Erbil

Quality:

Erbil - capital of Kurdistan Region in Iraq. This city is the 632^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 694^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Erbil” in English Wikipedia has 89.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 93 references and 27 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 694^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9659^th most popular in AI.

The 632^nd most popular in cities.

In June 2026 the article “Erbil” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Erbil”, its content was written by 706 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2612 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9659^th place).

Erbil is on the 694^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 632^nd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 1564 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8352 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2114 in August 2014
• Global: #1122 in February 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3878 in August 2014
• Global: #4323 in March 2026

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	English (en) Erbil		89.4163
2	Korean (ko) 아르빌		83.9765
3	Uzbek (uz) Arbil		80.1273
4	German (de) Erbil		74.6228
5	Armenian (hy) Էրբիլ (Իրաք)		63.0346
6	Spanish (es) Erbil (Irak)		61.4003
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Arbil		58.1189
8	Arabic (ar) أربيل		53.7193
9	Persian (fa) اربیل		51.62
10	Thai (th) อัรบีล		50.9692

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Erbil		4 736 755
2	Arabic (ar) أربيل		1 227 147
3	German (de) Erbil		1 144 062
4	Persian (fa) اربیل		848 240
5	Turkish (tr) Erbil		707 652
6	Russian (ru) Эрбиль		477 946
7	French (fr) Erbil		385 941
8	Spanish (es) Erbil (Irak)		269 975
9	Italian (it) Erbil		255 269
10	Swedish (sv) Erbil		169 036

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) Erbil		18 556
2	Persian (fa) اربیل		4 612
3	German (de) Erbil		4 134
4	Turkish (tr) Erbil		2 604
5	Russian (ru) Эрбиль		2 459
6	French (fr) Erbil		1 214
7	Italian (it) Erbil		838
8	Spanish (es) Erbil (Irak)		785
9	Swedish (sv) Erbil		550
10	Norwegian (no) Arbil		548

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Erbil		706
2	German (de) Erbil		247
3	Arabic (ar) أربيل		161
4	Persian (fa) اربیل		135
5	French (fr) Erbil		123
6	Turkish (tr) Erbil		117
7	Dutch (nl) Erbil (stad)		96
8	Russian (ru) Эрбиль		94
9	Italian (it) Erbil		76
10	Hebrew (he) ארביל		72

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	Danish (da) Arbil		2
2	Greek (el) Ερμπίλ		2
3	Turkish (tr) Erbil		2
4	English (en) Erbil		1
5	Basque (eu) Arbil		1
6	Persian (fa) اربیل		1
7	Italian (it) Erbil		1
8	Swedish (sv) Erbil		1
9	Tamil (ta) அர்பில்		1
10	Thai (th) อัรบีล		1

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

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