The Quran by the numbers
Every count people actually search for, in one place, with the working beside it and a note on where each one comes from. Nothing below was typed in: it is all generated from the same copy of the text the Quran pages here are built from, and the build refuses to publish if the totals disagree.
- Surahs
- 114
- Ayat
- 6,236
- Words
- 77,429
- Juz
- 30
- Pages, Madani mushaf
- 604
- Sajdah ayat
- 15
How many surahs: 114
114, from Al-Fatihah to An-Nas. Of those, 86 are classified as Meccan and 28 as Medinan. That wording is deliberate: the classification comes from a published dataset rather than from us, and several surahs have been discussed in both categories, so this site says "classified as" everywhere it prints the label. The surah index carries the classification on every card.
How many verses: 6,236
6,236 ayat, in the Hafs reading from Asim, which is the reading printed in the Madani mushaf and the one every page of this site uses. That matters more than it sounds: other readings divide a handful of ayat differently, so a verse reference taken from a mushaf printed in another reading can land one number off. When a source quotes a different total, this is almost always why.
The counts are not evenly spread, and the spread is the reason ayat make a poor progress unit. The longest surah carries 286 ayat and the shortest carry 3.
How many pages: it depends on the mushaf
This is the question with the worst answers online, because page count is a property of the printing rather than of the Quran. The same ayah sits on a different page in a different edition. Here are the 5 printed editions this site keeps counts for, each number a fact about that printing:
| Edition | Pages | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Madani, Uthmani | 604 | The King Fahd Complex mushaf. This is the 604 people mean. |
| Madani, tajweed coloured | 604 | The same typesetting with colour added, so the same ayah keeps the same page. |
| Madani, a second tajweed colouring | 604 | A different colour scheme over the same 604-page typesetting. |
| IndoPak | 610 | A different typesetting tradition, so a different page count. |
| Naskh | 612 | Naskh typesetting, longer again by two pages. |
So "604 pages" is correct for the Madani mushaf and wrong as a statement about the Quran. If you are following a reading plan measured in pages, the edition is part of the plan, and two people on "ten pages a day" in different editions are not doing the same reading. We went through the differences in detail in Madani, IndoPak and Naskh compared. The page images themselves are in the Quran Habit app, downloaded per edition; these web pages are text that reflows to your screen, so nothing here has a page number at all.
A page number only means something once you have said which printing it belongs to, which is why the card at the top of this screen reads a page AND a juz, and why the number under it would be different in a different edition. The surah list beside it is the same arithmetic this page is made of, one row at a time: Al-Fatihah 7, Al-Baqarah 286, and so on to 114.
The printed page images belong to the app, where you download the edition you want. This website serves the text itself, which reflows to whatever screen you are holding, so it has no page numbering to disagree with your mushaf about.
How many words: 77,429
77,429 words across the 114 surahs, added up from the same Uthmani text every other number on this page comes from. You will find other totals published, and the disagreement is almost never an error. It is a definition: Arabic joins particles and prepositions onto the word that follows, so whether a joined preposition counts as its own word changes the total by thousands. Ours counts the separated units as the text is written, which means a joined particle travels with its noun.
That is also the honest caveat about every word count you will see, including this one. It is a count of a particular printed text under a particular rule, not a property of the Quran that exists independently of both.
How many juz: 30
30, which is where "one juz a day" comes from as a plan for finishing in a month. Across 604 Madani pages that is about 20.1 pages a juz, although the juz are not equal: a juz boundary is an ayah, and ayat are not evenly sized.
Here is a detail that catches people out, and it is the kind of thing this site would rather print than smooth over. Three pages carry the end of one juz and the beginning of the next: pages 121, 201, 502. Add up the page span of all 30 juz and you get 607, not 604. Both numbers are correct, because those three pages genuinely belong to two juz each. The juz index lists every one with its span, and how the 30 juz divide the Quran goes through where each one starts and why.
The longest surah, and the shortest
Longest: Al-Baqarah, surah 2, at 286 ayat and 6,116 words. It wins on both measures and it is not close: on its own it is about 8 per cent of the words in the Quran.
Shortest: here one measure ties and the other breaks the tie, which is the interesting part. 3 surahs tie for the fewest ayat at 3 each: Al-Asr (14 words), Al-Kawthar (10 words), An-Nasr (19 words). By words there is no tie at all: Al-Kawthar is the shortest surah in the Quran at 10 words, and it is one of the surahs in that tie, so the two measures point at the same surah and only the tie goes away. If you are choosing something short to start with, that distinction is the one that matters, and it is why the memorisation page counts in words rather than in ayat.
Meccan and Medinan: 86 and 28
86 surahs are classified as Meccan and 28 as Medinan in the dataset this site uses. The classification is about the period a surah is placed in rather than a geography quiz, and there are surahs discussed in both categories by classical scholars, which is why nothing here states it as a flat fact. Every surah card carries the label with the same wording.
Sajdah ayat: 15 in 14 surahs
15 ayat of prostration, across 14 surahs. The two numbers differ because Al-Hajj carries two of them. This page counts them and does not rule on them: what is required of a reader at a sajdah ayah is a question for a scholar and not for a website. The surahs that carry one are tagged on the index, and the ayah number is printed on the surah's own page.
Every number on this page is visible in the reading itself rather than only in a table. The counter at the top of a surah says which ayah of how many, the juz is named beside the surah, and the mushaf tab resumes at a page of whichever edition you chose. You can check any figure here against the surah index, against the juz index, or against the app, and if any two of them ever disagree, the data is the thing that is wrong and we would want to know.
Where to go next
- Read the Quran, all 114 surahs with the Arabic, a translation and audio, or go straight to the 30 juz with the page span of each.
- How the 30 juz divide the Quran, which goes through where every one of them starts.
- How long it takes to read the whole Quran, the same kind of arithmetic applied to reading rather than counting.
- How to memorise the Quran, where these counts turn into a daily portion and an honest number of years.
- Twelve checks to run on any Quran app, one of which is whether it can name the mushaf its Arabic comes from.
Questions people ask
How many surahs are in the Quran?
114. In the data this site is built from, 86 are classified as Meccan and 28 as Medinan. The wording stays "classified as" because revelation classification comes from a published dataset and has classically discussed cases.
How many verses are in the Quran?
6,236 ayat, in the Hafs reading printed in the Madani mushaf, which is the reading this site uses throughout. Other readings divide some ayat differently, so a reference can differ by one against a mushaf printed in another reading.
How many pages are in the Quran?
That depends on which mushaf you are holding, and the honest answer is a range rather than a number. 604 in the Madani mushaf, 610 in the IndoPak, 612 in the Naskh. Page count is a typesetting outcome, not a property of the text.
How many juz are in the Quran?
30, which is why a complete reading is commonly paced at one juz a day for a month. Across the 604 pages of the Madani mushaf that is about 20.1 pages a juz.
How many words are in the Quran?
77,429, counted across all 114 surahs of the Uthmani text this site sets its Arabic in. Counts published elsewhere differ, and the reason is always the same: what you treat as one word. Our count is of the separated units in that text, so a joined preposition travels with its noun.
Which surah is the longest?
Al-Baqarah, surah 2, with 286 ayat and 6,116 words. It is the longest by both measures, and by a wide margin: it is roughly 8 per cent of the whole text on its own.
Which surah is the shortest?
It depends on how you measure, and the two measures agree about the winner while disagreeing about whether there is one. 3 surahs share the fewest ayat at 3 each: Al-Asr, Al-Kawthar, An-Nasr. Counted in words there is no tie at all: Al-Kawthar is the shortest surah in the Quran at 10 words, and it is also one of the three in that tie. So ayat tie it and words break the tie.
How many sajdah ayat are in the Quran?
15 ayat of prostration, spread over 14 surahs. The two numbers differ because Al-Hajj carries two. Every surah page on this site tags the surahs that carry one and prints the ayah number.
Do the 30 juz divide the mushaf into 30 equal parts?
Not exactly. A juz boundary is an ayah, not a page, so three pages carry the end of one juz and the start of the next: pages 121, 201, 502. Add up the 30 page spans and you get 607, while the mushaf is still 604 pages. Both numbers are right.
Where do these numbers come from?
They are generated from this site's own copy of the Uthmani text at build time, never typed by hand, and the build fails if the 114 surahs do not add up to 6,236 ayat. The page counts are a different kind of fact: they belong to the 5 printed mushaf editions in the table above, they are properties of those printings rather than of the text, and they are recorded in the same fact sheet the Quran Habit app is measured against.
Where these numbers come from, and what we do not claim
The ayah counts, word counts, revelation classification and sajdah tags are generated from this site's own snapshot of the Uthmani text, last generated on 2026-09-05, and a separate script re-derives them by an independent path on every build. The build refuses to publish if the 114 surahs do not add up to 6,236 ayat. The page counts are a fact about the 5 printed mushaf editions above and not about this website, which serves reflowing text and has no page numbering of its own.
We do not claim these are the only defensible counts, and on the word total we have said plainly why more than one number is defensible. Nor do we claim to be the best place to read the Quran; we have not ranked anything on this page and would rather you checked ours against whatever you already trust. Everything here is open to that check, which is the point of showing the working.
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