Fall of Kabul (2021)

Quality:

Fall of Kabul - Taliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan in 2021. This event is the 1568^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article "Fall of Kabul (2021)" in English Wikipedia has 95.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 272 references and 21 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 1568^th most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article "Fall of Kabul (2021)" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Fall of Kabul (2021)", its content was written by 463 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1065 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Fall of Kabul is on the 1568^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1092 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2994 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1 in August 2021
• Global: #4 in August 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #25 in August 2021
• Global: #72 in August 2021

There are 38 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	English (en) Fall of Kabul (2021)		95.9125
2	Hebrew (he) נפילת קאבול (2021)		95
3	Indonesian (id) Kejatuhan Kabul (2021)		94.1903
4	Czech (cs) Pád Kábulu (2021)		86.776
5	Basque (eu) Kabulen erortzea (2021)		85.0895
6	Chinese (zh) 喀布爾戰役 (2021年)		76.6639
7	Galician (gl) Caída de Cabul (2021)		75.0784
8	Greek (el) Πτώση της Καμπούλ (2021)		73.1759
9	Ukrainian (uk) Падіння Кабула (2021)		67.291
10	Russian (ru) Падение Кабула (2021)		61.1822

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fall of Kabul (2021)		3 445 326
2	Russian (ru) Падение Кабула (2021)		238 366
3	Persian (fa) سقوط کابل (۱۴۰۰)		237 245
4	Spanish (es) Caída de Kabul (2021)		167 872
5	Japanese (ja) カーブル陥落 (2021年)		111 911
6	Chinese (zh) 喀布爾戰役 (2021年)		111 776
7	French (fr) Chute de Kaboul		93 510
8	Italian (it) Caduta di Kabul (2021)		64 785
9	Portuguese (pt) Queda de Cabul (2021)		41 991
10	Turkish (tr) Kabil'in Düşüşü (2021)		36 099

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) Fall of Kabul (2021)		31 352
2	French (fr) Chute de Kaboul		2 760
3	Russian (ru) Падение Кабула (2021)		2 451
4	Spanish (es) Caída de Kabul (2021)		2 406
5	Persian (fa) سقوط کابل (۱۴۰۰)		2 088
6	Japanese (ja) カーブル陥落 (2021年)		1 828
7	Chinese (zh) 喀布爾戰役 (2021年)		1 122
8	Italian (it) Caduta di Kabul (2021)		891
9	Polish (pl) Upadek Kabulu (2021)		794
10	Portuguese (pt) Queda de Cabul (2021)		773

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fall of Kabul (2021)		463
2	Chinese (zh) 喀布爾戰役 (2021年)		58
3	Spanish (es) Caída de Kabul (2021)		57
4	Russian (ru) Падение Кабула (2021)		49
5	French (fr) Chute de Kaboul		45
6	Italian (it) Caduta di Kabul (2021)		41
7	Persian (fa) سقوط کابل (۱۴۰۰)		36
8	Japanese (ja) カーブル陥落 (2021年)		30
9	Portuguese (pt) Queda de Cabul (2021)		26
10	Vietnamese (vi) Kabul sụp đổ (2021)		24

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	Catalan (ca) Caiguda de Kabul (2021)		2
2	English (en) Fall of Kabul (2021)		1
3	Persian (fa) سقوط کابل (۱۴۰۰)		1
4	Korean (ko) 카불 함락 (2021년)		1
5	Vietnamese (vi) Kabul sụp đổ (2021)		1
6	Arabic (ar) تسليم كابل		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Kabilin süqutu (2021)		0
8	Belarusian (be) Падзенне Кабула (2021)		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Превземане на Кабул (2021)		0
10	Czech (cs) Pád Kábulu (2021)		0

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

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