Babylon

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Babylon - capital city of Babylonia and an archaeological site in modern-day Iraq. This city is the 28^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 48^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Babylon” in English Wikipedia has 94.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 171 references and 25 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2478^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 5243^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 48^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1265^th most popular in all topics.

The 2496^th most popular in AI.

The 28^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3567^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1723^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Babylon” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Babylon”, its content was written by 1087 registered users of English Wikipedia (5243^rd place) and edited by 4710 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2496^th place).

Babylon is on the 48^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 28^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 3144 times in English Wikipedia (9186^th place) and cited 27340 times in all languages (6032^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #496 in September 2002
• Global: #324 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1002 in February 2024
• Global: #618 in February 2024

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	Arabic (ar) بابل		98.9394
2	Catalan (ca) Babiló		97.8263
3	Portuguese (pt) Babilónia		95.5019
4	English (en) Babylon		94.6739
5	Spanish (es) Babilonia (ciudad)		94.119
6	French (fr) Babylone		91.9164
7	Chinese (zh) 巴比伦		89.9839
8	Ukrainian (uk) Вавилон		89.1212
9	Tamil (ta) பாபிலோன்		86.2305
10	Japanese (ja) バビロン		81.047

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Babylon		28 949 052
2	Spanish (es) Babilonia (ciudad)		8 469 412
3	Russian (ru) Вавилон		7 857 898
4	French (fr) Babylone		6 270 754
5	German (de) Babylon		6 056 522
6	Portuguese (pt) Babilónia		4 049 404
7	Japanese (ja) バビロン		2 343 607
8	Italian (it) Babilonia (città antica)		2 147 199
9	Polish (pl) Babilon		2 093 402
10	Chinese (zh) 巴比伦		1 936 468

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) Babylon		127 595
2	Russian (ru) Вавилон		37 547
3	Spanish (es) Babilonia (ciudad)		23 197
4	French (fr) Babylone		23 164
5	German (de) Babylon		17 604
6	Portuguese (pt) Babilónia		11 531
7	Chinese (zh) 巴比伦		11 210
8	Italian (it) Babilonia (città antica)		9 182
9	Japanese (ja) バビロン		8 356
10	Polish (pl) Babilon		6 095

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Babylon		1 087
2	German (de) Babylon		431
3	French (fr) Babylone		330
4	Russian (ru) Вавилон		253
5	Italian (it) Babilonia (città antica)		219
6	Dutch (nl) Babylon (stad)		193
7	Spanish (es) Babilonia (ciudad)		186
8	Hebrew (he) בבל		145
9	Polish (pl) Babilon		114
10	Arabic (ar) بابل		110

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) Babylon		7
2	Hebrew (he) בבל		4
3	Korean (ko) 바빌론		3
4	Arabic (ar) بابل		1
5	Catalan (ca) Babiló		1
6	Danish (da) Babylon		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Babilon		1
8	Italian (it) Babilonia (città antica)		1
9	Russian (ru) Вавилон		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Babil		0

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

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