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Urdu

Quality:

Urdu - Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia. Article “Urdu” in Simple English Wikipedia has 62.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 21 references and 15 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 774th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 1028th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 6303rd most popular in all topics.
The 3285th most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 2520th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Urdu”, its content was written by 83 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1028th place) and edited by 4372 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3285th place).

The article is cited 1262 times in Simple English Wikipedia (396th place) and cited 82700 times in all languages (2100th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #48 in June 2022
  • Global: #673 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #40 in March 2023
  • Global: #3197 in July 2019

There are 55 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Persian (fa)
زبان اردو
100
2Urdu (ur)
اردو
98.3502
3English (en)
Urdu
91.6396
4Hindi (hi)
उर्दू भाषा
79.7143
5Simple English (simple)
Urdu
62.2188
6Catalan (ca)
Urdú
54.674
7Latin (la)
Lingua Urdu
50.2477
8Arabic (ar)
اللغة الأردية
48.73
9Russian (ru)
Урду
46.7511
10Portuguese (pt)
Língua urdu
45.6742
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Urdu" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Urdu
22 377 043
2German (de)
Urdu
1 580 198
3Russian (ru)
Урду
1 382 249
4Spanish (es)
Urdu
1 303 486
5Arabic (ar)
اللغة الأردية
1 016 971
6Urdu (ur)
اردو
935 798
7Japanese (ja)
ウルドゥー語
880 212
8French (fr)
Ourdou
796 438
9Hindi (hi)
उर्दू भाषा
760 021
10Italian (it)
Lingua urdu
707 479
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Urdu" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Urdu
55 014
2Russian (ru)
Урду
5 796
3Japanese (ja)
ウルドゥー語
4 087
4German (de)
Urdu
3 984
5Spanish (es)
Urdu
3 260
6French (fr)
Ourdou
2 688
7Chinese (zh)
乌尔都语
2 242
8Persian (fa)
زبان اردو
2 229
9Italian (it)
Lingua urdu
2 148
10Turkish (tr)
Urduca
1 596
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Urdu" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Urdu
1 670
2German (de)
Urdu
238
3French (fr)
Ourdou
172
4Russian (ru)
Урду
139
5Hindi (hi)
उर्दू भाषा
126
6Italian (it)
Lingua urdu
114
7Urdu (ur)
اردو
114
8Dutch (nl)
Urdu
107
9Arabic (ar)
اللغة الأردية
104
10Spanish (es)
Urdu
84
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Urdu" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Urdu
3
2Persian (fa)
زبان اردو
2
3Russian (ru)
Урду
2
4Urdu (ur)
اردو
2
5Catalan (ca)
Urdú
1
6Basque (eu)
Urdu
1
7French (fr)
Ourdou
1
8Hindi (hi)
उर्दू भाषा
1
9Serbian (sr)
Урду (језик)
1
10Ukrainian (uk)
Урду
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Urdu" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Urdu
23 316
2Hindi (hi)
उर्दू भाषा
17 594
3Urdu (ur)
اردو
7 339
4Arabic (ar)
اللغة الأردية
3 203
5French (fr)
Ourdou
2 202
6Russian (ru)
Урду
1 874
7German (de)
Urdu
1 832
8Persian (fa)
زبان اردو
1 758
9Tamil (ta)
உருது
1 569
10Chinese (zh)
乌尔都语
1 535
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اللغة الأردية
azAzerbaijani
Urdu dili
beBelarusian
Урду
bgBulgarian
Урду
caCatalan
Urdú
csCzech
Urdština
daDanish
Urdu
deGerman
Urdu
elGreek
Γλώσσα Ούρντου
enEnglish
Urdu
eoEsperanto
Urduo
esSpanish
Urdu
etEstonian
Urdu keel
euBasque
Urdu
faPersian
زبان اردو
fiFinnish
Urdu
frFrench
Ourdou
glGalician
Lingua urdú
heHebrew
אורדו
hiHindi
उर्दू भाषा
hrCroatian
Urdski jezik
huHungarian
Urdu nyelv
hyArmenian
Ուրդու
idIndonesian
Bahasa Urdu
itItalian
Lingua urdu
jaJapanese
ウルドゥー語
kaGeorgian
ურდუ ენა
kkKazakh
Урду
koKorean
우르두어
laLatin
Lingua Urdu
ltLithuanian
Urdu
msMalay
Bahasa Urdu
nlDutch
Urdu
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Urdu
noNorwegian
Urdu
plPolish
Język urdu
ptPortuguese
Língua urdu
roRomanian
Limba urdu
ruRussian
Урду
shSerbo-Croatian
Urdski jezik
simpleSimple English
Urdu
skSlovak
Urdčina
slSlovenian
Urdujščina
srSerbian
Урду (језик)
svSwedish
Urdu
taTamil
உருது
thThai
ภาษาอูรดู
trTurkish
Urduca
ukUkrainian
Урду
urUrdu
اردو
uzUzbek
Urdu
viVietnamese
Tiếng Urdu
voVolapük
Lurduv
zhChinese
乌尔都语
zhminnanMin Nan
Urdu-gí

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#40
03.2023
Global:
#3197
07.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#48
06.2022
Global:
#673
01.2013

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Urdu from Wikipedia articles about Pakistan, Hindi, List of languages by total number of speakers, Languages of Pakistan and Hindustani. Whereas reading the article about Urdu people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Hindustani, Pakistan, Urdu alphabet, Indo-Aryan and Hindi.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: Urdu
de: Urdu
es: Urdu
fr: Ourdou
tr: Urduca
simple: Urdu
nl: Urdu
sv: Urdu
fi: Urdu
no: Urdu
da: Urdu
ca: Urdú
eo: Urduo
lt: Urdu
eu: Urdu
uz: Urdu
nn: Urdu
zhminnan: Urdu-gí
vo: Lurduv

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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