Varanasi

Quality:

Varanasi - city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of India. This city is the 301^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 507^th most popular city in Vietnamese Wikipedia. Article “Varanasi” in Vietnamese Wikipedia has 28.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Vietnamese Wikipedia:

The 507^th most popular in cities in Vietnamese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8391^st most popular in AI.

The 301^st most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9796^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Varanasi”, its content was written by 39 registered users of Vietnamese Wikipedia and edited by 2758 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8391^st place).

Varanasi is on the 507^th place in local ranking of cities in Vietnamese Wikipedia and on the 301^st place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 101 times in Vietnamese Wikipedia and cited 16674 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Vietnamese): #2858 in February 2009
• Global: #1376 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Vietnamese): #16032 in September 2009
• Global: #7399 in December 2023

There are 52 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, 2025 (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	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		100
2	Urdu (ur) وارانسی		95.2357
3	English (en) Varanasi		94.473
4	Slovenian (sl) Varanasi		91.8776
5	Tamil (ta) வாரணாசி		90.4803
6	Hebrew (he) ואראנסי		70.0244
7	Russian (ru) Варанаси		47.6407
8	German (de) Varanasi		47.327
9	French (fr) Bénarès		45.355
10	Latin (la) Varanasi		45.1572

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Varanasi		12 676 387
2	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		1 424 425
3	Russian (ru) Варанаси		783 524
4	German (de) Varanasi		745 047
5	Spanish (es) Benarés		683 265
6	French (fr) Bénarès		554 323
7	Japanese (ja) ヴァーラーナシー		527 405
8	Italian (it) Varanasi		486 482
9	Polish (pl) Waranasi		313 127
10	Swedish (sv) Varanasi		206 500

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) Varanasi		50 986
2	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		6 270
3	Russian (ru) Варанаси		3 056
4	Japanese (ja) ヴァーラーナシー		2 113
5	German (de) Varanasi		2 084
6	French (fr) Bénarès		1 827
7	Italian (it) Varanasi		1 754
8	Spanish (es) Benarés		1 699
9	Chinese (zh) 瓦拉納西		1 138
10	Portuguese (pt) Varanasi		775

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Varanasi		1 100
2	German (de) Varanasi		163
3	French (fr) Bénarès		149
4	Russian (ru) Варанаси		116
5	Italian (it) Varanasi		111
6	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		79
7	Dutch (nl) Benares (stad)		79
8	Japanese (ja) ヴァーラーナシー		72
9	Hebrew (he) ואראנסי		67
10	Tamil (ta) வாரணாசி		61

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	English (en) Varanasi		7
2	Danish (da) Varanasi		2
3	Swedish (sv) Varanasi		2
4	Urdu (ur) وارانسی		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Bənarəs		1
6	Basque (eu) Varanasi		1
7	Finnish (fi) Varanasi		1
8	Hindi (hi) वाराणसी		1
9	Dutch (nl) Benares (stad)		1
10	Russian (ru) Варанаси		1

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

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