Varanasi

Quality:

Varanasi - city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of India. This city is the 302^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 881^st most popular city in Croatian Wikipedia. Article “Varanasi” in Croatian Wikipedia has 15.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.81 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Croatian Wikipedia:

The 881^st most popular in cities in Croatian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8539^th most popular in AI.

The 302^nd most popular in cities.

Since the creation of article “Varanasi”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Croatian Wikipedia and edited by 2779 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8539^th place).

Varanasi is on the 881^st place in local ranking of cities in Croatian Wikipedia and on the 302^nd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 14 times in Croatian Wikipedia and cited 17129 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Croatian): #941 in February 2015
• Global: #1378 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Croatian): #755 in December 2025
• Global: #5159 in November 2025

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, 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	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		100
2	Urdu (ur) وارانسی		97.8162
3	English (en) Varanasi		94.6808
4	Slovenian (sl) Varanasi		91.4512
5	Tamil (ta) வாரணாசி		90.485
6	Hebrew (he) ואראנסי		69.3434
7	Malay (ms) Varanasi (Kashi)		54.8058
8	German (de) Varanasi		48.0081
9	Russian (ru) Варанаси		47.7242
10	Latin (la) Varanasi		45.7312

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Varanasi		13 316 615
2	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		1 491 639
3	Russian (ru) Варанаси		881 760
4	German (de) Varanasi		795 458
5	Spanish (es) Benarés		723 296
6	French (fr) Bénarès		592 061
7	Japanese (ja) ヴァーラーナシー		558 957
8	Italian (it) Varanasi		523 455
9	Polish (pl) Waranasi		326 323
10	Swedish (sv) Varanasi		221 135

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		37 724
2	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		7 075
3	Russian (ru) Варанаси		3 417
4	Japanese (ja) ヴァーラーナシー		2 803
5	German (de) Varanasi		2 734
6	French (fr) Bénarès		1 804
7	Italian (it) Varanasi		1 506
8	Spanish (es) Benarés		1 335
9	Chinese (zh) 瓦拉納西		980
10	Polish (pl) Waranasi		754

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Varanasi		1 132
2	German (de) Varanasi		168
3	French (fr) Bénarès		153
4	Russian (ru) Варанаси		119
5	Italian (it) Varanasi		114
6	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		83
7	Dutch (nl) Varanasi (stad)		81
8	Japanese (ja) ヴァーラーナシー		74
9	Hebrew (he) ואראנסי		68
10	Spanish (es) Benarés		58

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	Azerbaijani (az) Bənarəs		2
3	Japanese (ja) ヴァーラーナシー		2
4	Catalan (ca) Benarés		1
5	Arabic (ar) فاراناسي		0
6	Belarusian (be) Варанасі		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Варанаси		0
8	Czech (cs) Váránasí		0
9	Danish (da) Varanasi		0
10	German (de) Varanasi		0

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

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