2012 Benghazi attack

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2012 Benghazi attack - attack against two United States government facilities in Benghazi, Libya.. This event is the 208^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 74^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “2012 Benghazi attack” in English Wikipedia has 93.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 358 references and 20 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 3543^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

The 74^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9678^th most popular in all topics.

The 208^th most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article “2012 Benghazi attack” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “2012 Benghazi attack”, its content was written by 548 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 792 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

2012 Benghazi attack is on the 74^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 208^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 907 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1711 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #88 in September 2012
• Global: #1160 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #44 in June 2016
• Global: #130 in June 2016

There are 21 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	Chinese (zh) 班加西事件		100
2	English (en) 2012 Benghazi attack		93.8403
3	Portuguese (pt) Ataque terrorista em Bengasi em 2012		61.2643
4	Simple English (simple) 2012 Benghazi attack		57.6339
5	Hebrew (he) מתקפת הטרור בקונסוליה האמריקנית בבנגאזי		51.0551
6	Catalan (ca) Atac contra el consolat dels Estats Units a Bengasi		48.7599
7	Spanish (es) Asalto al consulado estadounidense en Bengasi		42.9062
8	Vietnamese (vi) Vụ tấn công Benghazi năm 2012		33.4653
9	German (de) Bengasi-Anschlag		31.8396
10	French (fr) Attaque de Benghazi de 2012		30.3847

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2012 Benghazi attack		24 256 266
2	Spanish (es) Asalto al consulado estadounidense en Bengasi		883 899
3	German (de) Bengasi-Anschlag		637 777
4	Chinese (zh) 班加西事件		612 114
5	French (fr) Attaque de Benghazi de 2012		451 239
6	Portuguese (pt) Ataque terrorista em Bengasi em 2012		229 954
7	Dutch (nl) Aanval op het Amerikaanse consulaat in Benghazi in september 2012		151 480
8	Polish (pl) Atak na konsulat USA w Bengazi		80 439
9	Hebrew (he) מתקפת הטרור בקונסוליה האמריקנית בבנגאזי		63 188
10	Persian (fa) حمله ۲۰۱۲ بنغازی		52 661

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) 2012 Benghazi attack		48 523
2	Spanish (es) Asalto al consulado estadounidense en Bengasi		2 112
3	Chinese (zh) 班加西事件		1 888
4	German (de) Bengasi-Anschlag		1 052
5	French (fr) Attaque de Benghazi de 2012		949
6	Russian (ru) Нападение на представительство США в Бенгази		614
7	Dutch (nl) Aanval op het Amerikaanse consulaat in Benghazi in september 2012		415
8	Portuguese (pt) Ataque terrorista em Bengasi em 2012		383
9	Polish (pl) Atak na konsulat USA w Bengazi		322
10	Simple English (simple) 2012 Benghazi attack		276

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2012 Benghazi attack		548
2	Spanish (es) Asalto al consulado estadounidense en Bengasi		41
3	German (de) Bengasi-Anschlag		34
4	Hebrew (he) מתקפת הטרור בקונסוליה האמריקנית בבנגאזי		28
5	French (fr) Attaque de Benghazi de 2012		26
6	Chinese (zh) 班加西事件		25
7	Arabic (ar) هجوم بنغازي 2012		13
8	Catalan (ca) Atac contra el consolat dels Estats Units a Bengasi		10
9	Portuguese (pt) Ataque terrorista em Bengasi em 2012		10
10	Dutch (nl) Aanval op het Amerikaanse consulaat in Benghazi in september 2012		9

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) 2012 Benghazi attack		4
2	Hebrew (he) מתקפת הטרור בקונסוליה האמריקנית בבנגאזי		1
3	Korean (ko) 2012년 벵가지 테러		1
4	Polish (pl) Atak na konsulat USA w Bengazi		1
5	Chinese (zh) 班加西事件		1
6	Arabic (ar) هجوم بنغازي 2012		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) ABŞ-nin Benqazidəki nümayəndəliyinə hücum		0
8	Catalan (ca) Atac contra el consolat dels Estats Units a Bengasi		0
9	German (de) Bengasi-Anschlag		0
10	Spanish (es) Asalto al consulado estadounidense en Bengasi		0

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

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