Town

Quality:

Small town - settlement that is smaller than a city but bigger than a large village (or a large borough in some areas) with a population of at least 5,000 and no more than 20,000. Article “Town” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 12 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Town”, its content was written by 60 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1943^rd place) and edited by 1933 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8302 times in Simple English Wikipedia (35^th place) and cited 196038 times in all languages (582^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #24 in October 2004
• Global: #2941 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #164 in July 2019
• Global: #7712 in August 2010

There are 43 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) Town		62.0212
2	Ukrainian (uk) Містечко		32.2312
3	Simple English (simple) Town		30.7259
4	Russian (ru) Малый город		30.3248
5	Indonesian (id) Kota kecil		28.3426
6	Latin (la) Oppidum		27.3008
7	Tamil (ta) நகரம்		26.9538
8	Hungarian (hu) Kisváros (fogalom)		26.8048
9	German (de) Kleinstadt		26.7566
10	Thai (th) เมือง		26.642

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Town		7 311 608
2	Spanish (es) Villa (población)		1 020 170
3	Portuguese (pt) Vila		712 768
4	German (de) Kleinstadt		658 176
5	French (fr) Bourg		464 044
6	Japanese (ja) 街		340 696
7	Simple English (simple) Town		239 408
8	Thai (th) เมือง		203 833
9	Georgian (ka) ქალაქი		155 239
10	Turkish (tr) Kasaba		152 746

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) Town		14 672
2	German (de) Kleinstadt		1 666
3	Spanish (es) Villa (población)		1 525
4	French (fr) Bourg		935
5	Portuguese (pt) Vila		826
6	Russian (ru) Малый город		605
7	Japanese (ja) 街		485
8	Chinese (zh) 鄉鎮		474
9	Turkish (tr) Kasaba		301
10	Simple English (simple) Town		236

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Town		880
2	French (fr) Bourg		87
3	German (de) Kleinstadt		83
4	Spanish (es) Villa (población)		66
5	Portuguese (pt) Vila		64
6	Simple English (simple) Town		60
7	Japanese (ja) 街		53
8	Ukrainian (uk) Містечко		53
9	Dutch (nl) Town		35
10	Chinese (zh) 鄉鎮		34

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) Town		4
2	Arabic (ar) بلدة		1
3	French (fr) Bourg		1
4	Japanese (ja) 街		1
5	Portuguese (pt) Vila		1
6	Russian (ru) Малый город		1
7	Turkish (tr) Kasaba		1
8	Urdu (ur) قصبہ		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Qəsəbə		0
10	Belarusian (be) Мястэчка		0

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

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