Samarqand

Quality:

Samarkand - city in southeastern Uzbekistan. This city is the 228^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 742^nd most popular city in German Wikipedia. Article “Samarqand” in German Wikipedia has 58 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 19 references and 27 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

The 742^nd most popular in cities in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4795^th most popular in AI.

The 228^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7757^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9770^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Samarqand” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages (9770^th place).

Since the creation of article “Samarqand”, its content was written by 239 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 3614 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4795^th place).

Samarkand is on the 742^nd place in local ranking of cities in German Wikipedia and on the 228^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 756 times in German Wikipedia and cited 21826 times in all languages (7581^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #1591 in September 2002
• Global: #595 in May 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #3604 in September 2022
• Global: #1661 in September 2022

There are 54 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	Russian (ru) Самарканд		93.1201
2	English (en) Samarkand		82.675
3	Portuguese (pt) Samarcanda		82.5319
4	Slovenian (sl) Samarkand		82.1609
5	Turkish (tr) Semerkant		72.704
6	Spanish (es) Samarcanda		69.0733
7	Uzbek (uz) Samarqand		64.9876
8	Esperanto (eo) Samarkando		64.3137
9	Ukrainian (uk) Самарканд		63.5494
10	French (fr) Samarcande		61.0316

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Samarkand		7 441 544
2	Russian (ru) Самарканд		4 451 008
3	Italian (it) Samarcanda		1 584 136
4	Arabic (ar) سمرقند		1 373 082
5	French (fr) Samarcande		1 303 625
6	Turkish (tr) Semerkant		1 192 020
7	German (de) Samarqand		1 189 088
8	Spanish (es) Samarcanda		1 166 192
9	Japanese (ja) サマルカンド		1 090 737
10	Persian (fa) سمرقند		686 128

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) Samarkand		43 456
2	Russian (ru) Самарканд		22 896
3	Japanese (ja) サマルカンド		10 870
4	Italian (it) Samarcanda		5 893
5	German (de) Samarqand		5 729
6	French (fr) Samarcande		5 436
7	Spanish (es) Samarcanda		4 887
8	Chinese (zh) 撒馬爾罕		4 855
9	Turkish (tr) Semerkant		4 491
10	Arabic (ar) سمرقند		4 161

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Samarkand		778
2	Russian (ru) Самарканд		397
3	German (de) Samarqand		239
4	French (fr) Samarcande		210
5	Italian (it) Samarcanda		163
6	Spanish (es) Samarcanda		110
7	Japanese (ja) サマルカンド		99
8	Persian (fa) سمرقند		96
9	Dutch (nl) Samarkand (plaats)		93
10	Turkish (tr) Semerkant		86

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) Samarkand		5
2	Russian (ru) Самарканд		4
3	French (fr) Samarcande		2
4	Uzbek (uz) Samarqand		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Səmərqənd		1
6	German (de) Samarqand		1
7	Spanish (es) Samarcanda		1
8	Persian (fa) سمرقند		1
9	Hebrew (he) סמרקנד		1
10	Japanese (ja) サマルカンド		1

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

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