Basra

Basra - capital of Basra Governorate, in southern Iraq. This city is the 795^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 841^st most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Basra” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 192 references and 27 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Basra” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Basra”, its content was written by 573 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2222 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Basra is on the 841^st place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 795^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 3189 times in English Wikipedia (8982^nd place) and cited 18184 times in all languages (9155^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #24 in March 2003
• Global: #44 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #28272 in March 2008
• Global: #22911 in September 2018

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	English (en) Basra		100
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Basra		100
3	Arabic (ar) البصرة		78.7961
4	Slovenian (sl) Basra		74.1609
5	Spanish (es) Basora		64.3101
6	Chinese (zh) 巴士拉		63.312
7	German (de) Basra		48.8923
8	Thai (th) บัสรา		48.651
9	Portuguese (pt) Baçorá		39.229
10	Russian (ru) Басра		37.3205

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Basra" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basra		3 662 991
2	Arabic (ar) البصرة		1 540 177
3	Persian (fa) بصره		439 517
4	German (de) Basra		423 213
5	Russian (ru) Басра		347 538
6	French (fr) Bassorah		330 855
7	Spanish (es) Basora		299 400
8	Japanese (ja) バスラ		219 528
9	Turkish (tr) Basra		214 408
10	Polish (pl) Basra		209 329

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Basra" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basra		24 825
2	Arabic (ar) البصرة		5 401
3	Russian (ru) Басра		3 057
4	German (de) Basra		2 994
5	French (fr) Bassorah		2 496
6	Spanish (es) Basora		2 195
7	Persian (fa) بصره		2 075
8	Italian (it) Bassora		1 764
9	Japanese (ja) バスラ		1 617
10	Turkish (tr) Basra		1 114

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

Language versions of the article "Basra" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basra		573
2	Arabic (ar) البصرة		267
3	German (de) Basra		148
4	French (fr) Bassorah		118
5	Russian (ru) Басра		87
6	Italian (it) Bassora		78
7	Dutch (nl) Basra		74
8	Persian (fa) بصره		72
9	Hebrew (he) בצרה (עיראק)		57
10	Spanish (es) Basora		54

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

Language versions of the article "Basra" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basra		3
2	Arabic (ar) البصرة		2
3	Chinese (zh) 巴士拉		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Bəsrə		1
5	German (de) Basra		1
6	Persian (fa) بصره		1
7	Indonesian (id) Basra		1
8	Swedish (sv) Basra		1
9	Thai (th) บัสรา		1
10	Belarusian (be) Басра		0

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

Language versions of the article "Basra" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Arabic (ar) البصرة		3 374
2	English (en) Basra		3 189
3	Urdu (ur) بصرہ		937
4	Persian (fa) بصره		867
5	French (fr) Bassorah		841
6	German (de) Basra		726
7	Russian (ru) Басра		669
8	Italian (it) Bassora		599
9	Spanish (es) Basora		506
10	Hebrew (he) בצרה (עיראק)		496

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic البصرة
az	Azerbaijani Bəsrə
be	Belarusian Басра
bg	Bulgarian Басра
ca	Catalan Bàssora
cs	Czech Basra
da	Danish Basra
de	German Basra
el	Greek Μπάσρα
en	English Basra
eo	Esperanto Basra
es	Spanish Basora
et	Estonian Basra
eu	Basque Basora
fa	Persian بصره
fi	Finnish Basra
fr	French Bassorah
he	Hebrew בצרה (עיראק)
hi	Hindi बसरा
hr	Croatian Basra
hu	Hungarian Baszra
hy	Armenian Բասրա
id	Indonesian Basra
it	Italian Bassora
ja	Japanese バスラ
ka	Georgian ბასრა
kk	Kazakh Басра
ko	Korean 바스라
la	Latin Basra
lt	Lithuanian Basra
ms	Malay Basrah
nl	Dutch Basra
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Basra
no	Norwegian Basra
pl	Polish Basra
pt	Portuguese Baçorá
ro	Romanian Basra
ru	Russian Басра
sh	Serbo-Croatian Basra
simple	Simple English Basra
sk	Slovak Basra (mesto v Iraku)
sl	Slovenian Basra
sr	Serbian Басра
sv	Swedish Basra
ta	Tamil பசுரா
th	Thai บัสรา
tr	Turkish Basra
uk	Ukrainian Басра
ur	Urdu بصرہ
uz	Uzbek Basra
vi	Vietnamese Basra
zh	Chinese 巴士拉

Best Rank

English: #28272 03.2008

Global: #22911 09.2018

Best Rank

English: #24 03.2003

Global: #44 03.2003

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