Herat

Quality:

Herat - capital of Herat Province, Afghanistan. This city is the 1073^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 998^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Herat” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8026^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 998^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1073^rd most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8440^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Herat”, its content was written by 28 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8026^th place) and edited by 2365 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Herat is on the 998^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1073^rd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 44 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11976 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #708 in September 2021
• Global: #259 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4510 in April 2010
• Global: #3929 in August 2021

There are 50 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) Herat		93.3737
2	Slovenian (sl) Herat		72.7889
3	Persian (fa) هرات		71.4567
4	Spanish (es) Herat		57.2206
5	Dutch (nl) Herat (stad)		54.5689
6	German (de) Herat		53.8718
7	Turkish (tr) Herat		53.5249
8	Swedish (sv) Herat		53.1722
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Herat		50.2686
10	Thai (th) เฮราต		48.922

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Herat		2 992 542
2	Persian (fa) هرات		1 121 796
3	Russian (ru) Герат		589 091
4	German (de) Herat		483 984
5	Spanish (es) Herat		246 761
6	Italian (it) Herat		207 491
7	French (fr) Hérat		198 257
8	Arabic (ar) هراة		171 479
9	Polish (pl) Herat		149 764
10	Turkish (tr) Herat		130 432

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) Herat		12 501
2	Persian (fa) هرات		4 431
3	Russian (ru) Герат		3 268
4	German (de) Herat		1 453
5	Italian (it) Herat		971
6	French (fr) Hérat		817
7	Turkish (tr) Herat		700
8	Spanish (es) Herat		656
9	Chinese (zh) 赫拉特		593
10	Japanese (ja) ヘラート		497

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Herat		553
2	Persian (fa) هرات		263
3	German (de) Herat		204
4	French (fr) Hérat		127
5	Russian (ru) Герат		124
6	Dutch (nl) Herat (stad)		115
7	Italian (it) Herat		88
8	Spanish (es) Herat		71
9	Japanese (ja) ヘラート		43
10	Chinese (zh) 赫拉特		41

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	Persian (fa) هرات		4
2	English (en) Herat		2
3	Russian (ru) Герат		2
4	Urdu (ur) ہرات		2
5	Arabic (ar) هراة		1
6	German (de) Herat		1
7	Basque (eu) Herat		1
8	French (fr) Hérat		1
9	Hebrew (he) הראת		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Herat		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information