Samarcande

Quality:

Samarkand - city in southeastern Uzbekistan. This city is the 231^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 261^st most popular city in French Wikipedia. Article “Samarcande” in French Wikipedia has 57.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 36 references and 37 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.05 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

The 261^st most popular in cities in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4724^th most popular in AI.

The 231^st most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 8448^th most editable in French Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8058^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5174^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Samarcande” was edited by 3 authors in French Wikipedia (8448^th place) and written by 29 authors in all languages (5174^th place).

Since the creation of article “Samarcande”, its content was written by 218 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 3696 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4724^th place).

Samarkand is on the 261^st place in local ranking of cities in French Wikipedia and on the 231^st place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 900 times in French Wikipedia and cited 23280 times in all languages (7330^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #3043 in September 2025
• Global: #597 in May 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #3830 in March 2022
• Global: #1665 in September 2022

There are 54 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	Russian (ru) Самарканд		93.8692
2	English (en) Samarkand		83.2279
3	Slovenian (sl) Samarkand		81.8916
4	Portuguese (pt) Samarcanda		77.7288
5	Turkish (tr) Semerkant		72.6951
6	Spanish (es) Samarcanda		70.3517
7	Uzbek (uz) Samarqand		65.1044
8	Esperanto (eo) Samarkando		63.6674
9	Persian (fa) سمرقند		63.1312
10	Ukrainian (uk) Самарканд		62.313

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Samarkand		7 945 780
2	Russian (ru) Самарканд		4 877 178
3	Italian (it) Samarcanda		1 657 825
4	Arabic (ar) سمرقند		1 421 757
5	French (fr) Samarcande		1 381 274
6	German (de) Samarqand		1 271 963
7	Turkish (tr) Semerkant		1 253 092
8	Spanish (es) Samarcanda		1 231 311
9	Japanese (ja) サマルカンド		1 180 061
10	Uzbek (uz) Samarqand		733 189

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) Samarkand		39 123
2	Russian (ru) Самарканд		16 329
3	German (de) Samarqand		6 450
4	Spanish (es) Samarcanda		6 406
5	French (fr) Samarcande		5 335
6	Japanese (ja) サマルカンド		5 304
7	Italian (it) Samarcanda		5 043
8	Turkish (tr) Semerkant		4 003
9	Chinese (zh) 撒馬爾罕		3 779
10	Polish (pl) Samarkanda		3 322

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Samarkand		816
2	Russian (ru) Самарканд		412
3	German (de) Samarqand		246
4	French (fr) Samarcande		218
5	Italian (it) Samarcanda		165
6	Spanish (es) Samarcanda		111
7	Japanese (ja) サマルカンド		104
8	Persian (fa) سمرقند		103
9	Dutch (nl) Samarkand (plaats)		93
10	Turkish (tr) Semerkant		90

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) Samarkand		7
2	Russian (ru) Самарканд		5
3	French (fr) Samarcande		3
4	German (de) Samarqand		2
5	Persian (fa) سمرقند		2
6	Serbian (sr) Самарканд		2
7	Greek (el) Σαμαρκάνδη		1
8	Spanish (es) Samarcanda		1
9	Basque (eu) Samarkanda		1
10	Italian (it) Samarcanda		1

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

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