Qanat

Qanat - underground canal in hot and dry areas, to draw drinking water and process water from higher regions. Article “Qanat” in Catalan Wikipedia has 90.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 110 references and 33 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.75 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Qanat” was edited by 1 authors in Catalan Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Qanat”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Catalan Wikipedia and edited by 1356 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 54 times in Catalan Wikipedia and cited 3506 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Catalan): #247 in January 2025
• Global: #8493 in April 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Catalan): #10576 in January 2021
• Global: #17282 in November 2023

There are 41 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	Dutch (nl) Qanat		98.5696
2	Croatian (hr) Kanat		95.5646
3	English (en) Qanat		90.3057
4	Catalan (ca) Qanat		90.2488
5	Slovenian (sl) Kanat		84.6647
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kanat		78.0464
7	Bulgarian (bg) Ганат		71.3834
8	Hungarian (hu) Qanat		62.2573
9	Persian (fa) قنات		60.629
10	Polish (pl) Kanat		55.8432

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Qanat		2 399 895
2	Persian (fa) قنات		980 522
3	Japanese (ja) カナート		397 053
4	German (de) Qanat		335 958
5	Chinese (zh) 坎兒井		194 194
6	French (fr) Qanat		175 163
7	Russian (ru) Кяриз		145 665
8	Spanish (es) Qanat		135 906
9	Italian (it) Qanat		121 556
10	Dutch (nl) Qanat		69 256

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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 "Qanat" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Qanat		48 955
2	German (de) Qanat		3 312
3	Chinese (zh) 坎兒井		2 137
4	Japanese (ja) カナート		1 660
5	Russian (ru) Кяриз		1 358
6	French (fr) Qanat		907
7	Italian (it) Qanat		608
8	Persian (fa) قنات		415
9	Spanish (es) Qanat		366
10	Dutch (nl) Qanat		319

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Qanat		370
2	Persian (fa) قنات		123
3	French (fr) Qanat		118
4	German (de) Qanat		114
5	Italian (it) Qanat		81
6	Dutch (nl) Qanat		57
7	Russian (ru) Кяриз		51
8	Japanese (ja) カナート		39
9	Chinese (zh) 坎兒井		34
10	Spanish (es) Qanat		31

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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 "Qanat" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 坎兒井		3
2	Arabic (ar) قناة (ري)		2
3	Portuguese (pt) Qanat		2
4	Catalan (ca) Qanat		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Kəhriz		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Ганат		0
7	Czech (cs) Kanát		0
8	Danish (da) Kareze		0
9	German (de) Qanat		0
10	Greek (el) Κανάτ		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 "Qanat" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Persian (fa) قنات		571
2	English (en) Qanat		553
3	Arabic (ar) قناة (ري)		357
4	Chinese (zh) 坎兒井		248
5	French (fr) Qanat		228
6	Italian (it) Qanat		171
7	Danish (da) Kareze		169
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kanat		137
9	German (de) Qanat		126
10	Japanese (ja) カナート		82

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قناة (ري)
az	Azerbaijani Kəhriz
bg	Bulgarian Ганат
ca	Catalan Qanat
cs	Czech Kanát
da	Danish Kareze
de	German Qanat
el	Greek Κανάτ
en	English Qanat
eo	Esperanto Kanato
es	Spanish Qanat
eu	Basque Qanat
fa	Persian قنات
fr	French Qanat
he	Hebrew פוגארה
hi	Hindi कारेज़
hr	Croatian Kanat
hu	Hungarian Qanat
it	Italian Qanat
ja	Japanese カナート
kk	Kazakh Кәріз
ko	Korean 카나트
lt	Lithuanian Kiarizas
ms	Malay Qanat
nl	Dutch Qanat
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Qanat
no	Norwegian Qanat
pl	Polish Kanat
pt	Portuguese Qanat
ru	Russian Кяриз
sh	Serbo-Croatian Kanat
simple	Simple English Qanat
sl	Slovenian Kanat
sr	Serbian Канат (наводњавање)
sv	Swedish Qanat
th	Thai กะนาต
tr	Turkish Kehriz
uk	Ukrainian Кяриз
ur	Urdu کاریز
uz	Uzbek Koriz
zh	Chinese 坎兒井

Best Rank

Catalan: #10576 01.2021

Global: #17282 11.2023

Best Rank

Catalan: #247 01.2025

Global: #8493 04.2020

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