Riga

Quality:

Riga - capital and largest city of Latvia. This city is the 158^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 327^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Riga” in Simple English Wikipedia has 51.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 13 sections.

This article has the best quality in Finnish 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 8276^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 327^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7379^th most popular in all topics.

The 1893^rd most popular in AI.

The 158^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8726^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9439^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7498^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Riga”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8276^th place) and edited by 5176 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1893^rd place).

Riga is on the 327^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 158^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 303 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 90672 times in all languages (1721^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #141 in June 2005
• Global: #232 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2109 in May 2022
• Global: #3312 in November 2013

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	Finnish (fi) Riika		100
2	Hungarian (hu) Riga		98.274
3	German (de) Riga		95.064
4	Danish (da) Riga		86.7143
5	Slovenian (sl) Riga		83.2043
6	Chinese (zh) 里加		80.8501
7	French (fr) Riga		78.713
8	English (en) Riga		74.7497
9	Russian (ru) Рига		72.7766
10	Spanish (es) Riga		71.142

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Riga		9 965 052
2	Russian (ru) Рига		5 247 458
3	German (de) Riga		4 519 425
4	Polish (pl) Ryga		1 841 887
5	Italian (it) Riga		1 543 358
6	French (fr) Riga		1 463 244
7	Spanish (es) Riga		1 388 806
8	Dutch (nl) Riga		838 075
9	Swedish (sv) Riga		742 591
10	Finnish (fi) Riika		690 605

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) Riga		34 093
2	German (de) Riga		15 075
3	Russian (ru) Рига		13 000
4	Polish (pl) Ryga		5 862
5	Italian (it) Riga		3 764
6	Finnish (fi) Riika		3 681
7	French (fr) Riga		3 382
8	Spanish (es) Riga		3 262
9	Dutch (nl) Riga		1 858
10	Swedish (sv) Riga		1 822

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Riga		907
2	German (de) Riga		539
3	Russian (ru) Рига		461
4	French (fr) Riga		308
5	Italian (it) Riga		245
6	Dutch (nl) Riga		183
7	Polish (pl) Ryga		162
8	Finnish (fi) Riika		144
9	Spanish (es) Riga		143
10	Swedish (sv) Riga		130

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	English (en) Riga		7
2	Czech (cs) Riga		2
3	German (de) Riga		2
4	French (fr) Riga		2
5	Hungarian (hu) Riga		2
6	Vietnamese (vi) Riga		2
7	Catalan (ca) Riga		1
8	Basque (eu) Riga		1
9	Finnish (fi) Riika		1
10	Kazakh (kk) Рига		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