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Varanasi - city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of India. This city is the 301st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 181st 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:
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Achievements in the last month:
Global Wikipedia:
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9796th 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 (9796th place).
Since the creation of article “Varanasi”, its content was written by 1100 registered users of English Wikipedia (5089th place) and edited by 2758 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8391st place).
Varanasi is on the 181st place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia
and on the 301st place in global ranking of cities in all the time.
The article is cited 3756 times in English Wikipedia (6981st 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.