Damascus

Quality:

Damascus - capital and largest city of Syria. This city is the 124^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 153^rd most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Damascus” in English Wikipedia has 91.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 189 references and 40 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 9775^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 5485^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 153^rd most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5923^rd most popular in all topics.

The 1840^th most popular in AI.

The 124^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6169^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 4564^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3709^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2944^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Damascus” was edited by 13 authors in English Wikipedia (4564^th place) and written by 37 authors in all languages (2944^th place).

Since the creation of article “Damascus”, its content was written by 1068 registered users of English Wikipedia (5485^th place) and edited by 5170 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1840^th place).

Damascus is on the 153^rd place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 124^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 8017 times in English Wikipedia (2532^nd place) and cited 62479 times in all languages (2607^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #347 in December 2024
• Global: #122 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, 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) دمشق		100
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Damaskus		100
3	Esperanto (eo) Damasko		94.3686
4	English (en) Damascus		91.7624
5	German (de) Damaskus		87.601
6	Basque (eu) Damasko		77.0626
7	Persian (fa) دمشق		75.5206
8	Catalan (ca) Damasc		74.2263
9	Spanish (es) Damasco		74.211
10	Chinese (zh) 大马士革		71.3537

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Damascus		13 958 033
2	Arabic (ar) دمشق		3 077 675
3	Spanish (es) Damasco		2 747 198
4	German (de) Damaskus		2 653 144
5	Russian (ru) Дамаск		2 367 315
6	French (fr) Damas		1 587 613
7	Japanese (ja) ダマスカス		1 116 349
8	Italian (it) Damasco		1 104 437
9	Portuguese (pt) Damasco		1 047 328
10	Turkish (tr) Şam		932 947

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		91 476
2	Russian (ru) Дамаск		17 401
3	Spanish (es) Damasco		14 147
4	Arabic (ar) دمشق		10 295
5	German (de) Damaskus		9 572
6	Italian (it) Damasco		7 876
7	Chinese (zh) 大马士革		7 782
8	French (fr) Damas		6 017
9	Japanese (ja) ダマスカス		5 542
10	Portuguese (pt) Damasco		4 326

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Damascus		1 068
2	German (de) Damaskus		434
3	French (fr) Damas		292
4	Arabic (ar) دمشق		281
5	Italian (it) Damasco		215
6	Hebrew (he) דמשק		189
7	Russian (ru) Дамаск		183
8	Spanish (es) Damasco		175
9	Dutch (nl) Damascus		162
10	Turkish (tr) Şam		109

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		13
2	Arabic (ar) دمشق		6
3	Chinese (zh) 大马士革		5
4	Azerbaijani (az) Dəməşq		2
5	German (de) Damaskus		2
6	French (fr) Damas		2
7	Dutch (nl) Damascus		2
8	Spanish (es) Damasco		1
9	Persian (fa) دمشق		1
10	Hebrew (he) דמשק		1

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

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