Kaaba

Quality:

Kaaba - cubical shrine in Mecca, Saudi Arabia; direction of prayer for Muslims. This building is the 13^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 16^th most popular building in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Kaaba” in Simple English Wikipedia has 61.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 32 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Arabic 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 1808^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3839^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 16^th most popular in buildings in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2372^nd most popular in all topics.

The 2456^th most popular in AI.

The 13^th most popular in buildings.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4739^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4223^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4943^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Kaaba”, its content was written by 42 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3839^th place) and edited by 4779 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2456^th place).

Kaaba is on the 16^th place in local ranking of buildings in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 13^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 31 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9227 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #191 in October 2011
• Global: #517 in August 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #151 in June 2023
• Global: #286 in September 2015

There are 54 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	Arabic (ar) الكعبة		96.2812
2	English (en) Kaaba		95.8368
3	Japanese (ja) カアバ		87.639
4	Slovenian (sl) Kaba (svetišče)		83.9068
5	Turkish (tr) Kâbe		77.114
6	Portuguese (pt) Caaba		76.433
7	Latin (la) Caba		74.5127
8	Chinese (zh) 克爾白		73.1882
9	Thai (th) กะอ์บะฮ์		65.4725
10	German (de) Kaaba		64.719

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kaaba		26 084 215
2	Russian (ru) Кааба		5 218 024
3	Arabic (ar) الكعبة		4 946 462
4	German (de) Kaaba		4 287 043
5	French (fr) Kaaba		3 379 807
6	Turkish (tr) Kâbe		2 796 205
7	Spanish (es) Kaaba		2 717 146
8	Indonesian (id) Ka'bah		1 646 240
9	Persian (fa) کعبه		1 619 697
10	Italian (it) Kaʿba		1 260 821

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) Kaaba		86 914
2	Russian (ru) Кааба		12 880
3	German (de) Kaaba		12 004
4	French (fr) Kaaba		8 452
5	Turkish (tr) Kâbe		5 999
6	Spanish (es) Kaaba		5 988
7	Persian (fa) کعبه		4 320
8	Japanese (ja) カアバ		4 054
9	Italian (it) Kaʿba		3 235
10	Indonesian (id) Ka'bah		2 997

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kaaba		1 399
2	German (de) Kaaba		372
3	French (fr) Kaaba		310
4	Arabic (ar) الكعبة		236
5	Turkish (tr) Kâbe		199
6	Dutch (nl) Kaäba		179
7	Russian (ru) Кааба		169
8	Persian (fa) کعبه		162
9	Spanish (es) Kaaba		148
10	Italian (it) Kaʿba		145

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	German (de) Kaaba		9
2	English (en) Kaaba		9
3	Azerbaijani (az) Kəbə		2
4	Arabic (ar) الكعبة		1
5	Catalan (ca) Kaba		1
6	Basque (eu) Kaaba		1
7	French (fr) Kaaba		1
8	Indonesian (id) Ka'bah		1
9	Slovenian (sl) Kaba (svetišče)		1
10	Serbian (sr) Ћаба		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