Bashar al-Assad

Quality:

Bashar al-Assad - President of Syria from 2000 to 2024. This person is the 487^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 923^rd most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article "Bashar al-Assad" in English Wikipedia has 94 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 551 references and 32 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1973^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2056^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 923^rd most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1444^th most popular in all topics.

The 1214^th most popular in AI.

The 487^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 700^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 3976^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 536^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 460^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article "Bashar al-Assad" was edited by 14 authors in English Wikipedia (3976^th place) and written by 90 authors in all languages (460^th place).

Since the creation of article "Bashar al-Assad", its content was written by 1538 registered users of English Wikipedia (2056^th place) and edited by 5968 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1214^th place).

Bashar al-Assad is on the 923^rd place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 487^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 2917 times in English Wikipedia and cited 15904 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7 in December 2024
• Global: #2 in December 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2 in December 2024
• Global: #1 in December 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	Bulgarian (bg) Башар ал-Асад		100
2	Arabic (ar) بشار الأسد		97.931
3	Spanish (es) Bashar al-Ásad		97.1826
4	Turkish (tr) Beşşar Esad		96.8666
5	English (en) Bashar al-Assad		93.968
6	Slovenian (sl) Bašar al Asad		93.3333
7	Portuguese (pt) Bashar al-Assad		88.6361
8	Russian (ru) Асад, Башар		87.7692
9	French (fr) Bachar el-Assad		84.7645
10	Italian (it) Bashar al-Assad		84.1365

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bashar al-Assad		32 092 230
2	Arabic (ar) بشار الأسد		6 716 375
3	Russian (ru) Асад, Башар		5 494 731
4	German (de) Baschar al-Assad		5 335 903
5	French (fr) Bachar el-Assad		5 030 814
6	Spanish (es) Bashar al-Ásad		3 773 996
7	Turkish (tr) Beşşar Esad		2 673 148
8	Italian (it) Bashar al-Assad		2 405 465
9	Persian (fa) بشار اسد		2 076 329
10	Japanese (ja) バッシャール・アル＝アサド		1 959 948

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) Bashar al-Assad		310 847
2	German (de) Baschar al-Assad		38 598
3	Russian (ru) Асад, Башар		36 583
4	French (fr) Bachar el-Assad		34 494
5	Arabic (ar) بشار الأسد		30 442
6	Spanish (es) Bashar al-Ásad		28 820
7	Persian (fa) بشار اسد		18 178
8	Italian (it) Bashar al-Assad		17 937
9	Turkish (tr) Beşşar Esad		15 745
10	Chinese (zh) 巴沙尔·阿萨德		13 274

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bashar al-Assad		1 538
2	German (de) Baschar al-Assad		429
3	French (fr) Bachar el-Assad		412
4	Russian (ru) Асад, Башар		308
5	Arabic (ar) بشار الأسد		285
6	Italian (it) Bashar al-Assad		244
7	Spanish (es) Bashar al-Ásad		238
8	Turkish (tr) Beşşar Esad		219
9	Hebrew (he) בשאר אל-אסד		216
10	Persian (fa) بشار اسد		176

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) Bashar al-Assad		14
2	Italian (it) Bashar al-Assad		13
3	French (fr) Bachar el-Assad		9
4	German (de) Baschar al-Assad		6
5	Spanish (es) Bashar al-Ásad		6
6	Hebrew (he) בשאר אל-אסד		6
7	Turkish (tr) Beşşar Esad		5
8	Chinese (zh) 巴沙尔·阿萨德		5
9	Persian (fa) بشار اسد		4
10	Georgian (ka) ბაშარ ალ-ასადი		4

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

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