-stan

-stan - suffix. Article “-stan” in English Wikipedia has 42.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 28 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.51 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “-stan” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “-stan”, its content was written by 654 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1350 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 96 times in English Wikipedia and cited 352 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4101 in July 2021
• Global: #8608 in August 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #40204 in August 2021
• Global: #26529 in August 2021

There are 23 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	Chinese (zh) 斯坦		45.1298
2	Urdu (ur) -ستان		43.2135
3	English (en) -stan		42.5615
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) -stan		32.2099
5	Indonesian (id) -stan		29.795
6	Russian (ru) -стан		29.0088
7	Spanish (es) -stán		26.8471
8	Ukrainian (uk) -стан		22.9086
9	Kazakh (kk) -стан		22.6189
10	Korean (ko) 스탄		20.7662

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) -stan		1 974 941
2	Russian (ru) -стан		284 571
3	Japanese (ja) スターン (地名)		272 373
4	Spanish (es) -stán		222 221
5	German (de) -stan		208 338
6	Korean (ko) 스탄		187 898
7	French (fr) -stan		172 905
8	Chinese (zh) 斯坦		167 503
9	Arabic (ar) ـستان		167 234
10	Persian (fa) ـستان		125 240

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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 "-stan" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) -stan		10 158
2	Spanish (es) -stán		2 292
3	Russian (ru) -стан		1 132
4	Japanese (ja) スターン (地名)		1 083
5	Korean (ko) 스탄		1 007
6	French (fr) -stan		1 006
7	German (de) -stan		871
8	Chinese (zh) 斯坦		848
9	Persian (fa) ـستان		357
10	Dutch (nl) -stan		295

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) -stan		654
2	German (de) -stan		111
3	Russian (ru) -стан		107
4	Chinese (zh) 斯坦		77
5	French (fr) -stan		72
6	Dutch (nl) -stan		57
7	Japanese (ja) スターン (地名)		52
8	Spanish (es) -stán		44
9	Persian (fa) ـستان		38
10	Arabic (ar) ـستان		25

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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 "-stan" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) -stan		3
2	Japanese (ja) スターン (地名)		1
3	Arabic (ar) ـستان		0
4	German (de) -stan		0
5	Spanish (es) -stán		0
6	Basque (eu) -stan		0
7	Persian (fa) ـستان		0
8	French (fr) -stan		0
9	Hebrew (he) סטן (סיומת)		0
10	Armenian (hy) -ստան		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 "-stan" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) -stan		96
2	Spanish (es) -stán		30
3	Persian (fa) ـستان		26
4	Russian (ru) -стан		25
5	Chinese (zh) 斯坦		23
6	Japanese (ja) スターン (地名)		21
7	German (de) -stan		20
8	French (fr) -stan		18
9	Indonesian (id) -stan		15
10	Arabic (ar) ـستان		12

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ـستان
de	German -stan
en	English -stan
es	Spanish -stán
eu	Basque -stan
fa	Persian ـستان
fr	French -stan
he	Hebrew סטן (סיומת)
hy	Armenian -ստան
id	Indonesian -stan
ja	Japanese スターン (地名)
kk	Kazakh -стан
ko	Korean 스탄
lt	Lithuanian -stan
nl	Dutch -stan
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) -stan
ru	Russian -стан
sv	Swedish -stan
th	Thai -สถาน
tr	Turkish -stan
uk	Ukrainian -стан
ur	Urdu -ستان
zh	Chinese 斯坦

Best Rank

English: #40204 08.2021

Global: #26529 08.2021

Best Rank

English: #4101 07.2021

Global: #8608 08.2021

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