Damascus

Quality:

Damascus - capital and largest city of Syria. This city is the 125^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 155^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Damascus” in English Wikipedia has 87 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 194 references and 42 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.58 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9795^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 5551^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 155^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5934^th most popular in all topics.

The 1887^th most popular in AI.

The 125^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8353^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Damascus” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 22 authors in all languages (8353^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Damascus”, its content was written by 1091 registered users of English Wikipedia (5551^st place) and edited by 5182 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1887^th place).

Damascus is on the 155^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 125^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 8606 times in English Wikipedia (2399^th place) and cited 66243 times in all languages (2565^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #397 in December 2024
• Global: #129 in December 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #409 in December 2024
• Global: #187 in December 2024

There are 55 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Damaskus		100
2	Arabic (ar) دمشق		100
3	Esperanto (eo) Damasko		93.2987
4	English (en) Damascus		87.0022
5	German (de) Damaskus		81.6719
6	Basque (eu) Damasko		76.5949
7	Persian (fa) دمشق		75.3594
8	Catalan (ca) Damasc		74.6377
9	Spanish (es) Damasco		73.072
10	Latin (la) Damascus		72.1958

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Damascus		14 667 971
2	Arabic (ar) دمشق		3 189 624
3	Spanish (es) Damasco		2 846 346
4	German (de) Damaskus		2 748 350
5	Russian (ru) Дамаск		2 570 219
6	French (fr) Damas		1 646 525
7	Japanese (ja) ダマスカス		1 174 505
8	Italian (it) Damasco		1 167 828
9	Portuguese (pt) Damasco		1 082 351
10	Turkish (tr) Şam		976 579

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) Damascus		44 452
2	Russian (ru) Дамаск		6 536
3	Spanish (es) Damasco		5 655
4	German (de) Damaskus		5 580
5	Japanese (ja) ダマスカス		3 445
6	Italian (it) Damasco		3 254
7	French (fr) Damas		3 098
8	Persian (fa) دمشق		2 549
9	Turkish (tr) Şam		2 404
10	Chinese (zh) 大马士革		2 203

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Damascus		1 091
2	German (de) Damaskus		443
3	French (fr) Damas		294
4	Arabic (ar) دمشق		293
5	Italian (it) Damasco		218
6	Hebrew (he) דמשק		193
7	Russian (ru) Дамаск		187
8	Spanish (es) Damasco		176
9	Dutch (nl) Damascus		161
10	Turkish (tr) Şam		116

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) Damascus		5
2	Arabic (ar) دمشق		2
3	Romanian (ro) Damasc		2
4	Russian (ru) Дамаск		2
5	Catalan (ca) Damasc		1
6	German (de) Damaskus		1
7	Esperanto (eo) Damasko		1
8	Basque (eu) Damasko		1
9	French (fr) Damas		1
10	Galician (gl) Damasco		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information