Aachen

Quality:

Aachen - city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This city is the 179^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 345^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article "Aachen" in English Wikipedia has 90.8 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 140 references and 45 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 345^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9823^rd most popular in all topics.

The 2591^st most popular in AI.

The 179^th most popular in cities.

In July 2024 the article "Aachen" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Aachen", its content was written by 684 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 4551 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2591^st place).

Aachen is on the 345^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 179^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 3567 times in English Wikipedia (7096^th place) and cited 34700 times in all languages (4566^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #25 in August 2001
• Global: #33 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17113 in July 2021
• Global: #6723 in December 2014

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 August 1, 2024 (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	German (de) Aachen		91.9761
2	English (en) Aachen		90.756
3	Spanish (es) Aquisgrán		68.7596
4	Slovenian (sl) Aachen		65.3008
5	Slovak (sk) Aachen		58.9477
6	Russian (ru) Ахен		58.0983
7	Hebrew (he) אאכן		55.0715
8	Estonian (et) Aachen		54.3869
9	Indonesian (id) Aachen		54.1739
10	Dutch (nl) Aken (stad)		50.3266

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Aachen		7 406 593
2	English (en) Aachen		6 775 947
3	French (fr) Aix-la-Chapelle		2 353 535
4	Spanish (es) Aquisgrán		1 596 916
5	Italian (it) Aquisgrana		1 484 018
6	Polish (pl) Akwizgran		1 064 447
7	Russian (ru) Ахен		1 004 262
8	Dutch (nl) Aken (stad)		989 576
9	Japanese (ja) アーヘン		386 783
10	Portuguese (pt) Aachen		320 794

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) Aachen		38 228
2	German (de) Aachen		27 382
3	French (fr) Aix-la-Chapelle		10 198
4	Spanish (es) Aquisgrán		7 711
5	Italian (it) Aquisgrana		6 664
6	Russian (ru) Ахен		6 609
7	Polish (pl) Akwizgran		5 448
8	Dutch (nl) Aken (stad)		4 700
9	Japanese (ja) アーヘン		2 424
10	Chinese (zh) 亚琛		2 360

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Aachen		1 049
2	English (en) Aachen		684
3	French (fr) Aix-la-Chapelle		291
4	Dutch (nl) Aken (stad)		268
5	Italian (it) Aquisgrana		176
6	Russian (ru) Ахен		170
7	Spanish (es) Aquisgrán		126
8	Polish (pl) Akwizgran		104
9	Hungarian (hu) Aachen		85
10	Hebrew (he) אאכן		80

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) Aachen		2
2	French (fr) Aix-la-Chapelle		2
3	Dutch (nl) Aken (stad)		2
4	German (de) Aachen		1
5	Basque (eu) Akisgran		1
6	Italian (it) Aquisgrana		1
7	Serbian (sr) Ахен		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Аахен		1
9	Arabic (ar) آخن		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Aaxen		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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from August, 2024. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from July 2024 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2023... More information