Ur

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Ur - ancient Mesopotamian city-state. This city is the 382^nd 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 91.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 169 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.8 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 382^nd most popular in cities.

In June 2026 the article “Ur” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ur”, its content was written by 594 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2292 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Ur is on the 420^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 382^nd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 663 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7741 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #549 in May 2002
• Global: #1027 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7510 in November 2022
• Global: #2868 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, 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	Catalan (ca) Ur		91.6291
2	English (en) Ur		91.1864
3	French (fr) Ur (Mésopotamie)		79.5814
4	Turkish (tr) Ur (antik kent)		66.7468
5	Polish (pl) Ur (miasto)		64.0345
6	Norwegian (no) Ur (Mesopotamia)		63.986
7	Japanese (ja) ウル		60.4716
8	Portuguese (pt) Ur		47.3294
9	Tamil (ta) ஊர் (மெசொப்பொத்தேமியா)		40.793
10	Croatian (hr) Ur		40.1313

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ur		7 249 522
2	Spanish (es) Ur		1 719 055
3	French (fr) Ur (Mésopotamie)		1 488 410
4	German (de) Ur (Stadt)		912 287
5	Portuguese (pt) Ur		902 396
6	Russian (ru) Ур		792 760
7	Italian (it) Ur		689 940
8	Arabic (ar) أور		627 759
9	Japanese (ja) ウル		541 023
10	Polish (pl) Ur (miasto)		477 144

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		31 765
2	Spanish (es) Ur		4 014
3	French (fr) Ur (Mésopotamie)		3 956
4	Russian (ru) Ур		3 702
5	German (de) Ur (Stadt)		3 390
6	Japanese (ja) ウル		2 337
7	Portuguese (pt) Ur		2 056
8	Italian (it) Ur		1 697
9	Polish (pl) Ur (miasto)		1 330
10	Persian (fa) اور		880

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ur		594
2	French (fr) Ur (Mésopotamie)		162
3	German (de) Ur (Stadt)		137
4	Italian (it) Ur		126
5	Spanish (es) Ur		110
6	Hebrew (he) אור (עיר)		106
7	Dutch (nl) Ur (Sumer)		91
8	Russian (ru) Ур		81
9	Polish (pl) Ur (miasto)		57
10	Danish (da) Ur (oldtidsby)		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	Serbian (sr) Ур		2
3	Catalan (ca) Ur		1
4	Basque (eu) Ur (hiria)		1
5	French (fr) Ur (Mésopotamie)		1
6	Italian (it) Ur		1
7	Japanese (ja) ウル		1
8	Arabic (ar) أور		0
9	Belarusian (be) Ур		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Ур		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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