Basra

Basra - capital of Basra Governorate, in southern Iraq. This city is the 806^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 847^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Basra” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 201 references and 28 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Basra” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Basra”, its content was written by 589 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2267 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Basra is on the 847^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 806^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 3285 times in English Wikipedia (9518^th place) and cited 19488 times in all languages (8861^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #24 in March 2003
• Global: #45 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #27330 in March 2026
• Global: #19179 in March 2026

There are 52 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	English (en) Basra		100
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Basra		100
3	Arabic (ar) البصرة		78.7528
4	Slovenian (sl) Basra		73.8292
5	Spanish (es) Basora		63.6068
6	Chinese (zh) 巴士拉		63.2383
7	Thai (th) บัสรา		47.9827
8	German (de) Basra		47.6066
9	Russian (ru) Басра		41.6163
10	Portuguese (pt) Baçorá		39.0957

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basra		3 853 917
2	Arabic (ar) البصرة		1 595 070
3	Persian (fa) بصره		470 437
4	German (de) Basra		454 192
5	Russian (ru) Басра		391 238
6	French (fr) Bassorah		354 568
7	Spanish (es) Basora		317 079
8	Japanese (ja) バスラ		232 420
9	Turkish (tr) Basra		228 641
10	Polish (pl) Basra		218 962

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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 "Basra" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basra		16 206
2	German (de) Basra		2 362
3	Persian (fa) بصره		2 215
4	French (fr) Bassorah		1 939
5	Russian (ru) Басра		1 623
6	Spanish (es) Basora		1 125
7	Italian (it) Bassora		789
8	Japanese (ja) バスラ		764
9	Chinese (zh) 巴士拉		693
10	Turkish (tr) Basra		630

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basra		589
2	Arabic (ar) البصرة		270
3	German (de) Basra		152
4	French (fr) Bassorah		126
5	Russian (ru) Басра		91
6	Italian (it) Bassora		79
7	Dutch (nl) Basra		75
8	Persian (fa) بصره		74
9	Spanish (es) Basora		57
10	Hebrew (he) בצרה (עיראק)		57

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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 "Basra" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basra		5
2	Arabic (ar) البصرة		3
3	Finnish (fi) Basra		1
4	French (fr) Bassorah		1
5	Portuguese (pt) Baçorá		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Bəsrə		0
7	Belarusian (be) Басра		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Басра		0
9	Catalan (ca) Bàssora		0
10	Czech (cs) Basra		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 "Basra" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Arabic (ar) البصرة		3 653
2	English (en) Basra		3 285
3	Urdu (ur) بصرہ		1 108
4	Persian (fa) بصره		924
5	French (fr) Bassorah		868
6	German (de) Basra		752
7	Russian (ru) Басра		721
8	Italian (it) Bassora		651
9	Spanish (es) Basora		552
10	Hebrew (he) בצרה (עיראק)		522

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic البصرة
az	Azerbaijani Bəsrə
be	Belarusian Басра
bg	Bulgarian Басра
ca	Catalan Bàssora
cs	Czech Basra
da	Danish Basra
de	German Basra
el	Greek Μπάσρα
en	English Basra
eo	Esperanto Basra
es	Spanish Basora
et	Estonian Basra
eu	Basque Basora
fa	Persian بصره
fi	Finnish Basra
fr	French Bassorah
he	Hebrew בצרה (עיראק)
hi	Hindi बसरा
hr	Croatian Basra
hu	Hungarian Baszra
hy	Armenian Բասրա
id	Indonesian Basra
it	Italian Bassora
ja	Japanese バスラ
ka	Georgian ბასრა
kk	Kazakh Басра
ko	Korean 바스라
la	Latin Basra
lt	Lithuanian Basra
ms	Malay Basrah
nl	Dutch Basra
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Basra
no	Norwegian Basra
pl	Polish Basra
pt	Portuguese Baçorá
ro	Romanian Basra
ru	Russian Басра
sh	Serbo-Croatian Basra
simple	Simple English Basra
sk	Slovak Basra (mesto v Iraku)
sl	Slovenian Basra
sr	Serbian Басра
sv	Swedish Basra
ta	Tamil பசுரா
th	Thai บัสรา
tr	Turkish Basra
uk	Ukrainian Басра
ur	Urdu بصرہ
uz	Uzbek Basra
vi	Vietnamese Basra
zh	Chinese 巴士拉

Best Rank

English: #27330 03.2026

Global: #19179 03.2026

Best Rank

English: #24 03.2003

Global: #45 03.2003

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