Большой Ближний Восток

Greater Middle East - loose political term introduced in the 2000s. Article “Большой Ближний Восток” in Russian Wikipedia has 21.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 6 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Большой Ближний Восток” was edited by 1 authors in Russian Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Большой Ближний Восток”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 591 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 1462 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #11979 in November 2022
• Global: #13987 in January 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #36658 in March 2022
• Global: #27741 in October 2023

There are 24 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	German (de) Großraum Mittlerer Osten		57.7733
2	Turkish (tr) Büyük Orta Doğu		35.2514
3	Chinese (zh) 大中东地区		28.66
4	Indonesian (id) Timur Tengah Raya		26.775
5	Hindi (hi) ग्रेटर मध्य पूर्व		25.5537
6	Urdu (ur) مشرق وسطی اعظمی		25.3782
7	Azerbaijani (az) Böyük Orta Şərq		24.9752
8	English (en) Greater Middle East		24.9101
9	Korean (ko) 대중동		22.4163
10	Arabic (ar) الشرق الأوسط الكبير		21.3135

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Большой Ближний Восток" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Turkish (tr) Büyük Orta Doğu		1 298 374
2	English (en) Greater Middle East		1 207 350
3	Russian (ru) Большой Ближний Восток		232 492
4	Arabic (ar) الشرق الأوسط الكبير		193 181
5	French (fr) Grand Moyen-Orient		145 253
6	Persian (fa) خاورمیانه بزرگ		135 521
7	German (de) Großraum Mittlerer Osten		109 687
8	Spanish (es) Gran Oriente Medio		99 832
9	Italian (it) Grande Medio Oriente		44 512
10	Portuguese (pt) Grande Oriente Médio		43 448

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Большой Ближний Восток" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Turkish (tr) Büyük Orta Doğu		22 545
2	English (en) Greater Middle East		10 074
3	Persian (fa) خاورمیانه بزرگ		2 574
4	Russian (ru) Большой Ближний Восток		1 886
5	Arabic (ar) الشرق الأوسط الكبير		1 565
6	French (fr) Grand Moyen-Orient		764
7	German (de) Großraum Mittlerer Osten		684
8	Spanish (es) Gran Oriente Medio		509
9	Chinese (zh) 大中东地区		378
10	Italian (it) Grande Medio Oriente		303

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

Language versions of the article "Большой Ближний Восток" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Greater Middle East		215
2	French (fr) Grand Moyen-Orient		68
3	Turkish (tr) Büyük Orta Doğu		60
4	Arabic (ar) الشرق الأوسط الكبير		36
5	German (de) Großraum Mittlerer Osten		34
6	Italian (it) Grande Medio Oriente		25
7	Russian (ru) Большой Ближний Восток		22
8	Spanish (es) Gran Oriente Medio		18
9	Persian (fa) خاورمیانه بزرگ		17
10	Simple English (simple) Greater Middle East		16

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

Language versions of the article "Большой Ближний Восток" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Greater Middle East		4
2	Turkish (tr) Büyük Orta Doğu		2
3	Russian (ru) Большой Ближний Восток		1
4	Arabic (ar) الشرق الأوسط الكبير		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Böyük Orta Şərq		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Широк Среден Изток		0
7	Czech (cs) Širší Střední východ		0
8	German (de) Großraum Mittlerer Osten		0
9	Greek (el) Ευρύτερη Μέση Ανατολή		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Granda Mezoriento		0

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

Language versions of the article "Большой Ближний Восток" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Greater Middle East		473
2	Persian (fa) خاورمیانه بزرگ		258
3	Arabic (ar) الشرق الأوسط الكبير		155
4	Chinese (zh) 大中东地区		122
5	Urdu (ur) مشرق وسطی اعظمی		91
6	Vietnamese (vi) Đại Trung Đông		79
7	Korean (ko) 대중동		56
8	Simple English (simple) Greater Middle East		33
9	German (de) Großraum Mittlerer Osten		22
10	Greek (el) Ευρύτερη Μέση Ανατολή		19

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الشرق الأوسط الكبير
az	Azerbaijani Böyük Orta Şərq
bg	Bulgarian Широк Среден Изток
cs	Czech Širší Střední východ
de	German Großraum Mittlerer Osten
el	Greek Ευρύτερη Μέση Ανατολή
en	English Greater Middle East
eo	Esperanto Granda Mezoriento
es	Spanish Gran Oriente Medio
eu	Basque Ekialde Hurbil Handia
fa	Persian خاورمیانه بزرگ
fr	French Grand Moyen-Orient
hi	Hindi ग्रेटर मध्य पूर्व
hy	Armenian Մեծ Մերձավոր Արևելք
id	Indonesian Timur Tengah Raya
it	Italian Grande Medio Oriente
ko	Korean 대중동
pt	Portuguese Grande Oriente Médio
ru	Russian Большой Ближний Восток
simple	Simple English Greater Middle East
tr	Turkish Büyük Orta Doğu
ur	Urdu مشرق وسطی اعظمی
vi	Vietnamese Đại Trung Đông
zh	Chinese 大中东地区

Best Rank

Russian: #36658 03.2022

Global: #27741 10.2023

Best Rank

Russian: #11979 11.2022

Global: #13987 01.2024

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