Varanasi

Quality:

Varanasi - city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of India. This city is the 301^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 572^nd most popular city in Latin Wikipedia. Article “Varanasi” in Latin Wikipedia has 45.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 7 sections.

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:

Latin Wikipedia:

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The 8092^nd most popular in Latin Wikipedia.

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The 8151^st most editable in Latin Wikipedia.

The 572^nd most popular in cities in Latin Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8391^st most popular in AI.

The 301^st most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Latin Wikipedia:

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The 1563^rd most popular in Latin Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9796^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Varanasi”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Latin Wikipedia (8151^st place) and edited by 2758 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8391^st place).

Varanasi is on the 572^nd place in local ranking of cities in Latin Wikipedia and on the 301^st place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 30 times in Latin Wikipedia and cited 16674 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Latin): #115 in February 2013
• Global: #1376 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Latin): #1561 in June 2025
• 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		100
2	Urdu (ur) وارانسی		95.2357
3	English (en) Varanasi		94.473
4	Slovenian (sl) Varanasi		91.8776
5	Tamil (ta) வாரணாசி		90.4803
6	Hebrew (he) ואראנסי		70.0244
7	Russian (ru) Варанаси		47.6407
8	German (de) Varanasi		47.327
9	French (fr) Bénarès		45.355
10	Latin (la) Varanasi		45.1572

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Varanasi		12 676 387
2	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		1 424 425
3	Russian (ru) Варанаси		783 524
4	German (de) Varanasi		745 047
5	Spanish (es) Benarés		683 265
6	French (fr) Bénarès		554 323
7	Japanese (ja) ヴァーラーナシー		527 405
8	Italian (it) Varanasi		486 482
9	Polish (pl) Waranasi		313 127
10	Swedish (sv) Varanasi		206 500

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		50 986
2	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		6 270
3	Russian (ru) Варанаси		3 056
4	Japanese (ja) ヴァーラーナシー		2 113
5	German (de) Varanasi		2 084
6	French (fr) Bénarès		1 827
7	Italian (it) Varanasi		1 754
8	Spanish (es) Benarés		1 699
9	Chinese (zh) 瓦拉納西		1 138
10	Portuguese (pt) Varanasi		775

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Varanasi		1 100
2	German (de) Varanasi		163
3	French (fr) Bénarès		149
4	Russian (ru) Варанаси		116
5	Italian (it) Varanasi		111
6	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		79
7	Dutch (nl) Benares (stad)		79
8	Japanese (ja) ヴァーラーナシー		72
9	Hebrew (he) ואראנסי		67
10	Tamil (ta) வாரணாசி		61

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	Danish (da) Varanasi		2
3	Swedish (sv) Varanasi		2
4	Urdu (ur) وارانسی		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Bənarəs		1
6	Basque (eu) Varanasi		1
7	Finnish (fi) Varanasi		1
8	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		1
9	Dutch (nl) Benares (stad)		1
10	Russian (ru) Варанаси		1

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

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