Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz - city in and county seat of Santa Cruz County, California, United States. This city is the 969^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 534^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Santa Cruz, California” in English Wikipedia has 88.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 104 references and 31 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Santa Cruz, California” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Santa Cruz, California”, its content was written by 706 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1309 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Santa Cruz is on the 534^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 969^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 3068 times in English Wikipedia (9659^th place) and cited 8596 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1645 in September 2002
• Global: #2993 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #21230 in July 2010
• Global: #32675 in July 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, 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) Santa Cruz, California		88.4014
2	Hebrew (he) סנטה קרוז (עיר, קליפורניה)		60.7219
3	Japanese (ja) サンタクルーズ (カリフォルニア州)		50.2197
4	Simple English (simple) Santa Cruz, California		46.5221
5	Indonesian (id) Santa Cruz, California		42.5473
6	Ukrainian (uk) Санта-Крус (Каліфорнія)		42.1094
7	Finnish (fi) Santa Cruz (Kalifornia)		36.0989
8	German (de) Santa Cruz (Kalifornien)		34.9902
9	Hungarian (hu) Santa Cruz (Kalifornia)		32.2119
10	Greek (el) Σάντα Κρουζ (Καλιφόρνια)		31.5886

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Santa Cruz, California" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Santa Cruz, California		5 449 247
2	German (de) Santa Cruz (Kalifornien)		356 764
3	French (fr) Santa Cruz (Californie)		252 661
4	Spanish (es) Santa Cruz (California)		205 155
5	Italian (it) Santa Cruz (California)		184 829
6	Japanese (ja) サンタクルーズ (カリフォルニア州)		154 734
7	Russian (ru) Санта-Круз (Калифорния)		139 307
8	Polish (pl) Santa Cruz (Kalifornia)		76 217
9	Chinese (zh) 聖塔克魯茲 (加利福尼亞州)		72 496
10	Portuguese (pt) Santa Cruz (Califórnia)		60 058

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Santa Cruz, California" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Santa Cruz, California		20 114
2	Polish (pl) Santa Cruz (Kalifornia)		3 018
3	French (fr) Santa Cruz (Californie)		959
4	Italian (it) Santa Cruz (California)		878
5	German (de) Santa Cruz (Kalifornien)		840
6	Japanese (ja) サンタクルーズ (カリフォルニア州)		738
7	Spanish (es) Santa Cruz (California)		668
8	Russian (ru) Санта-Круз (Калифорния)		610
9	Chinese (zh) 聖塔克魯茲 (加利福尼亞州)		533
10	Simple English (simple) Santa Cruz, California		258

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

Language versions of the article "Santa Cruz, California" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Santa Cruz, California		706
2	German (de) Santa Cruz (Kalifornien)		97
3	Italian (it) Santa Cruz (California)		68
4	French (fr) Santa Cruz (Californie)		64
5	Dutch (nl) Santa Cruz (Californië)		40
6	Spanish (es) Santa Cruz (California)		29
7	Russian (ru) Санта-Круз (Калифорния)		29
8	Polish (pl) Santa Cruz (Kalifornia)		26
9	Chinese (zh) 聖塔克魯茲 (加利福尼亞州)		23
10	Danish (da) Santa Cruz (Californien)		19

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

Language versions of the article "Santa Cruz, California" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Santa Cruz, California		2
2	Spanish (es) Santa Cruz (California)		1
3	Arabic (ar) سانتا كروز (كاليفورنيا)		0
4	Belarusian (be) Санта-Круз (Каліфорнія)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Санта Крус (Калифорния)		0
6	Catalan (ca) Santa Cruz (Califòrnia)		0
7	Czech (cs) Santa Cruz (Kalifornie)		0
8	Danish (da) Santa Cruz (Californien)		0
9	German (de) Santa Cruz (Kalifornien)		0
10	Greek (el) Σάντα Κρουζ (Καλιφόρνια)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Santa Cruz, California" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Santa Cruz, California		3 068
2	Arabic (ar) سانتا كروز (كاليفورنيا)		637
3	Italian (it) Santa Cruz (California)		553
4	Japanese (ja) サンタクルーズ (カリフォルニア州)		508
5	French (fr) Santa Cruz (Californie)		431
6	German (de) Santa Cruz (Kalifornien)		320
7	Chinese (zh) 聖塔克魯茲 (加利福尼亞州)		303
8	Spanish (es) Santa Cruz (California)		289
9	Dutch (nl) Santa Cruz (Californië)		267
10	Russian (ru) Санта-Круз (Калифорния)		209

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سانتا كروز (كاليفورنيا)
be	Belarusian Санта-Круз (Каліфорнія)
bg	Bulgarian Санта Крус (Калифорния)
ca	Catalan Santa Cruz (Califòrnia)
cs	Czech Santa Cruz (Kalifornie)
da	Danish Santa Cruz (Californien)
de	German Santa Cruz (Kalifornien)
el	Greek Σάντα Κρουζ (Καλιφόρνια)
en	English Santa Cruz, California
eo	Esperanto Santa Cruz (Kalifornio)
es	Spanish Santa Cruz (California)
eu	Basque Santa Cruz (Kalifornia)
fa	Persian سانتا کروز (کالیفرنیا)
fi	Finnish Santa Cruz (Kalifornia)
fr	French Santa Cruz (Californie)
he	Hebrew סנטה קרוז (עיר, קליפורניה)
hr	Croatian Santa Cruz (Kalifornija)
hu	Hungarian Santa Cruz (Kalifornia)
id	Indonesian Santa Cruz, California
it	Italian Santa Cruz (California)
ja	Japanese サンタクルーズ (カリフォルニア州)
kk	Kazakh Санта-Круз (Калифорния)
ko	Korean 샌타크루즈
nl	Dutch Santa Cruz (Californië)
no	Norwegian Santa Cruz (California)
pl	Polish Santa Cruz (Kalifornia)
pt	Portuguese Santa Cruz (Califórnia)
ro	Romanian Santa Cruz, California
ru	Russian Санта-Круз (Калифорния)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Santa Cruz, California
simple	Simple English Santa Cruz, California
sr	Serbian Санта Круз (Калифорнија)
sv	Swedish Santa Cruz, Kalifornien
tr	Turkish Santa Cruz, Kaliforniya
uk	Ukrainian Санта-Крус (Каліфорнія)
ur	Urdu سانتا کروز، کیلیفورنیا
uz	Uzbek Santa Cruz (California)
vi	Vietnamese Santa Cruz, California
zh	Chinese 聖塔克魯茲 (加利福尼亞州)

Best Rank

English: #21230 07.2010

Global: #32675 07.2010

Best Rank

English: #1645 09.2002

Global: #2993 09.2002

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