Sidon

Sidon - capital city of South Governorate, Lebanon. This city is the 1186^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 857^th most popular city in French Wikipedia. Article “Sidon” in French Wikipedia has 45.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 39 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.37 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Sidon” was edited by 2 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sidon”, its content was written by 160 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 1717 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sidon is on the 857^th place in local ranking of cities in French Wikipedia and on the 1186^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 757 times in French Wikipedia and cited 12990 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #3374 in May 2005
• Global: #2981 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #26615 in September 2024
• Global: #28752 in September 2024

There are 48 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	Arabic (ar) صيدا		97.9254
2	Hebrew (he) צידון		88.9355
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Sidon		82.1714
4	English (en) Sidon		75.7692
5	Slovenian (sl) Sidon		66.3015
6	Ukrainian (uk) Сайда (місто)		56.856
7	Tamil (ta) சிதோன்		54.6662
8	French (fr) Sidon		45.0888
9	Polish (pl) Sydon		38.8992
10	German (de) Sidon		38.236

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Sidon" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sidon		2 379 693
2	Arabic (ar) صيدا		521 202
3	Spanish (es) Sidón		388 931
4	French (fr) Sidon		368 307
5	German (de) Sidon		354 669
6	Russian (ru) Сайда (город)		318 649
7	Portuguese (pt) Sídon		279 842
8	Italian (it) Sidone		227 949
9	Polish (pl) Sydon		167 609
10	Hebrew (he) צידון		136 602

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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 "Sidon" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sidon		12 653
2	Arabic (ar) صيدا		1 885
3	Russian (ru) Сайда (город)		1 801
4	French (fr) Sidon		1 556
5	Spanish (es) Sidón		1 349
6	German (de) Sidon		1 230
7	Portuguese (pt) Sídon		982
8	Italian (it) Sidone		842
9	Turkish (tr) Sayda		634
10	Polish (pl) Sydon		586

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sidon		450
2	French (fr) Sidon		160
3	German (de) Sidon		142
4	Hebrew (he) צידון		91
5	Italian (it) Sidone		88
6	Dutch (nl) Sidon		76
7	Arabic (ar) صيدا		73
8	Russian (ru) Сайда (город)		65
9	Norwegian (no) Sayda (Libanon)		37
10	Spanish (es) Sidón		36

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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 "Sidon" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) صيدا		3
2	English (en) Sidon		3
3	French (fr) Sidon		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Sayda (şəhər)		1
5	Hebrew (he) צידון		1
6	Indonesian (id) Sidon		1
7	Belarusian (be) Сайда		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Сайда		0
9	Catalan (ca) Sidó		0
10	Czech (cs) Sidón		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 "Sidon" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Sidon		2 335
2	Arabic (ar) صيدا		1 612
3	Hebrew (he) צידון		1 139
4	French (fr) Sidon		757
5	Russian (ru) Сайда (город)		552
6	German (de) Sidon		493
7	Italian (it) Sidone		483
8	Norwegian (no) Sayda (Libanon)		480
9	Spanish (es) Sidón		432
10	Ukrainian (uk) Сайда (місто)		364

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic صيدا
az	Azerbaijani Sayda (şəhər)
be	Belarusian Сайда
bg	Bulgarian Сайда
ca	Catalan Sidó
cs	Czech Sidón
de	German Sidon
el	Greek Σιδώνα
en	English Sidon
eo	Esperanto Cidono
es	Spanish Sidón
et	Estonian Siidon
eu	Basque Sidon
fa	Persian صیدا
fi	Finnish Sidon
fr	French Sidon
gl	Galician Sidón
he	Hebrew צידון
hr	Croatian Sidon
hu	Hungarian Szidón
hy	Armenian Սայդա
id	Indonesian Sidon
it	Italian Sidone
ja	Japanese サイダ
ka	Georgian სიდონი
ko	Korean 시돈
la	Latin Sidon
lt	Lithuanian Sidonas
ms	Malay Sidon
nl	Dutch Sidon
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Sidon
no	Norwegian Sayda (Libanon)
pl	Polish Sydon
pt	Portuguese Sídon
ro	Romanian Sidon
ru	Russian Сайда (город)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Sidon
simple	Simple English Sidon
sl	Slovenian Sidon
sr	Serbian Сидон
sv	Swedish Sayda
ta	Tamil சிதோன்
th	Thai ไซดอน
tr	Turkish Sayda
uk	Ukrainian Сайда (місто)
ur	Urdu صیدا
uz	Uzbek Saydo
zh	Chinese 赛达 (黎巴嫩)

Best Rank

French: #26615 09.2024

Global: #28752 09.2024

Best Rank

French: #3374 05.2005

Global: #2981 09.2001

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