Basra

Quality:

Basra - capital of Basra Governorate, in southern Iraq. This city is the 806^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 782^nd most popular city in Danish Wikipedia. Article “Basra” in Danish Wikipedia has 30.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Danish Wikipedia:

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The 8774^th most editable in Danish Wikipedia.

The 782^nd most popular in cities in Danish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 806^th most popular in cities.

Since the creation of article “Basra”, its content was written by 48 registered users of Danish Wikipedia (8774^th place) and edited by 2267 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Basra is on the 782^nd place in local ranking of cities in Danish Wikipedia and on the 806^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 58 times in Danish Wikipedia and cited 19488 times in all languages (8861^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Danish): #206 in April 2003
• Global: #45 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Danish): #2505 in July 2014
• Global: #19179 in March 2026

There are 52 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	English (en) Basra		100
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Basra		100
3	Arabic (ar) البصرة		78.7528
4	Slovenian (sl) Basra		73.8292
5	Spanish (es) Basora		63.6068
6	Chinese (zh) 巴士拉		63.2383
7	Thai (th) บัสรา		47.9827
8	German (de) Basra		47.6066
9	Russian (ru) Басра		41.6163
10	Portuguese (pt) Baçorá		39.0957

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basra		3 853 917
2	Arabic (ar) البصرة		1 595 070
3	Persian (fa) بصره		470 437
4	German (de) Basra		454 192
5	Russian (ru) Басра		391 238
6	French (fr) Bassorah		354 568
7	Spanish (es) Basora		317 079
8	Japanese (ja) バスラ		232 420
9	Turkish (tr) Basra		228 641
10	Polish (pl) Basra		218 962

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) Basra		16 206
2	German (de) Basra		2 362
3	Persian (fa) بصره		2 215
4	French (fr) Bassorah		1 939
5	Russian (ru) Басра		1 623
6	Spanish (es) Basora		1 125
7	Italian (it) Bassora		789
8	Japanese (ja) バスラ		764
9	Chinese (zh) 巴士拉		693
10	Turkish (tr) Basra		630

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basra		589
2	Arabic (ar) البصرة		270
3	German (de) Basra		152
4	French (fr) Bassorah		126
5	Russian (ru) Басра		91
6	Italian (it) Bassora		79
7	Dutch (nl) Basra		75
8	Persian (fa) بصره		74
9	Spanish (es) Basora		57
10	Hebrew (he) בצרה (עיראק)		57

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) Basra		5
2	Arabic (ar) البصرة		3
3	Finnish (fi) Basra		1
4	French (fr) Bassorah		1
5	Portuguese (pt) Baçorá		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Bəsrə		0
7	Belarusian (be) Басра		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Басра		0
9	Catalan (ca) Bàssora		0
10	Czech (cs) Basra		0

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

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