Iran–Iraq War

Quality:

Iran–Iraq War - 1980-1988 war between Iran and Iraq. This event is the 73^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 58^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Iran–Iraq War” in Simple English Wikipedia has 63.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 36 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in Russian 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 3185^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3005^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 58^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2742^nd most popular in all topics.

The 1115^th most popular in AI.

The 73^rd most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3890^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3561^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8408^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Iran–Iraq War”, its content was written by 48 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3005^th place) and edited by 6205 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1115^th place).

Iran–Iraq War is on the 58^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 73^rd place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 176 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 25493 times in all languages (6617^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #107 in May 2022
• Global: #361 in September 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #117 in January 2020
• Global: #104 in March 2026

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	Russian (ru) Ирано-иракская война		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Guerra Irã-Iraque		100
3	German (de) Erster Golfkrieg		95
4	Chinese (zh) 两伊战争		93.7073
5	English (en) Iran–Iraq War		90
6	Arabic (ar) حرب الخليج الأولى		88.1294
7	Tamil (ta) ஈரான் – ஈராக் போர்		86.8056
8	Croatian (hr) Iransko-irački rat		84.555
9	Vietnamese (vi) Chiến tranh Iran – Iraq		84.5116
10	Catalan (ca) Guerra Iran-Iraq		83.2363

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Iran–Iraq War		20 823 481
2	Persian (fa) جنگ ایران و عراق		9 456 867
3	Arabic (ar) حرب الخليج الأولى		3 760 321
4	German (de) Erster Golfkrieg		3 649 460
5	Russian (ru) Ирано-иракская война		2 968 850
6	Spanish (es) Guerra Irán-Irak		2 648 081
7	Japanese (ja) イラン・イラク戦争		2 565 984
8	French (fr) Guerre Iran-Irak		2 136 196
9	Turkish (tr) Irak-İran Savaşı		1 304 683
10	Chinese (zh) 两伊战争		1 256 729

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) Iran–Iraq War		79 940
2	Persian (fa) جنگ ایران و عراق		39 327
3	Russian (ru) Ирано-иракская война		10 195
4	French (fr) Guerre Iran-Irak		9 407
5	Japanese (ja) イラン・イラク戦争		8 752
6	German (de) Erster Golfkrieg		7 944
7	Spanish (es) Guerra Irán-Irak		6 765
8	Chinese (zh) 两伊战争		3 932
9	Italian (it) Guerra Iran-Iraq		3 642
10	Turkish (tr) Irak-İran Savaşı		2 952

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Iran–Iraq War		2 040
2	Persian (fa) جنگ ایران و عراق		451
3	German (de) Erster Golfkrieg		441
4	French (fr) Guerre Iran-Irak		304
5	Arabic (ar) حرب الخليج الأولى		275
6	Russian (ru) Ирано-иракская война		217
7	Spanish (es) Guerra Irán-Irak		188
8	Italian (it) Guerra Iran-Iraq		185
9	Dutch (nl) Irak-Iranoorlog		172
10	Japanese (ja) イラン・イラク戦争		169

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) حرب الخليج الأولى		4
2	English (en) Iran–Iraq War		3
3	Catalan (ca) Guerra Iran-Iraq		2
4	German (de) Erster Golfkrieg		2
5	Esperanto (eo) Iran–Iraka Milito		2
6	Slovenian (sl) Iransko-iraška vojna		2
7	Spanish (es) Guerra Irán-Irak		1
8	Finnish (fi) Irakin–Iranin sota		1
9	French (fr) Guerre Iran-Irak		1
10	Hungarian (hu) Irak–iráni háború		1

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