Soweto

Quality:

Soweto - township of South Africa. This city is the 1122^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 729^th most popular city in Swedish Wikipedia. Article “Soweto” in Swedish Wikipedia has 29.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Swedish Wikipedia:

The 729^th most popular in cities in Swedish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1122^nd most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Swedish Wikipedia:

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The 9785^th most editable in Swedish Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Soweto” was edited by 1 authors in Swedish Wikipedia (9785^th place) and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Soweto”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Swedish Wikipedia and edited by 1140 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Soweto is on the 729^th place in local ranking of cities in Swedish Wikipedia and on the 1122^nd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 63 times in Swedish Wikipedia and cited 5395 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Swedish): #869 in March 2024
• Global: #4052 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Swedish): #1122 in November 2025
• Global: #7668 in June 2010

There are 39 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) Soweto		85.9829
2	German (de) Soweto		85.6401
3	Chinese (zh) 索韦托		53.2021
4	Dutch (nl) Soweto		48.8975
5	Czech (cs) Soweto		34.8326
6	Armenian (hy) Սոուեթո		32.6509
7	Hungarian (hu) Soweto		32.6477
8	Italian (it) Soweto		31.4895
9	Ukrainian (uk) Совето		29.8332
10	Swedish (sv) Soweto		29.3189

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Soweto		4 015 507
2	French (fr) Soweto		594 013
3	German (de) Soweto		587 059
4	Spanish (es) Soweto		267 679
5	Italian (it) Soweto		219 392
6	Portuguese (pt) Soweto		197 556
7	Dutch (nl) Soweto		144 303
8	Japanese (ja) ソウェト		127 538
9	Russian (ru) Соуэто		116 099
10	Polish (pl) Soweto		100 959

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) Soweto		15 366
2	German (de) Soweto		5 231
3	French (fr) Soweto		2 104
4	Spanish (es) Soweto		1 781
5	Italian (it) Soweto		1 683
6	Portuguese (pt) Soweto		974
7	Russian (ru) Соуэто		940
8	Polish (pl) Soweto		856
9	Dutch (nl) Soweto		562
10	Japanese (ja) ソウェト		522

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Soweto		406
2	German (de) Soweto		112
3	Dutch (nl) Soweto		69
4	French (fr) Soweto		67
5	Italian (it) Soweto		60
6	Russian (ru) Соуэто		33
7	Hebrew (he) סווטו		32
8	Spanish (es) Soweto		30
9	Danish (da) Soweto		27
10	Swedish (sv) Soweto		26

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) Soweto		4
2	German (de) Soweto		2
3	Greek (el) Σοβέτο		1
4	Basque (eu) Soweto		1
5	Swedish (sv) Soweto		1
6	Turkish (tr) Soweto		1
7	Arabic (ar) سويتو		0
8	Catalan (ca) Soweto		0
9	Czech (cs) Soweto		0
10	Danish (da) Soweto		0

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

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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