Jaffna

Quality:

Jaffna - capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. This city is the 2619^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities. Article “Jaffna” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 3.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 2619^th most popular in cities.

Since the creation of article “Jaffna”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and edited by 906 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Jaffna is on the 2619^th place in global ranking of cities on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 7 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 4466 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #1099 in September 2013
• Global: #9672 in August 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #6027 in October 2024
• Global: #39952 in January 2026

There are 41 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	English (en) Jaffna		84.8527
2	Tamil (ta) யாழ்ப்பாணம்		75.3125
3	Malay (ms) Jaffna		56.5005
4	Hebrew (he) ג'פנה		47.5602
5	Hindi (hi) जाफना		38.1696
6	German (de) Jaffna		37.138
7	French (fr) Jaffna		33.1611
8	Indonesian (id) Jaffna		31.9158
9	Japanese (ja) ジャフナ		30.9488
10	Esperanto (eo) Ĝafna		27.8066

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Jaffna		2 041 594
2	Tamil (ta) யாழ்ப்பாணம்		172 563
3	German (de) Jaffna		159 865
4	French (fr) Jaffna		114 175
5	Polish (pl) Dżafna		41 794
6	Russian (ru) Джафна (город)		36 821
7	Italian (it) Jaffna		32 882
8	Japanese (ja) ジャフナ		31 861
9	Spanish (es) Jaffna		27 630
10	Dutch (nl) Jaffna (stad)		22 733

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) Jaffna		5 731
2	German (de) Jaffna		438
3	Tamil (ta) யாழ்ப்பாணம்		348
4	French (fr) Jaffna		294
5	Japanese (ja) ジャフナ		176
6	Russian (ru) Джафна (город)		118
7	Chinese (zh) 賈夫納		108
8	Spanish (es) Jaffna		92
9	Polish (pl) Dżafna		85
10	Italian (it) Jaffna		74

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Jaffna		371
2	German (de) Jaffna		101
3	French (fr) Jaffna		84
4	Tamil (ta) யாழ்ப்பாணம்		38
5	Italian (it) Jaffna		37
6	Dutch (nl) Jaffna (stad)		33
7	Japanese (ja) ジャフナ		18
8	Russian (ru) Джафна (город)		18
9	Swedish (sv) Jaffna		18
10	Danish (da) Jaffna		15

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	German (de) Jaffna		3
2	Arabic (ar) جفنا (سريلانكا)		1
3	French (fr) Jaffna		1
4	Japanese (ja) ジャフナ		1
5	Belarusian (be) Джафна		0
6	Catalan (ca) Jaffna		0
7	Czech (cs) Jápané		0
8	Danish (da) Jaffna		0
9	Greek (el) Τζάφνα		0
10	English (en) Jaffna		0

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

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