Najaf

Quality:

Najaf - city in central-south Iraq. This city is the 1489^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 999^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Najaf” in Simple English Wikipedia has 43.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 23 references and 3 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:

The 999^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1489^th most popular in cities.

Since the creation of article “Najaf”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1437 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Najaf is on the 999^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1489^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 31 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9263 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #556 in October 2010
• Global: #684 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5207 in April 2012
• Global: #11613 in March 2026

There are 49 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) Najaf		82.0605
2	Malay (ms) Najaf		60.8637
3	Armenian (hy) Նաջաֆ		59.7638
4	Arabic (ar) النجف		58.5726
5	Uzbek (uz) Najaf		53.0743
6	Slovenian (sl) Nadžaf		48.7598
7	Thai (th) นาจาฟ		47.7628
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Najaf		44.242
9	Simple English (simple) Najaf		43.2597
10	Russian (ru) Эн-Наджаф		37.0358

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Najaf		1 863 483
2	Arabic (ar) النجف		885 734
3	Persian (fa) نجف		581 671
4	Turkish (tr) Necef		196 979
5	French (fr) Nadjaf		185 810
6	German (de) Nadschaf		183 776
7	Russian (ru) Эн-Наджаф		179 406
8	Spanish (es) Náyaf		118 933
9	Italian (it) Najaf		112 314
10	Polish (pl) An-Nadżaf		89 724

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) Najaf		8 620
2	Persian (fa) نجف		2 622
3	Russian (ru) Эн-Наджаф		786
4	French (fr) Nadjaf		747
5	Hebrew (he) נג'ף		661
6	German (de) Nadschaf		621
7	Turkish (tr) Necef		583
8	Italian (it) Najaf		430
9	Spanish (es) Náyaf		414
10	Chinese (zh) 納杰夫		316

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Najaf		314
2	Persian (fa) نجف		127
3	Arabic (ar) النجف		125
4	German (de) Nadschaf		86
5	French (fr) Nadjaf		79
6	Italian (it) Najaf		60
7	Russian (ru) Эн-Наджаф		51
8	Dutch (nl) Najaf		48
9	Hebrew (he) נג'ף		47
10	Galician (gl) Najaf		34

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) النجف		3
2	Chinese (zh) 納杰夫		3
3	Persian (fa) نجف		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Nəcəf		0
5	Belarusian (be) Неджэф		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Наджаф		0
7	Catalan (ca) Najaf		0
8	Czech (cs) Nadžaf		0
9	Danish (da) Najaf		0
10	German (de) Nadschaf		0

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

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