Springfield, Illinois

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Springfield - capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois and county seat of Sangamon County. This city is the 891^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 310^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Springfield, Illinois” in Simple English Wikipedia has 50.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 5530^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 310^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 891^st most popular in cities.

Since the creation of article “Springfield, Illinois”, its content was written by 34 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5530^th place) and edited by 2154 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Springfield is on the 310^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 891^st place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 237 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13300 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #436 in December 2012
• Global: #339 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3097 in May 2017
• Global: #17271 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, 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	English (en) Springfield, Illinois		92.5591
2	Chinese (zh) 斯普林菲尔德 (伊利诺伊州)		54.255
3	Simple English (simple) Springfield, Illinois		50.4187
4	Ukrainian (uk) Спрингфілд (Іллінойс)		45.3458
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Springfield i Illinois		43.4481
6	Catalan (ca) Springfield (Illinois)		41.0455
7	Romanian (ro) Springfield, Illinois		39.9176
8	German (de) Springfield (Illinois)		37.4492
9	Spanish (es) Springfield (Illinois)		34.5358
10	Galician (gl) Springfield, Illinois		33.8777

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Springfield, Illinois		4 657 193
2	German (de) Springfield (Illinois)		564 206
3	Spanish (es) Springfield (Illinois)		506 685
4	Russian (ru) Спрингфилд (Иллинойс)		425 521
5	Italian (it) Springfield (Illinois)		382 659
6	French (fr) Springfield (Illinois)		354 724
7	Polish (pl) Springfield (Illinois)		174 607
8	Portuguese (pt) Springfield (Illinois)		169 337
9	Japanese (ja) スプリングフィールド (イリノイ州)		164 967
10	Chinese (zh) 斯普林菲尔德 (伊利诺伊州)		151 476

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		17 212
2	Russian (ru) Спрингфилд (Иллинойс)		1 335
3	Spanish (es) Springfield (Illinois)		1 251
4	German (de) Springfield (Illinois)		1 220
5	Italian (it) Springfield (Illinois)		975
6	French (fr) Springfield (Illinois)		823
7	Chinese (zh) 斯普林菲尔德 (伊利诺伊州)		739
8	Polish (pl) Springfield (Illinois)		699
9	Japanese (ja) スプリングフィールド (イリノイ州)		637
10	Portuguese (pt) Springfield (Illinois)		418

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		638
2	German (de) Springfield (Illinois)		182
3	French (fr) Springfield (Illinois)		120
4	Spanish (es) Springfield (Illinois)		85
5	Italian (it) Springfield (Illinois)		85
6	Russian (ru) Спрингфилд (Иллинойс)		80
7	Dutch (nl) Springfield (Illinois)		64
8	Hebrew (he) ספרינגפילד (אילינוי)		60
9	Danish (da) Springfield (Illinois)		53
10	Chinese (zh) 斯普林菲尔德 (伊利诺伊州)		51

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		2
2	Arabic (ar) سبرينغفيلد (إلينوي)		1
3	Dutch (nl) Springfield (Illinois)		1
4	Russian (ru) Спрингфилд (Иллинойс)		1
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Springfield, Illinois		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Спрингфілд (Іллінойс)		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Sprinqfild (İllinoys)		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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