Preston

Quality:

Preston - city and the administrative centre of Lancashire, England. This city is the 1664^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 843^rd most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Preston” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 843^rd most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1664^th most popular in cities.

Since the creation of article “Preston”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1531 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Preston is on the 843^rd place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1664^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 143 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10184 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #322 in July 2011
• Global: #1666 in July 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7498 in October 2016
• Global: #26633 in March 2025

There are 44 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, 2025 (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	English (en) Preston, Lancashire		89.4018
2	Catalan (ca) Preston		58.4487
3	Chinese (zh) 普雷斯顿 (兰开夏郡)		50.788
4	Arabic (ar) برسطن		44.6073
5	German (de) Preston		43.7018
6	Turkish (tr) Preston, Lancashire		42.1549
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Preston, Lancashire		38.6922
8	Czech (cs) Preston		33.4961
9	Ukrainian (uk) Престон		31.7772
10	Estonian (et) Preston		30.8683

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Preston, Lancashire		2 737 094
2	German (de) Preston		258 574
3	Italian (it) Preston		162 990
4	Spanish (es) Preston		159 076
5	Polish (pl) Preston		156 856
6	French (fr) Preston (Lancashire)		140 139
7	Russian (ru) Престон		133 238
8	Japanese (ja) プレストン (イングランド)		56 254
9	Portuguese (pt) Preston		51 440
10	Arabic (ar) برسطن		38 943

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) Preston, Lancashire		13 360
2	German (de) Preston		836
3	Italian (it) Preston		656
4	Spanish (es) Preston		568
5	French (fr) Preston (Lancashire)		504
6	Simple English (simple) Preston		504
7	Russian (ru) Престон		474
8	Polish (pl) Preston		296
9	Japanese (ja) プレストン (イングランド)		262
10	Dutch (nl) Preston (district)		237

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Preston, Lancashire		674
2	German (de) Preston		126
3	French (fr) Preston (Lancashire)		89
4	Italian (it) Preston		73
5	Dutch (nl) Preston (district)		63
6	Russian (ru) Престон		55
7	Norwegian (no) Preston (Lancashire)		45
8	Hebrew (he) פרסטון		34
9	Polish (pl) Preston		33
10	Spanish (es) Preston		30

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) Preston		2
2	English (en) Preston, Lancashire		2
3	French (fr) Preston (Lancashire)		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Preston		1
5	Catalan (ca) Preston		1
6	Russian (ru) Престон		1
7	Serbian (sr) Престон		1
8	Arabic (ar) برسطن		0
9	Belarusian (be) Прэстан		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Престън		0

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

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