Najaf

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Najaf - city in central-south Iraq. This city is the 1505^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 616^th most popular city in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “Najaf” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 44.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.33 points.

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:

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The 7948^th most editable in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

The 616^th most popular in cities in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1505^th most popular in cities.

Since the creation of article “Najaf”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (7948^th place) and edited by 1392 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Najaf is on the 616^th place in local ranking of cities in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 1505^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 154 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (4701^st place) and cited 8659 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #311 in January 2012
• Global: #685 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #3138 in June 2022
• Global: #29337 in June 2025

There are 49 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) Najaf		81.9903
2	Malay (ms) Najaf		59.7155
3	Armenian (hy) Նաջաֆ		58.6889
4	Arabic (ar) النجف		58.0337
5	Uzbek (uz) Najaf		53.0197
6	Slovenian (sl) Nadžaf		48.85
7	Thai (th) นาจาฟ		48.0272
8	Simple English (simple) Najaf		44.9984
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Najaf		44.242
10	Russian (ru) Эн-Наджаф		35.4785

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Najaf		1 699 758
2	Arabic (ar) النجف		845 809
3	Persian (fa) نجف		547 331
4	Turkish (tr) Necef		182 003
5	French (fr) Nadjaf		173 357
6	German (de) Nadschaf		170 363
7	Russian (ru) Эн-Наджаф		158 192
8	Spanish (es) Náyaf		110 132
9	Italian (it) Najaf		96 047
10	Polish (pl) An-Nadżaf		86 123

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) Najaf		25 842
2	Arabic (ar) النجف		6 258
3	Russian (ru) Эн-Наджаф		3 138
4	German (de) Nadschaf		2 423
5	Persian (fa) نجف		2 152
6	Italian (it) Najaf		2 126
7	French (fr) Nadjaf		1 890
8	Turkish (tr) Necef		1 841
9	Spanish (es) Náyaf		1 697
10	Hebrew (he) נג'ף		1 411

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Najaf		304
2	Persian (fa) نجف		123
3	Arabic (ar) النجف		113
4	German (de) Nadschaf		82
5	French (fr) Nadjaf		79
6	Italian (it) Najaf		59
7	Russian (ru) Эн-Наджаф		51
8	Hebrew (he) נג'ף		47
9	Dutch (nl) Najaf		47
10	Galician (gl) Najaf		34

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	Arabic (ar) النجف		5
2	Persian (fa) نجف		5
3	English (en) Najaf		3
4	Azerbaijani (az) Nəcəf		1
5	Indonesian (id) Najaf		1
6	Swedish (sv) Najaf		1
7	Belarusian (be) Неджэф		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Наджаф		0
9	Catalan (ca) Najaf		0
10	Czech (cs) Nadžaf		0

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

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