Sofia

Quality:

Sofia - capital city of Bulgaria. This city is the 173^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 293^rd most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Sofia” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Bulgarian 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 5876^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 293^rd most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7997^th most popular in all topics.

The 1923^rd most popular in AI.

The 173^rd most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5197^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9627^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4624^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Sofia”, its content was written by 32 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5876^th place) and edited by 5092 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1923^rd place).

Sofia is on the 293^rd place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 173^rd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 255 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 100215 times in all languages (1356^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #349 in June 2009
• Global: #171 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2247 in October 2016
• Global: #4549 in July 2009

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, 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	Bulgarian (bg) София		96.9214
2	English (en) Sofia		92.9299
3	Arabic (ar) صوفيا		92.8022
4	Italian (it) Sofia		92.5734
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Sofia		91.9408
6	Chinese (zh) 索菲亞		87.4794
7	Catalan (ca) Sofia		85.9852
8	German (de) Sofia		80.5459
9	Slovenian (sl) Sofija		79.6237
10	Spanish (es) Sofía		77.8911

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sofia		10 222 666
2	Bulgarian (bg) София		3 866 306
3	German (de) Sofia		2 306 738
4	Spanish (es) Sofía		2 070 981
5	Russian (ru) София		2 059 072
6	Italian (it) Sofia		1 724 995
7	French (fr) Sofia		1 283 396
8	Polish (pl) Sofia		997 427
9	Turkish (tr) Sofya		549 589
10	Japanese (ja) ソフィア (ブルガリア)		482 261

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) Sofia		43 685
2	Bulgarian (bg) София		12 666
3	Russian (ru) София		7 749
4	German (de) Sofia		6 695
5	Spanish (es) Sofía		5 838
6	Italian (it) Sofia		5 313
7	French (fr) Sofia		4 108
8	Polish (pl) Sofia		3 879
9	Chinese (zh) 索菲亞		2 240
10	Turkish (tr) Sofya		2 023

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sofia		1 021
2	German (de) Sofia		397
3	Bulgarian (bg) София		378
4	French (fr) Sofia		279
5	Russian (ru) София		240
6	Spanish (es) Sofía		229
7	Italian (it) Sofia		229
8	Dutch (nl) Sofia (stad)		164
9	Polish (pl) Sofia		126
10	Japanese (ja) ソフィア (ブルガリア)		115

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	Bulgarian (bg) София		10
2	English (en) Sofia		7
3	Russian (ru) София		3
4	Arabic (ar) صوفيا		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Sofiya		1
6	Catalan (ca) Sofia		1
7	Spanish (es) Sofía		1
8	Hebrew (he) סופיה		1
9	Italian (it) Sofia		1
10	Japanese (ja) ソフィア (ブルガリア)		1

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

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