Shiraz

Quality:

Shiraz - city in Fars Province, Iran. This city is the 558^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 598^th most popular city in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Shiraz” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 598^th most popular in cities in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8190^th most popular in AI.

The 558^th most popular in cities.

Since the creation of article “Shiraz”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2834 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8190^th place).

Shiraz is on the 598^th place in local ranking of cities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 558^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 299 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 19296 times in all languages (8958^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #845 in April 2009
• Global: #1770 in January 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #588 in December 2025
• Global: #11644 in March 2026

There are 53 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	Chinese (zh) 設拉子		100
2	Ukrainian (uk) Шираз		100
3	Hindi (hi) शीराज़		100
4	Persian (fa) شیراز		92.6202
5	English (en) Shiraz		86.8808
6	Slovak (sk) Širáz		75.5958
7	Norwegian (no) Shiraz		72.141
8	Slovenian (sl) Širaz		61.6263
9	Arabic (ar) شيراز		61.6245
10	Japanese (ja) シーラーズ		55.6258

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shiraz		4 607 385
2	Persian (fa) شیراز		4 029 294
3	Russian (ru) Шираз		638 711
4	German (de) Schiras		529 574
5	Arabic (ar) شيراز		422 636
6	French (fr) Chiraz		377 163
7	Spanish (es) Shiraz		265 131
8	Italian (it) Shiraz		238 292
9	Turkish (tr) Şiraz		194 162
10	Swedish (sv) Shiraz		143 474

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) Shiraz		11 898
2	Persian (fa) شیراز		9 280
3	Russian (ru) Шираз		2 267
4	German (de) Schiras		1 512
5	French (fr) Chiraz		1 164
6	Chinese (zh) 設拉子		881
7	Italian (it) Shiraz		798
8	Turkish (tr) Şiraz		685
9	Spanish (es) Shiraz		663
10	Japanese (ja) シーラーズ		490

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shiraz		731
2	Persian (fa) شیراز		598
3	German (de) Schiras		205
4	French (fr) Chiraz		156
5	Russian (ru) Шираз		86
6	Italian (it) Shiraz		78
7	Dutch (nl) Shiraz (Iran)		77
8	Hebrew (he) שיראז		58
9	Spanish (es) Shiraz		52
10	Hungarian (hu) Siráz		51

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) شیراز		5
2	English (en) Shiraz		4
3	French (fr) Chiraz		3
4	Urdu (ur) شیراز		3
5	German (de) Schiras		2
6	Arabic (ar) شيراز		1
7	Finnish (fi) Šīrāz		1
8	Dutch (nl) Shiraz (Iran)		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Şiraz		0
10	Belarusian (be) Шыраз		0

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

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