tamil (ta) கொல்கத்தா		91.9762
8	Esperanto (eo) Kolkato		91.1759
9	Russian (ru) Калькутта		80.47
10	German (de) Kolkata		78.8258

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kolkata		24 379 336
2	German (de) Kolkata		1 799 086
3	Spanish (es) Calcuta		1 578 973
4	Hindi (hi) कोलकाता		1 288 476
5	Russian (ru) Калькутта		1 241 645
6	French (fr) Calcutta		1 075 166
7	Japanese (ja) コルカタ		981 991
8	Italian (it) Calcutta		945 612
9	Polish (pl) Kolkata		695 118
10	Chinese (zh) 加尔各答		535 625

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) Kolkata		91 101
2	Russian (ru) Калькутта		6 324
3	German (de) Kolkata		5 174
4	Hindi (hi) कोलकाता		3 848
5	Italian (it) Calcutta		3 551
6	Spanish (es) Calcuta		3 495
7	Chinese (zh) 加尔各答		3 310
8	French (fr) Calcutta		3 020
9	Japanese (ja) コルカタ		2 737
10	Polish (pl) Kolkata		1 678

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kolkata		1 731
2	German (de) Kolkata		344
3	French (fr) Calcutta		219
4	Italian (it) Calcutta		175
5	Dutch (nl) Calcutta		138
6	Russian (ru) Калькутта		138
7	Hindi (hi) कोलकाता		126
8	Spanish (es) Calcuta		117
9	Japanese (ja) コルカタ		97
10	Danish (da) Kolkata		91

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) Kolkata		5
2	Hindi (hi) कोलकाता		2
3	Italian (it) Calcutta		2
4	Russian (ru) Калькутта		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Kəlkətə		1
6	Catalan (ca) Calcuta		1
7	German (de) Kolkata		1
8	Esperanto (eo) Kolkato		1
9	French (fr) Calcutta		1
10	Hungarian (hu) Kolkata		1

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

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