Ur

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Ur - ancient Mesopotamian city-state. This city is the 378^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 420^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Ur” in English Wikipedia has 91 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 151 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.79 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 420^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 378^th most popular in cities.

In June 2025 the article “Ur” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ur”, its content was written by 572 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2250 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Ur is on the 420^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 378^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 836 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7650 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #550 in May 2002
• Global: #1026 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7504 in November 2022
• Global: #2877 in March 2021

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, 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	Catalan (ca) Ur		91.5177
2	English (en) Ur		90.9664
3	French (fr) Ur (Mésopotamie)		79.7855
4	Turkish (tr) Ur (antik kent)		66.576
5	Norwegian (no) Ur (Mesopotamia)		64.229
6	Polish (pl) Ur (miasto)		64.1483
7	Japanese (ja) ウル		61.2188
8	Portuguese (pt) Ur		50.2017
9	Tamil (ta) ஊர் (மெசொப்பொத்தேமியா)		41.2133
10	Croatian (hr) Ur		40.1706

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ur		6 806 098
2	Spanish (es) Ur		1 655 911
3	French (fr) Ur (Mésopotamie)		1 419 816
4	Portuguese (pt) Ur		871 405
5	German (de) Ur (Stadt)		860 631
6	Russian (ru) Ур		716 148
7	Italian (it) Ur		657 834
8	Arabic (ar) أور		605 266
9	Japanese (ja) ウル		512 997
10	Polish (pl) Ur (miasto)		454 053

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) Ur		35 669
2	Spanish (es) Ur		5 713
3	Russian (ru) Ур		4 314
4	French (fr) Ur (Mésopotamie)		4 074
5	Portuguese (pt) Ur		3 517
6	German (de) Ur (Stadt)		3 295
7	Italian (it) Ur		2 812
8	Japanese (ja) ウル		2 554
9	Arabic (ar) أور		2 214
10	Polish (pl) Ur (miasto)		1 656

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ur		572
2	French (fr) Ur (Mésopotamie)		154
3	German (de) Ur (Stadt)		136
4	Italian (it) Ur		124
5	Spanish (es) Ur		107
6	Hebrew (he) אור (עיר)		105
7	Dutch (nl) Ur (Sumer)		90
8	Russian (ru) Ур		77
9	Danish (da) Ur (oldtidsby)		56
10	Polish (pl) Ur (miasto)		56

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) Ur		2
2	Greek (el) Ουρ		1
3	Spanish (es) Ur		1
4	Basque (eu) Ur (hiria)		1
5	Persian (fa) اور		1
6	Serbian (sr) Ур		1
7	Tamil (ta) ஊர் (மெசொப்பொத்தேமியா)		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Ур		1
9	Chinese (zh) 乌尔		1
10	Arabic (ar) أور		0

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information