Leuven

Quality:

Leuven - capital city of Flemish Brabant, Belgium. This city is the 681^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 531^st most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Leuven” in Simple English Wikipedia has 36.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 531^st most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 681^st most popular in cities.

Since the creation of article “Leuven”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2417 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Leuven is on the 531^st place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 681^st place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 145 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 24925 times in all languages (6786^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #652 in February 2016
• Global: #2157 in March 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1394 in December 2025
• Global: #12507 in January 2026

There are 47 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	Dutch (nl) Leuven		79.3991
2	English (en) Leuven		77.8794
3	German (de) Löwen		61.6366
4	Slovenian (sl) Leuven		55.9436
5	French (fr) Louvain		55.3577
6	Chinese (zh) 鲁汶		52.3128
7	Italian (it) Lovanio		50.5984
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Leuven		50.0474
9	Russian (ru) Лёвен		46.1393
10	Hungarian (hu) Leuven		44.3887

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Leuven		3 537 671
2	Dutch (nl) Leuven		1 557 288
3	German (de) Löwen		1 348 080
4	French (fr) Louvain		954 612
5	Spanish (es) Lovaina		669 356
6	Italian (it) Lovanio		644 354
7	Polish (pl) Leuven		375 385
8	Russian (ru) Лёвен		313 745
9	Portuguese (pt) Lovaina		171 064
10	Japanese (ja) ルーヴェン		150 293

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) Leuven		13 017
2	German (de) Löwen		5 473
3	Dutch (nl) Leuven		4 740
4	French (fr) Louvain		3 895
5	Italian (it) Lovanio		2 433
6	Spanish (es) Lovaina		1 649
7	Russian (ru) Лёвен		1 210
8	Polish (pl) Leuven		989
9	Japanese (ja) ルーヴェン		957
10	Chinese (zh) 鲁汶		691

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Leuven		422
2	Dutch (nl) Leuven		390
3	German (de) Löwen		294
4	French (fr) Louvain		232
5	Italian (it) Lovanio		122
6	Spanish (es) Lovaina		88
7	Russian (ru) Лёвен		71
8	Hungarian (hu) Leuven		65
9	Polish (pl) Leuven		64
10	Esperanto (eo) Loveno		46

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	Dutch (nl) Leuven		4
2	Arabic (ar) لوفن		1
3	English (en) Leuven		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Leuven		1
5	Lithuanian (lt) Levenas		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Löven		0
7	Belarusian (be) Лёвен		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Льовен		0
9	Catalan (ca) Lovaina		0
10	Czech (cs) Lovaň		0

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

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