Varanasi

Quality:

Varanasi - city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of India. This city is the 301^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 181^st most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Varanasi” in English Wikipedia has 94.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 411 references and 59 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 5089^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 181^st most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8391^st most popular in AI.

The 301^st most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9796^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Varanasi” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages (9796^th place).

Since the creation of article “Varanasi”, its content was written by 1100 registered users of English Wikipedia (5089^th place) and edited by 2758 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8391^st place).

Varanasi is on the 181^st place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 301^st place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 3756 times in English Wikipedia (6981^st place) and cited 16674 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1289 in May 2014
• Global: #1376 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4639 in December 2023
• Global: #7399 in December 2023

There are 52 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	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		100
2	Urdu (ur) وارانسی		95.2357
3	English (en) Varanasi		94.473
4	Slovenian (sl) Varanasi		91.8776
5	Tamil (ta) வாரணாசி		90.4803
6	Hebrew (he) ואראנסי		70.0244
7	Russian (ru) Варанаси		47.6407
8	German (de) Varanasi		47.327
9	French (fr) Bénarès		45.355
10	Latin (la) Varanasi		45.1572

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Varanasi		12 676 387
2	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		1 424 425
3	Russian (ru) Варанаси		783 524
4	German (de) Varanasi		745 047
5	Spanish (es) Benarés		683 265
6	French (fr) Bénarès		554 323
7	Japanese (ja) ヴァーラーナシー		527 405
8	Italian (it) Varanasi		486 482
9	Polish (pl) Waranasi		313 127
10	Swedish (sv) Varanasi		206 500

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) Varanasi		50 986
2	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		6 270
3	Russian (ru) Варанаси		3 056
4	Japanese (ja) ヴァーラーナシー		2 113
5	German (de) Varanasi		2 084
6	French (fr) Bénarès		1 827
7	Italian (it) Varanasi		1 754
8	Spanish (es) Benarés		1 699
9	Chinese (zh) 瓦拉納西		1 138
10	Portuguese (pt) Varanasi		775

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Varanasi		1 100
2	German (de) Varanasi		163
3	French (fr) Bénarès		149
4	Russian (ru) Варанаси		116
5	Italian (it) Varanasi		111
6	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		79
7	Dutch (nl) Benares (stad)		79
8	Japanese (ja) ヴァーラーナシー		72
9	Hebrew (he) ואראנסי		67
10	Tamil (ta) வாரணாசி		61

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) Varanasi		7
2	Danish (da) Varanasi		2
3	Swedish (sv) Varanasi		2
4	Urdu (ur) وارانسی		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Bənarəs		1
6	Basque (eu) Varanasi		1
7	Finnish (fi) Varanasi		1
8	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		1
9	Dutch (nl) Benares (stad)		1
10	Russian (ru) Варанаси		1

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

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