Middle East

Quality:

Middle East - geopolitical region encompassing Egypt and most of Western Asia, including Iran. Article “Middle East” in English Wikipedia has 83.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 104 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.41 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2437^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2956^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1936^th most popular in all topics.

The 1912^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5967^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4190^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7201^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Middle East” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 24 authors in all languages (7201^st place).

Since the creation of article “Middle East”, its content was written by 1391 registered users of English Wikipedia (2956^th place) and edited by 5158 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1912^th place).

The article is cited 15230 times in English Wikipedia (1209^th place) and cited 103086 times in all languages (1358^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #471 in April 2003
• Global: #186 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #748 in March 2026
• Global: #384 in March 2026

There are 49 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	Esperanto (eo) Mezoriento		84.1925
2	English (en) Middle East		83.871
3	Greek (el) Μέση Ανατολή		79.8195
4	Turkish (tr) Orta Doğu		76.3864
5	Hebrew (he) המזרח התיכון		67.5668
6	Catalan (ca) Orient Mitjà		65.8127
7	French (fr) Moyen-Orient		63.5033
8	Dutch (nl) Midden-Oosten		63.2078
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Srednji istok		57.5714
10	Armenian (hy) Միջին Արևելք		56.8888

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Middle East		30 613 008
2	Spanish (es) Oriente Medio		5 730 745
3	French (fr) Moyen-Orient		4 152 410
4	Portuguese (pt) Médio Oriente		3 943 755
5	Persian (fa) خاورمیانه		2 875 352
6	Arabic (ar) الشرق الأوسط		2 838 891
7	Japanese (ja) 中東		2 270 163
8	Italian (it) Medio Oriente		2 178 021
9	Chinese (zh) 中东		1 931 868
10	Dutch (nl) Midden-Oosten		1 449 035

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) Middle East		84 458
2	Persian (fa) خاورمیانه		14 824
3	French (fr) Moyen-Orient		11 787
4	Spanish (es) Oriente Medio		8 358
5	Japanese (ja) 中東		7 304
6	Portuguese (pt) Médio Oriente		5 675
7	Italian (it) Medio Oriente		5 253
8	Chinese (zh) 中东		4 946
9	Turkish (tr) Orta Doğu		3 554
10	Dutch (nl) Midden-Oosten		2 960

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Middle East		1 391
2	French (fr) Moyen-Orient		321
3	Persian (fa) خاورمیانه		320
4	Arabic (ar) الشرق الأوسط		307
5	Hebrew (he) המזרח התיכון		250
6	Dutch (nl) Midden-Oosten		241
7	Italian (it) Medio Oriente		204
8	Spanish (es) Oriente Medio		201
9	Portuguese (pt) Médio Oriente		181
10	Turkish (tr) Orta Doğu		134

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	Arabic (ar) الشرق الأوسط		5
2	Persian (fa) خاورمیانه		4
3	English (en) Middle East		3
4	Dutch (nl) Midden-Oosten		2
5	Thai (th) ตะวันออกกลาง		2
6	Vietnamese (vi) Trung Đông		2
7	Catalan (ca) Orient Mitjà		1
8	Greek (el) Μέση Ανατολή		1
9	French (fr) Moyen-Orient		1
10	Hebrew (he) המזרח התיכון		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