Qanat

Qanat - underground canal in hot and dry areas, to draw drinking water and process water from higher regions. Article “Qanat” in Galician Wikipedia has 70.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 64 references and 19 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Qanat”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Galician Wikipedia and edited by 1412 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Galician Wikipedia and cited 3572 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Galician): #225 in May 2026
• Global: #8522 in April 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Galician): #22211 in April 2026
• Global: #17286 in November 2023

There are 44 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	Dutch (nl) Qanat		98.4389
2	Croatian (hr) Kanat (vodovodni sustav)		95.5057
3	English (en) Qanat		91.3776
4	Catalan (ca) Qanat		90.3667
5	Slovenian (sl) Kanat		84.2242
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kanat		78.0874
7	Galician (gl) Qanat		70.5457
8	Bulgarian (bg) Ганат		65.7871
9	Hungarian (hu) Qanat		62.1426
10	Persian (fa) قنات		57.3261

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Qanat" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Qanat		2 501 992
2	Persian (fa) قنات		1 022 314
3	Japanese (ja) カナート		416 558
4	German (de) Qanat		361 076
5	Chinese (zh) 坎兒井		209 639
6	French (fr) Qanat		198 457
7	Russian (ru) Кяриз		168 091
8	Spanish (es) Qanat		142 051
9	Italian (it) Qanat		128 883
10	Dutch (nl) Qanat		73 123

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Qanat" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Qanat		11 374
2	German (de) Qanat		1 831
3	Persian (fa) قنات		1 632
4	Chinese (zh) 坎兒井		1 260
5	Japanese (ja) カナート		1 240
6	French (fr) Qanat		873
7	Russian (ru) Кяриз		831
8	Italian (it) Qanat		625
9	Spanish (es) Qanat		348
10	Korean (ko) 카나트		325

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

Language versions of the article "Qanat" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Qanat		379
2	French (fr) Qanat		132
3	Persian (fa) قنات		128
4	German (de) Qanat		116
5	Italian (it) Qanat		82
6	Dutch (nl) Qanat		60
7	Russian (ru) Кяриз		51
8	Chinese (zh) 坎兒井		41
9	Japanese (ja) カナート		39
10	Spanish (es) Qanat		31

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

Language versions of the article "Qanat" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Qanat		2
2	Bulgarian (bg) Ганат		1
3	Catalan (ca) Qanat		1
4	German (de) Qanat		1
5	Basque (eu) Qanat		1
6	Japanese (ja) カナート		1
7	Russian (ru) Кяриз		1
8	Arabic (ar) قناة (ري)		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Kəhriz		0
10	Czech (cs) Kanát		0

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

Language versions of the article "Qanat" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Persian (fa) قنات		574
2	English (en) Qanat		481
3	Arabic (ar) قناة (ري)		374
4	Chinese (zh) 坎兒井		296
5	French (fr) Qanat		264
6	Italian (it) Qanat		175
7	Danish (da) Kareze		149
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kanat		136
9	German (de) Qanat		133
10	Japanese (ja) カナート		80

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قناة (ري)
az	Azerbaijani Kəhriz
bg	Bulgarian Ганат
ca	Catalan Qanat
cs	Czech Kanát
da	Danish Kareze
de	German Qanat
el	Greek Κανάτ
en	English Qanat
eo	Esperanto Kanato
es	Spanish Qanat
eu	Basque Qanat
fa	Persian قنات
fr	French Qanat
gl	Galician Qanat
he	Hebrew פוגארה
hi	Hindi कारेज़
hr	Croatian Kanat (vodovodni sustav)
hu	Hungarian Qanat
id	Indonesian Qanat
it	Italian Qanat
ja	Japanese カナート
kk	Kazakh Кәріз
ko	Korean 카나트
lt	Lithuanian Kiarizas
ms	Malay Qanat
nl	Dutch Qanat
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Qanat
no	Norwegian Qanat
pl	Polish Kanat
pt	Portuguese Qanat
ru	Russian Кяриз
sh	Serbo-Croatian Kanat
simple	Simple English Qanat
sl	Slovenian Kanat
sr	Serbian Канат (наводњавање)
sv	Swedish Qanat
ta	Tamil கனாட் நீர்ப்பாசனம்
th	Thai กะนาต
tr	Turkish Kehriz
uk	Ukrainian Кяриз
ur	Urdu کاریز
uz	Uzbek Koriz
zh	Chinese 坎兒井

Best Rank

Galician: #22211 04.2026

Global: #17286 11.2023

Best Rank

Galician: #225 05.2026

Global: #8522 04.2020

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