2003 invasion of Iraq

Quality:

2003 invasion of Iraq - 2003 military invasion led by the United States. This event is the 191^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 124^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “2003 invasion of Iraq” in Simple English Wikipedia has 66.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 36 references and 4 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:

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The 6787^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1951^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 124^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8954^th most popular in all topics.

The 4195^th most popular in AI.

The 191^st most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1723^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2881^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2541^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “2003 invasion of Iraq” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1723^rd place) and written by 40 authors in all languages (2541^st place).

Since the creation of article “2003 invasion of Iraq”, its content was written by 58 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1951^st place) and edited by 3835 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4195^th place).

2003 invasion of Iraq is on the 124^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 191^st place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 130 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13292 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #57 in June 2010
• Global: #4 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1058 in December 2024
• Global: #818 in March 2022

There are 33 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) 2003 invasion of Iraq		90.8648
2	Portuguese (pt) Invasão do Iraque em 2003		89.4564
3	Arabic (ar) غزو العراق		70.4865
4	Russian (ru) Вторжение США и их союзников в Ирак (2003)		68.6682
5	Simple English (simple) 2003 invasion of Iraq		66.4374
6	Spanish (es) Invasión de Irak de 2003		63.5247
7	Norwegian (no) Invasjonen av Irak i 2003		62.5214
8	French (fr) Invasion de l'Irak par les États-Unis en 2003		62.381
9	Polish (pl) II wojna w Zatoce Perskiej		58.3835
10	Catalan (ca) Invasió de l'Iraq de 2003		57.404

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2003 invasion of Iraq		16 936 666
2	Arabic (ar) غزو العراق		2 795 304
3	Spanish (es) Invasión de Irak de 2003		2 724 234
4	Russian (ru) Вторжение США и их союзников в Ирак (2003)		1 759 597
5	Polish (pl) II wojna w Zatoce Perskiej		1 696 950
6	Portuguese (pt) Invasão do Iraque em 2003		821 410
7	French (fr) Invasion de l'Irak par les États-Unis en 2003		448 456
8	Vietnamese (vi) Cuộc tấn công Iraq 2003		303 707
9	Persian (fa) حمله ۲۰۰۳ به عراق		263 939
10	Indonesian (id) Invasi Irak 2003		199 266

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) 2003 invasion of Iraq		138 920
2	Arabic (ar) غزو العراق		22 842
3	Russian (ru) Вторжение США и их союзников в Ирак (2003)		19 629
4	Polish (pl) II wojna w Zatoce Perskiej		16 102
5	Spanish (es) Invasión de Irak de 2003		10 169
6	Persian (fa) حمله ۲۰۰۳ به عراق		7 069
7	Italian (it) Invasione dell'Iraq del 2003		5 853
8	French (fr) Invasion de l'Irak par les États-Unis en 2003		4 737
9	Turkish (tr) 2003 Irak askerî müdahalesi		3 458
10	Portuguese (pt) Invasão do Iraque em 2003		3 050

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2003 invasion of Iraq		2 212
2	Spanish (es) Invasión de Irak de 2003		297
3	Arabic (ar) غزو العراق		215
4	French (fr) Invasion de l'Irak par les États-Unis en 2003		185
5	Russian (ru) Вторжение США и их союзников в Ирак (2003)		173
6	Polish (pl) II wojna w Zatoce Perskiej		141
7	Portuguese (pt) Invasão do Iraque em 2003		87
8	Simple English (simple) 2003 invasion of Iraq		58
9	Norwegian (no) Invasjonen av Irak i 2003		54
10	Catalan (ca) Invasió de l'Iraq de 2003		53

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) 2003 invasion of Iraq		17
2	Spanish (es) Invasión de Irak de 2003		6
3	Arabic (ar) غزو العراق		5
4	Hebrew (he) הפלישה לעיראק		3
5	Persian (fa) حمله ۲۰۰۳ به عراق		2
6	Simple English (simple) 2003 invasion of Iraq		2
7	Catalan (ca) Invasió de l'Iraq de 2003		1
8	Italian (it) Invasione dell'Iraq del 2003		1
9	Japanese (ja) 2003年イラク攻撃		1
10	Polish (pl) II wojna w Zatoce Perskiej		1

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

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