Damascus

Quality:

Damascus - capital and largest city of Syria. This city is the 124^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 153^rd most popular city in Latin Wikipedia. Article “Damascus” in Latin Wikipedia has 71 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 12 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Latin Wikipedia:

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The 2437^th most popular in Latin Wikipedia.

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The 609^th most editable in Latin Wikipedia.

The 153^rd most popular in cities in Latin Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5923^rd most popular in all topics.

The 1840^th most popular in AI.

The 124^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Latin Wikipedia:

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The 1276^th most popular in Latin Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3709^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2944^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Damascus”, its content was written by 58 registered users of Latin Wikipedia (609^th place) and edited by 5170 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1840^th place).

Damascus is on the 153^rd place in local ranking of cities in Latin Wikipedia and on the 124^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 228 times in Latin Wikipedia (2552^nd place) and cited 62479 times in all languages (2607^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Latin): #66 in February 2012
• Global: #122 in December 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Latin): #409 in January 2016
• Global: #187 in December 2024

There are 55 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	Arabic (ar) دمشق		100
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Damaskus		100
3	Esperanto (eo) Damasko		94.3686
4	English (en) Damascus		91.7624
5	German (de) Damaskus		87.601
6	Basque (eu) Damasko		77.0626
7	Persian (fa) دمشق		75.5206
8	Catalan (ca) Damasc		74.2263
9	Spanish (es) Damasco		74.211
10	Chinese (zh) 大马士革		71.3537

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Damascus		13 958 033
2	Arabic (ar) دمشق		3 077 675
3	Spanish (es) Damasco		2 747 198
4	German (de) Damaskus		2 653 144
5	Russian (ru) Дамаск		2 367 315
6	French (fr) Damas		1 587 613
7	Japanese (ja) ダマスカス		1 116 349
8	Italian (it) Damasco		1 104 437
9	Portuguese (pt) Damasco		1 047 328
10	Turkish (tr) Şam		932 947

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) Damascus		91 476
2	Russian (ru) Дамаск		17 401
3	Spanish (es) Damasco		14 147
4	Arabic (ar) دمشق		10 295
5	German (de) Damaskus		9 572
6	Italian (it) Damasco		7 876
7	Chinese (zh) 大马士革		7 782
8	French (fr) Damas		6 017
9	Japanese (ja) ダマスカス		5 542
10	Portuguese (pt) Damasco		4 326

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Damascus		1 068
2	German (de) Damaskus		434
3	French (fr) Damas		292
4	Arabic (ar) دمشق		281
5	Italian (it) Damasco		215
6	Hebrew (he) דמשק		189
7	Russian (ru) Дамаск		183
8	Spanish (es) Damasco		175
9	Dutch (nl) Damascus		162
10	Turkish (tr) Şam		109

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) Damascus		13
2	Arabic (ar) دمشق		6
3	Chinese (zh) 大马士革		5
4	Azerbaijani (az) Dəməşq		2
5	German (de) Damaskus		2
6	French (fr) Damas		2
7	Dutch (nl) Damascus		2
8	Spanish (es) Damasco		1
9	Persian (fa) دمشق		1
10	Hebrew (he) דמשק		1

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

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