Kyiv

Quality:

Kyiv - capital and largest city of Ukraine. This city is the 55^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 78^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Kyiv” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Russian 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 4528^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2384^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 78^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2137^th most popular in all topics.

The 470^th most popular in AI.

The 55^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7698^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4363^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1268^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Kyiv”, its content was written by 54 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2384^th place) and edited by 8345 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (470^th place).

Kyiv is on the 78^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 55^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 497 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5285^th place) and cited 209639 times in all languages (538^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #278 in December 2006
• Global: #13 in March 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #48 in January 2026
• Global: #33 in February 2022

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	Russian (ru) Киев		100
2	Hindi (hi) कीव		100
3	German (de) Kiew		98.4252
4	French (fr) Kiev		94.2582
5	Esperanto (eo) Kievo		93.8408
6	Polish (pl) Kijów		90.4542
7	Chinese (zh) 基輔		87.5461
8	Arabic (ar) كييف		86.7763
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Kyiv		81.5005
10	Ukrainian (uk) Київ		78.8842

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kyiv		19 388 247
2	Russian (ru) Киев		16 668 364
3	Ukrainian (uk) Київ		6 603 069
4	German (de) Kiew		4 028 569
5	Polish (pl) Kijów		2 718 792
6	Spanish (es) Kiev		2 470 275
7	French (fr) Kiev		1 800 095
8	Italian (it) Kiev		1 749 272
9	Japanese (ja) キーウ		1 733 064
10	Chinese (zh) 基輔		919 006

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) Kyiv		53 200
2	Russian (ru) Киев		40 943
3	Ukrainian (uk) Київ		19 917
4	German (de) Kiew		10 131
5	Polish (pl) Kijów		8 280
6	Japanese (ja) キーウ		5 983
7	French (fr) Kiev		4 445
8	Spanish (es) Kiev		3 899
9	Italian (it) Kiev		3 514
10	Chinese (zh) 基輔		2 554

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kyiv		1 330
2	Russian (ru) Киев		970
3	German (de) Kiew		724
4	Ukrainian (uk) Київ		555
5	French (fr) Kiev		516
6	Italian (it) Kiev		358
7	Polish (pl) Kijów		288
8	Spanish (es) Kiev		283
9	Japanese (ja) キーウ		257
10	Dutch (nl) Kiev		218

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	French (fr) Kiev		7
2	Russian (ru) Киев		5
3	Ukrainian (uk) Київ		5
4	German (de) Kiew		4
5	English (en) Kyiv		4
6	Hebrew (he) קייב		4
7	Japanese (ja) キーウ		3
8	Dutch (nl) Kiev		3
9	Bulgarian (bg) Киев		2
10	Catalan (ca) Kíiv		2

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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