List of largest cities

List of largest cities - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of largest cities” in Simple English Wikipedia has 63.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 139 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “List of largest cities”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3282 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6065^th place).

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2201 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #11829 in January 2025
• Global: #651 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8526 in September 2023
• Global: #951 in August 2015

There are 14 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	Greek (el) Μεγαλύτερες πόλεις του κόσμου		85.3613
2	Hindi (hi) सबसे बड़े शहरों की सूची		82.5
3	Tamil (ta) மிகப்பெரிய நகரங்களின் பட்டியல்		80.4855
4	English (en) List of largest cities		76.4905
5	Persian (fa) فهرست پرجمعیت‌ترین شهرها		75.1304
6	Thai (th) รายชื่อนครที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในโลก		66.9757
7	French (fr) Liste des villes et agglomérations les plus peuplées		64.3629
8	Simple English (simple) List of largest cities		63.6
9	Urdu (ur) دنیا کے سب سے بڑے شہر		57.096
10	Arabic (ar) قائمة أكبر المدن في العالم		50.6311

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

The most popular language versions of the article "List of largest cities" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of largest cities		67 987 115
2	French (fr) Liste des villes et agglomérations les plus peuplées		5 132 321
3	Italian (it) Città del mondo per popolazione		4 807 376
4	Turkish (tr) Nüfuslarına göre büyük şehirler listesi		1 741 814
5	Persian (fa) فهرست پرجمعیت‌ترین شهرها		1 716 416
6	Arabic (ar) قائمة أكبر المدن في العالم		802 076
7	Chinese (zh) 世界城市地區人口排序列表		501 791
8	Czech (cs) Seznam největších měst světa		268 717
9	Greek (el) Μεγαλύτερες πόλεις του κόσμου		163 218
10	Hindi (hi) सबसे बड़े शहरों की सूची		161 204

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "List of largest cities" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of largest cities		240 209
2	French (fr) Liste des villes et agglomérations les plus peuplées		13 026
3	Italian (it) Città del mondo per popolazione		9 625
4	Turkish (tr) Nüfuslarına göre büyük şehirler listesi		4 155
5	Persian (fa) فهرست پرجمعیت‌ترین شهرها		3 336
6	Czech (cs) Seznam největších měst světa		2 459
7	Chinese (zh) 世界城市地區人口排序列表		2 382
8	Greek (el) Μεγαλύτερες πόλεις του κόσμου		955
9	Hindi (hi) सबसे बड़े शहरों की सूची		499
10	Thai (th) รายชื่อนครที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในโลก		183

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

Language versions of the article "List of largest cities" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of largest cities		2 486
2	French (fr) Liste des villes et agglomérations les plus peuplées		253
3	Italian (it) Città del mondo per popolazione		158
4	Persian (fa) فهرست پرجمعیت‌ترین شهرها		109
5	Chinese (zh) 世界城市地區人口排序列表		73
6	Turkish (tr) Nüfuslarına göre büyük şehirler listesi		71
7	Arabic (ar) قائمة أكبر المدن في العالم		62
8	Thai (th) รายชื่อนครที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในโลก		19
9	Czech (cs) Seznam největších měst světa		18
10	Hindi (hi) सबसे बड़े शहरों की सूची		13

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

Language versions of the article "List of largest cities" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of largest cities		3
2	Greek (el) Μεγαλύτερες πόλεις του κόσμου		1
3	Persian (fa) فهرست پرجمعیت‌ترین شهرها		1
4	Tamil (ta) மிகப்பெரிய நகரங்களின் பட்டியல்		1
5	Chinese (zh) 世界城市地區人口排序列表		1
6	Arabic (ar) قائمة أكبر المدن في العالم		0
7	Czech (cs) Seznam největších měst světa		0
8	French (fr) Liste des villes et agglomérations les plus peuplées		0
9	Hindi (hi) सबसे बड़े शहरों की सूची		0
10	Italian (it) Città del mondo per popolazione		0

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

Language versions of the article "List of largest cities" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) List of largest cities		1 076
2	Arabic (ar) قائمة أكبر المدن في العالم		272
3	Urdu (ur) دنیا کے سب سے بڑے شہر		257
4	Persian (fa) فهرست پرجمعیت‌ترین شهرها		176
5	Chinese (zh) 世界城市地區人口排序列表		173
6	Turkish (tr) Nüfuslarına göre büyük şehirler listesi		104
7	French (fr) Liste des villes et agglomérations les plus peuplées		82
8	Italian (it) Città del mondo per popolazione		21
9	Czech (cs) Seznam největších měst světa		11
10	Greek (el) Μεγαλύτερες πόλεις του κόσμου		9

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قائمة أكبر المدن في العالم
cs	Czech Seznam největších měst světa
el	Greek Μεγαλύτερες πόλεις του κόσμου
en	English List of largest cities
fa	Persian فهرست پرجمعیت‌ترین شهرها
fr	French Liste des villes et agglomérations les plus peuplées
hi	Hindi सबसे बड़े शहरों की सूची
it	Italian Città del mondo per popolazione
simple	Simple English List of largest cities
ta	Tamil மிகப்பெரிய நகரங்களின் பட்டியல்
th	Thai รายชื่อนครที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในโลก
tr	Turkish Nüfuslarına göre büyük şehirler listesi
ur	Urdu دنیا کے سب سے بڑے شہر
zh	Chinese 世界城市地區人口排序列表

Best Rank

Simple English: #8526 09.2023

Global: #951 08.2015

Best Rank

Simple English: #11829 01.2025

Global: #651 10.2002

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