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Kirkuk

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Kirkuk - city in Iraq. This city is the 1424th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities. Article “Kirkuk” in German Wikipedia has 69.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 53 references and 22 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.66 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 1424th most popular in cities.

In June 2026 the article “Kirkuk” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Kirkuk”, its content was written by 205 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 2288 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Kirkuk is on the 1424th place in global ranking of cities on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 273 times in German Wikipedia and cited 5799 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #273 in October 2017
  • Global: #148 in October 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #6827 in October 2017
  • Global: #7643 in October 2017

There are 47 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Kirkuk
86.2798
2Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Kirkuk
80
3German (de)
Kirkuk
69.5303
4Arabic (ar)
كركوك
63.4401
5Russian (ru)
Киркук
56.0274
6Slovenian (sl)
Kirkuk
54.3772
7Persian (fa)
کرکوک
52.3779
8Turkish (tr)
Kerkük
47.4972
9Norwegian (no)
Kirkuk
45.0682
10Malay (ms)
Kirkuk
38.3612
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Kirkuk" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Kirkuk
1 912 716
2Arabic (ar)
كركوك
766 158
3Turkish (tr)
Kerkük
681 579
4German (de)
Kirkuk
380 077
5Persian (fa)
کرکوک
324 412
6Russian (ru)
Киркук
243 522
7French (fr)
Kirkouk
138 325
8Polish (pl)
Kirkuk
96 875
9Japanese (ja)
キルクーク
96 002
10Italian (it)
Kirkuk
91 784
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Kirkuk" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Kirkuk
6 749
2Turkish (tr)
Kerkük
2 229
3Persian (fa)
کرکوک
1 533
4German (de)
Kirkuk
861
5Italian (it)
Kirkuk
774
6Russian (ru)
Киркук
771
7Spanish (es)
Kirkuk
559
8French (fr)
Kirkouk
422
9Japanese (ja)
キルクーク
302
10Polish (pl)
Kirkuk
247
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Kirkuk" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Kirkuk
682
2Arabic (ar)
كركوك
218
3German (de)
Kirkuk
205
4Turkish (tr)
Kerkük
201
5Persian (fa)
کرکوک
133
6Dutch (nl)
Kirkuk (plaats)
103
7French (fr)
Kirkouk
92
8Russian (ru)
Киркук
62
9Hebrew (he)
כירכוכ
60
10Danish (da)
Kirkuk
56
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Kirkuk" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
كركوك
6
2Russian (ru)
Киркук
2
3Turkish (tr)
Kerkük
2
4German (de)
Kirkuk
1
5Japanese (ja)
キルクーク
1
6Thai (th)
คีร์คูก
1
7Azerbaijani (az)
Kərkük
0
8Belarusian (be)
Кіркук
0
9Bulgarian (bg)
Киркук
0
10Catalan (ca)
Kirkuk
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Kirkuk" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Arabic (ar)
كركوك
1 087
2English (en)
Kirkuk
1 029
3Persian (fa)
کرکوک
300
4German (de)
Kirkuk
273
5French (fr)
Kirkouk
271
6Russian (ru)
Киркук
268
7Hebrew (he)
כירכוכ
246
8Turkish (tr)
Kerkük
230
9Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Kirkuk
164
10Spanish (es)
Kirkuk
144
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in June 2026:
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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
German:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
كركوك
azAzerbaijani
Kərkük
beBelarusian
Кіркук
bgBulgarian
Киркук
caCatalan
Kirkuk
csCzech
Kirkúk
daDanish
Kirkuk
deGerman
Kirkuk
elGreek
Κιρκούκ
enEnglish
Kirkuk
eoEsperanto
Kirkuk
esSpanish
Kirkuk
etEstonian
Kirkūk
euBasque
Kirkuk
faPersian
کرکوک
fiFinnish
Kirkuk
frFrench
Kirkouk
heHebrew
כירכוכ
hrCroatian
Kirkuk
huHungarian
Kirkuk
hyArmenian
Քիրքուք
idIndonesian
Kirkuk
itItalian
Kirkuk
jaJapanese
キルクーク
kaGeorgian
ქირქუქი
koKorean
키르쿠크
ltLithuanian
Kirkukas
msMalay
Kirkuk
nlDutch
Kirkuk (plaats)
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Kirkuk
noNorwegian
Kirkuk
plPolish
Kirkuk
ptPortuguese
Quircuque
roRomanian
Kirkuk
ruRussian
Киркук
shSerbo-Croatian
Kirkuk
skSlovak
Karkúk
slSlovenian
Kirkuk
srSerbian
Киркук
svSwedish
Kirkuk
taTamil
கிர்குக் நகரம்
thThai
คีร์คูก
trTurkish
Kerkük
ukUkrainian
Кіркук
urUrdu
کرکوک
uzUzbek
Karkuk
zhChinese
基爾庫克

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#6827
10.2017
Global:
#7643
10.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#273
10.2017
Global:
#148
10.2017

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Kirkuk from Wikipedia articles about Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Iraq, Kirkuk Governorate, Aymen Hussein and List of cities in Iraq. Whereas reading the article about Kirkuk people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Kirkuk Governorate, Iraqi Turkmen, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Kirkuk Citadel and Disputed territories of Northern Iraq.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: Kirkuk
de: Kirkuk
pl: Kirkuk
it: Kirkuk
es: Kirkuk
sv: Kirkuk
fi: Kirkuk
no: Kirkuk
da: Kirkuk
hu: Kirkuk
id: Kirkuk
ca: Kirkuk
ro: Kirkuk
hr: Kirkuk
eo: Kirkuk
eu: Kirkuk
sh: Kirkuk
ms: Kirkuk
nn: Kirkuk
uz: Karkuk
sl: Kirkuk

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In German Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Demokratische Republik Kongo, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2026, Senegal, Julian Nagelsmann, Erling Haaland, Sadio Mané, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1994, Jürgen Klopp, Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2028, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft.

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