2003 invasion of Iraq

Quality:

2003 invasion of Iraq - 2003 military invasion led by the United States. This event is the 177^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 140^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “2003 invasion of Iraq” in Simple English Wikipedia has 62.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 36 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8027^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2092^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 140^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7859^th most popular in all topics.

The 4010^th most popular in AI.

The 177^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3230^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “2003 invasion of Iraq”, its content was written by 58 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2092^nd place) and edited by 3977 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4010^th place).

2003 invasion of Iraq is on the 140^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 177^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 122 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16274 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #89 in June 2010
• Global: #4 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1056 in December 2024
• Global: #803 in March 2022

There are 33 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	Portuguese (pt) Invasão do Iraque em 2003		90.0987
2	English (en) 2003 invasion of Iraq		86.4785
3	Polish (pl) II wojna w Zatoce Perskiej		83.9483
4	Arabic (ar) غزو العراق		70.3892
5	Russian (ru) Вторжение США и их союзников в Ирак (2003)		69.3868
6	Norwegian (no) Invasjonen av Irak i 2003		63.6235
7	Spanish (es) Invasión de Irak de 2003		63.4599
8	Simple English (simple) 2003 invasion of Iraq		62.6545
9	French (fr) Invasion de l'Irak par les États-Unis en 2003		62.2138
10	Catalan (ca) Invasió de l'Iraq de 2003		57.5056

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2003 invasion of Iraq		20 103 374
2	Arabic (ar) غزو العراق		2 932 009
3	Spanish (es) Invasión de Irak de 2003		2 798 681
4	Russian (ru) Вторжение США и их союзников в Ирак (2003)		1 890 607
5	Polish (pl) II wojna w Zatoce Perskiej		1 786 971
6	Portuguese (pt) Invasão do Iraque em 2003		837 201
7	French (fr) Invasion de l'Irak par les États-Unis en 2003		531 678
8	Persian (fa) حمله ۲۰۰۳ به عراق		395 314
9	Vietnamese (vi) Cuộc tấn công Iraq 2003		314 787
10	Indonesian (id) Invasi Irak 2003		206 491

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) 2003 invasion of Iraq		55 328
2	Persian (fa) حمله ۲۰۰۳ به عراق		6 458
3	Russian (ru) Вторжение США и их союзников в Ирак (2003)		4 603
4	Polish (pl) II wojna w Zatoce Perskiej		3 856
5	Spanish (es) Invasión de Irak de 2003		3 057
6	French (fr) Invasion de l'Irak par les États-Unis en 2003		1 589
7	Italian (it) Invasione dell'Iraq del 2003		968
8	Portuguese (pt) Invasão do Iraque em 2003		721
9	Turkish (tr) 2003 Irak askerî müdahalesi		615
10	Japanese (ja) 2003年イラク攻撃		430

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2003 invasion of Iraq		2 321
2	Spanish (es) Invasión de Irak de 2003		306
3	Arabic (ar) غزو العراق		222
4	French (fr) Invasion de l'Irak par les États-Unis en 2003		191
5	Russian (ru) Вторжение США и их союзников в Ирак (2003)		178
6	Polish (pl) II wojna w Zatoce Perskiej		146
7	Portuguese (pt) Invasão do Iraque em 2003		87
8	Simple English (simple) 2003 invasion of Iraq		58
9	Vietnamese (vi) Cuộc tấn công Iraq 2003		55
10	Catalan (ca) Invasió de l'Iraq de 2003		53

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) 2003 invasion of Iraq		10
2	Catalan (ca) Invasió de l'Iraq de 2003		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) ABŞ və müttəfiqlərinin İraqa müdaxiləsi (2003)		2
4	Russian (ru) Вторжение США и их союзников в Ирак (2003)		2
5	French (fr) Invasion de l'Irak par les États-Unis en 2003		1
6	Arabic (ar) غزو العراق		0
7	Belarusian (be) Уварванне ў Ірак (2003)		0
8	Danish (da) Invasionen af Irak 2003		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Invado de Irako en 2003		0
10	Spanish (es) Invasión de Irak de 2003		0

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

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