Springfield, Illinois

Quality:

Springfield - capital city of Illinois and county seat of Sangamon County. This city is the 874^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 260^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Springfield, Illinois” in Simple English Wikipedia has 52.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 7 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:

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The 5189^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 260^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 874^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 779^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Springfield, Illinois” was edited by 3 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (779^th place) and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Springfield, Illinois”, its content was written by 34 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5189^th place) and edited by 2175 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Springfield is on the 260^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 874^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 223 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12895 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #436 in December 2012
• Global: #336 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3089 in May 2017
• Global: #17138 in July 2012

There are 50 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) Springfield, Illinois		92.3912
2	Chinese (zh) 斯普林菲尔德 (伊利诺伊州)		54.3265
3	Simple English (simple) Springfield, Illinois		52.0954
4	Ukrainian (uk) Спрингфілд (Іллінойс)		45.6722
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Springfield i Illinois		43.4481
6	Catalan (ca) Springfield (Illinois)		40.9589
7	Romanian (ro) Springfield, Illinois		39.9264
8	German (de) Springfield (Illinois)		38.6426
9	Spanish (es) Springfield (Illinois)		35.6546
10	Czech (cs) Springfield (Illinois)		33.8092

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Springfield, Illinois		4 435 153
2	German (de) Springfield (Illinois)		545 093
3	Spanish (es) Springfield (Illinois)		488 693
4	Russian (ru) Спрингфилд (Иллинойс)		397 467
5	Italian (it) Springfield (Illinois)		367 148
6	French (fr) Springfield (Illinois)		342 979
7	Polish (pl) Springfield (Illinois)		165 508
8	Portuguese (pt) Springfield (Illinois)		164 104
9	Japanese (ja) スプリングフィールド (イリノイ州)		156 546
10	Chinese (zh) 斯普林菲尔德 (伊利诺伊州)		141 958

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) Springfield, Illinois		19 559
2	Russian (ru) Спрингфилд (Иллинойс)		1 838
3	Spanish (es) Springfield (Illinois)		1 555
4	Italian (it) Springfield (Illinois)		1 480
5	German (de) Springfield (Illinois)		1 456
6	French (fr) Springfield (Illinois)		1 082
7	Chinese (zh) 斯普林菲尔德 (伊利诺伊州)		791
8	Japanese (ja) スプリングフィールド (イリノイ州)		696
9	Polish (pl) Springfield (Illinois)		540
10	Simple English (simple) Springfield, Illinois		498

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Springfield, Illinois		624
2	German (de) Springfield (Illinois)		178
3	French (fr) Springfield (Illinois)		118
4	Spanish (es) Springfield (Illinois)		85
5	Italian (it) Springfield (Illinois)		84
6	Russian (ru) Спрингфилд (Иллинойс)		77
7	Dutch (nl) Springfield (Illinois)		63
8	Norwegian (no) Springfield (Illinois)		63
9	Hebrew (he) ספרינגפילד (אילינוי)		60
10	Danish (da) Springfield (Illinois)		53

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) Springfield, Illinois		5
2	Simple English (simple) Springfield, Illinois		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) Sprinqfild (İllinoys)		1
4	German (de) Springfield (Illinois)		1
5	Spanish (es) Springfield (Illinois)		1
6	Japanese (ja) スプリングフィールド (イリノイ州)		1
7	Arabic (ar) سبرينغفيلد (إلينوي)		0
8	Belarusian (be) Спрынгфілд (Ілінойс)		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Спрингфийлд (Илинойс)		0
10	Catalan (ca) Springfield (Illinois)		0

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

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