List of national capitals

Quality:

List of national capitals - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of national capitals” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in German 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 2379^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1992^nd most popular in all topics.

The 4231^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 316^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2715^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “List of national capitals”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3876 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4231^st place).

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16383 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #156 in January 2025
• Global: #34 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #84 in August 2025
• Global: #863 in April 2020

There are 46 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	German (de) Liste der Hauptstädte der Erde		63.8095
2	Greek (el) Κατάλογος εθνικών πρωτευουσών		51.2921
3	Catalan (ca) Llista de capitals d'estats independents		43.6429
4	Malay (ms) Senarai ibu negara		40
5	Polish (pl) Lista stolic państw		39.5375
6	Chinese (zh) 各国首都列表		35.6744
7	English (en) List of national capitals		30.1319
8	Uzbek (uz) Davlat poytaxtlari roʻyxati		29.6222
9	Portuguese (pt) Lista de capitais nacionais		28.4611
10	Simple English (simple) List of national capitals		27.7723

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of national capitals		12 055 377
2	French (fr) Liste des capitales du monde		10 347 976
3	Russian (ru) Список столиц государств		8 243 775
4	German (de) Liste der Hauptstädte der Erde		5 189 767
5	Dutch (nl) Lijst van hoofdsteden		3 195 897
6	Italian (it) Capitali degli Stati del mondo		3 042 145
7	Polish (pl) Lista stolic państw		2 532 485
8	Japanese (ja) 首都の一覧		2 417 340
9	Turkish (tr) Başkentler listesi		2 199 889
10	Swedish (sv) Lista över huvudstäder		1 740 667

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) List of national capitals		67 459
2	French (fr) Liste des capitales du monde		37 268
3	Russian (ru) Список столиц государств		29 438
4	German (de) Liste der Hauptstädte der Erde		18 399
5	Italian (it) Capitali degli Stati del mondo		11 280
6	Turkish (tr) Başkentler listesi		8 129
7	Swedish (sv) Lista över huvudstäder		6 802
8	Dutch (nl) Lijst van hoofdsteden		4 018
9	Japanese (ja) 首都の一覧		4 016
10	Bulgarian (bg) Списък на столиците		3 330

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of national capitals		556
2	German (de) Liste der Hauptstädte der Erde		325
3	French (fr) Liste des capitales du monde		316
4	Dutch (nl) Lijst van hoofdsteden		261
5	Russian (ru) Список столиц государств		211
6	Italian (it) Capitali degli Stati del mondo		201
7	Chinese (zh) 各国首都列表		175
8	Polish (pl) Lista stolic państw		149
9	Hebrew (he) ערי בירה		127
10	Turkish (tr) Başkentler listesi		119

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	German (de) Liste der Hauptstädte der Erde		3
2	Czech (cs) Seznam hlavních měst států světa		2
3	French (fr) Liste des capitales du monde		2
4	Slovak (sk) Zoznam hlavných miest		2
5	Arabic (ar) قائمة العواصم الوطنية		1
6	English (en) List of national capitals		1
7	Italian (it) Capitali degli Stati del mondo		1
8	Japanese (ja) 首都の一覧		1
9	Malay (ms) Senarai ibu negara		1
10	Polish (pl) Lista stolic państw		1

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

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