Basra

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Basra - capital of Basra Governorate, in southern Iraq. This city is the 795^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 579^th most popular city in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “Basra” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 32 references and 16 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Norwegian (Nynorsk)) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

The 579^th most popular in cities in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 795^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 3597^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Basra”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and edited by 2222 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Basra is on the 579^th place in local ranking of cities in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 795^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 188 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (3551^st place) and cited 18184 times in all languages (9155^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #158 in May 2022
• Global: #44 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #1761 in May 2018
• Global: #22911 in September 2018

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	English (en) Basra		100
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Basra		100
3	Arabic (ar) البصرة		78.7961
4	Slovenian (sl) Basra		74.1609
5	Spanish (es) Basora		64.3101
6	Chinese (zh) 巴士拉		63.312
7	German (de) Basra		48.8923
8	Thai (th) บัสรา		48.651
9	Portuguese (pt) Baçorá		39.229
10	Russian (ru) Басра		37.3205

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basra		3 662 991
2	Arabic (ar) البصرة		1 540 177
3	Persian (fa) بصره		439 517
4	German (de) Basra		423 213
5	Russian (ru) Басра		347 538
6	French (fr) Bassorah		330 855
7	Spanish (es) Basora		299 400
8	Japanese (ja) バスラ		219 528
9	Turkish (tr) Basra		214 408
10	Polish (pl) Basra		209 329

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) Basra		24 825
2	Arabic (ar) البصرة		5 401
3	Russian (ru) Басра		3 057
4	German (de) Basra		2 994
5	French (fr) Bassorah		2 496
6	Spanish (es) Basora		2 195
7	Persian (fa) بصره		2 075
8	Italian (it) Bassora		1 764
9	Japanese (ja) バスラ		1 617
10	Turkish (tr) Basra		1 114

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basra		573
2	Arabic (ar) البصرة		267
3	German (de) Basra		148
4	French (fr) Bassorah		118
5	Russian (ru) Басра		87
6	Italian (it) Bassora		78
7	Dutch (nl) Basra		74
8	Persian (fa) بصره		72
9	Hebrew (he) בצרה (עיראק)		57
10	Spanish (es) Basora		54

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) Basra		3
2	Arabic (ar) البصرة		2
3	Chinese (zh) 巴士拉		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Bəsrə		1
5	German (de) Basra		1
6	Persian (fa) بصره		1
7	Indonesian (id) Basra		1
8	Swedish (sv) Basra		1
9	Thai (th) บัสรา		1
10	Belarusian (be) Басра		0

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

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