Lyon

Quality:

Lyon - city of France. This city is the 93^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 74^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Lyon” in Simple English Wikipedia has 36.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 5 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 4372^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3430^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 74^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4397^th most popular in all topics.

The 1253^rd most popular in AI.

The 93^rd most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3783^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6319^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3833^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Lyon”, its content was written by 44 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3430^th place) and edited by 5978 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1253^rd place).

Lyon is on the 74^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 93^rd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 442 times in Simple English Wikipedia (6019^th place) and cited 102119 times in all languages (1373^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #66 in January 2007
• Global: #382 in October 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #933 in November 2025
• Global: #2480 in November 2025

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	German (de) Lyon		97.7298
2	French (fr) Lyon		91.1699
3	English (en) Lyon		85.1697
4	Vietnamese (vi) Lyon		71.2707
5	Catalan (ca) Lió		70.3868
6	Chinese (zh) 里昂		69.8258
7	Ukrainian (uk) Ліон		65.32
8	Spanish (es) Lyon		64.1564
9	Basque (eu) Lyon		63.9556
10	Greek (el) Λυών		61.9731

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lyon		12 532 504
2	French (fr) Lyon		12 259 332
3	German (de) Lyon		3 812 549
4	Spanish (es) Lyon		2 854 709
5	Italian (it) Lione		2 378 214
6	Russian (ru) Лион		2 016 941
7	Japanese (ja) リヨン		1 183 448
8	Polish (pl) Lyon		1 131 587
9	Portuguese (pt) Lyon		1 035 598
10	Dutch (nl) Lyon		953 846

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) Lyon		43 468
2	French (fr) Lyon		32 163
3	German (de) Lyon		12 797
4	Spanish (es) Lyon		6 476
5	Russian (ru) Лион		6 061
6	Italian (it) Lione		5 322
7	Polish (pl) Lyon		4 081
8	Japanese (ja) リヨン		3 679
9	Dutch (nl) Lyon		2 747
10	Chinese (zh) 里昂		2 369

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Lyon		1 462
2	English (en) Lyon		1 001
3	German (de) Lyon		523
4	Italian (it) Lione		354
5	Dutch (nl) Lyon		249
6	Spanish (es) Lyon		211
7	Russian (ru) Лион		200
8	Hebrew (he) ליון		128
9	Japanese (ja) リヨン		117
10	Polish (pl) Lyon		111

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) Lyon		12
2	English (en) Lyon		9
3	Esperanto (eo) Liono		2
4	Arabic (ar) ليون		1
5	Spanish (es) Lyon		1
6	Basque (eu) Lyon		1
7	Finnish (fi) Lyon		1
8	Italian (it) Lione		1
9	Dutch (nl) Lyon		1
10	Norwegian (no) Lyon		1

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