Aachen

Quality:

Aachen - city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This city is the 214^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 399^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Aachen” in English Wikipedia has 91.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 173 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 399^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9570^th most popular in all topics.

The 2633^rd most popular in AI.

The 214^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8804^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Aachen” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Aachen”, its content was written by 735 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 4689 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2633^rd place).

Aachen is on the 399^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 214^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 3544 times in English Wikipedia (8321^st place) and cited 36779 times in all languages (4590^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #92 in August 2001
• Global: #100 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17189 in July 2021
• Global: #5324 in November 2025

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 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	German (de) Aachen		92.1505
2	English (en) Aachen		91.9375
3	Spanish (es) Aquisgrán		67.3831
4	Slovenian (sl) Aachen		64.2647
5	Russian (ru) Ахен		59.4358
6	Dutch (nl) Aken (stad)		57.489
7	Slovak (sk) Aachen		55.3008
8	Hebrew (he) אאכן		55.2916
9	Indonesian (id) Aachen		53.99
10	Estonian (et) Aachen		49.7739

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Aachen		8 072 411
2	English (en) Aachen		7 590 717
3	French (fr) Aix-la-Chapelle		2 615 991
4	Spanish (es) Aquisgrán		1 760 226
5	Italian (it) Aquisgrana		1 645 003
6	Polish (pl) Akwizgran		1 187 416
7	Russian (ru) Ахен		1 180 141
8	Dutch (nl) Aken (stad)		1 084 591
9	Japanese (ja) アーヘン		439 181
10	Portuguese (pt) Aachen		369 419

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		34 425
2	German (de) Aachen		24 681
3	French (fr) Aix-la-Chapelle		10 086
4	Italian (it) Aquisgrana		6 292
5	Spanish (es) Aquisgrán		5 921
6	Polish (pl) Akwizgran		4 867
7	Russian (ru) Ахен		4 197
8	Dutch (nl) Aken (stad)		3 252
9	Japanese (ja) アーヘン		1 921
10	Portuguese (pt) Aachen		1 727

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Aachen		1 079
2	English (en) Aachen		735
3	French (fr) Aix-la-Chapelle		310
4	Dutch (nl) Aken (stad)		276
5	Italian (it) Aquisgrana		179
6	Russian (ru) Ахен		173
7	Spanish (es) Aquisgrán		130
8	Polish (pl) Akwizgran		110
9	Hungarian (hu) Aachen		92
10	Hebrew (he) אאכן		84

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		7
2	German (de) Aachen		3
3	Hungarian (hu) Aachen		2
4	Spanish (es) Aquisgrán		1
5	French (fr) Aix-la-Chapelle		1
6	Hebrew (he) אאכן		1
7	Romanian (ro) Aachen		1
8	Simple English (simple) Aachen		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 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