Bethlehem

Quality:

Bethlehem - city in the State of Palestine. This city is the 172^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 215^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Bethlehem” in English Wikipedia has 97.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 243 references and 35 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 215^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7813^th most popular in all topics.

The 4436^th most popular in AI.

The 172^nd most popular in cities.

In June 2026 the article “Bethlehem” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Bethlehem”, its content was written by 768 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3795 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4436^th place).

Bethlehem is on the 215^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 172^nd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 2946 times in English Wikipedia and cited 18299 times in all languages (9501^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #768 in August 2002
• Global: #240 in December 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #639 in December 2023
• Global: #368 in December 2023

There are 53 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	Croatian (hr) Betlehem		100
2	Hindi (hi) बेथलहम		100
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Betlehem		100
4	Arabic (ar) بيت لحم		98.5135
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Betlehem		98.1234
6	Russian (ru) Вифлеем		97.3995
7	English (en) Bethlehem		97.2384
8	Spanish (es) Belén		96.3483
9	Japanese (ja) ベツレヘム		91.1315
10	Chinese (zh) 伯利恆		88.8313

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bethlehem		11 448 170
2	Spanish (es) Belén		3 675 162
3	Portuguese (pt) Belém		2 684 324
4	German (de) Bethlehem		2 015 299
5	Russian (ru) Вифлеем		1 922 499
6	Italian (it) Betlemme		1 471 617
7	French (fr) Bethléem		1 228 575
8	Arabic (ar) بيت لحم		1 173 311
9	Polish (pl) Betlejem		1 119 103
10	Japanese (ja) ベツレヘム		700 489

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) Bethlehem		30 862
2	Spanish (es) Belén		6 641
3	Russian (ru) Вифлеем		4 465
4	French (fr) Bethléem		3 612
5	German (de) Bethlehem		3 274
6	Italian (it) Betlemme		2 747
7	Portuguese (pt) Belém		2 127
8	Japanese (ja) ベツレヘム		1 811
9	Persian (fa) بیت‌لحم		1 542
10	Polish (pl) Betlejem		1 458

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bethlehem		768
2	German (de) Bethlehem		302
3	French (fr) Bethléem		241
4	Italian (it) Betlemme		212
5	Spanish (es) Belén		205
6	Hebrew (he) בית לחם		184
7	Dutch (nl) Bethlehem		173
8	Russian (ru) Вифлеем		164
9	Arabic (ar) بيت لحم		111
10	Polish (pl) Betlejem		90

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	Dutch (nl) Bethlehem		4
2	Azerbaijani (az) Beytləhm		2
3	Japanese (ja) ベツレヘム		2
4	Russian (ru) Вифлеем		2
5	English (en) Bethlehem		1
6	Spanish (es) Belén		1
7	Basque (eu) Betleem		1
8	Finnish (fi) Betlehem		1
9	Hebrew (he) בית לחם		1
10	Hindi (hi) बेथलहम		1

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

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