How Many Pages Are in the Quran? Pages, Surahs, Verses and Words, Counted

The Quran has 604 pages in the standard Madinah print, with 15 lines on each page. It holds 114 surahs, 6,236 verses and 30 juz of about 20 pages each. Copies printed in the IndoPak script run longer or shorter, from 548 pages in the 16-line layout to around 850 in the 13-line one, but the text inside every copy is the same.

Those are the headline numbers. Below is every other number people ask about, from words and letters to how long a full recitation takes. We counted each of them ourselves, from the text itself rather than from other websites.

The Quran in numbers

The whole structure fits on one table. The pages are the Madinah print, the one most mosques and Quran classes use.

The juz, hizb and quarter are equal portions for reading, so they ignore where a surah starts or ends. The surah and the verse are the Quran’s own divisions. The ruku marks a passage on one theme, and the manzil splits the Quran into seven so it can be read through in a week.

How many pages are in the Quran in other prints?

It depends on the layout, not the text. Every copy has the same 6,236 verses. What changes is the script, the size of the letters and the number of lines on a page.

Madinah and IndoPak 15- and 16-line counts: Quran Foundation page layouts. 13-line counts are from publishers’ listings and vary by edition.

The Madinah print has a detail that matters if your child is memorising: every page starts with a new verse and ends with a complete one. A child learns a page as a unit and can find it again by its position. That is why most hifz teachers ask for this layout, or the 15-line IndoPak hafiz copy, which is built the same way.

If you grew up with an IndoPak copy and your child’s teacher uses the Madinah one, the page numbers will not match. Juz numbers and surah numbers do. Use those when you talk to the teacher.

An English translation has no fixed page count. It depends on the translator, the notes and whether the Arabic is printed beside the English.

How many surahs are in the Quran?

There are 114 surahs. 86 were revealed in Makkah and 28 in Madinah, by the classification Quran.com uses. The order in the book is not the order of revelation: the first verses revealed are at the start of surah 96, Al-Alaq.

The longest surah is Al-Baqarah, surah 2, with 286 verses over 48 pages, pages 2 to 49. The shortest is Al-Kawthar, surah 108: three verses and ten words. Al-Asr and An-Nasr also have three verses, but more words.

Every surah but one opens with Bismillah. At-Tawbah, surah 9, has none. An-Naml, surah 27, has it twice: once at the start and once inside verse 30, in Sulayman’s letter to the Queen of Sheba.

How many verses (ayat) are in the Quran?

There are 6,236 verses by the count of Kufa, which goes with the Hafs reading and is the one printed in most copies today. Count the Bismillah at the start of each surah as a verse of its own and the total becomes 6,348.

Early scholars in Madinah, Makkah, Basra and Damascus arrived at slightly lower totals, all a little over 6,200. They were not working from a different Quran. They divided some verses at different points, so the same words fall into slightly more or fewer verses.

You may have been told the Quran has 6,666 verses. No counting tradition gives that number. It circulates widely, but it is not in any count.

The longest verse is Al-Baqarah 2:282, the verse on writing down a debt, at 129 words. It fills most of a page on its own. The shortest verses are single words or letter groups, like the first verse of Ta Ha. There are 28 verses that are one word long.

How many words and letters are in the Quran?

There are 77,429 words, counted the way Quran.com divides the text word by word. That matches the figure scholars have given for centuries, about 77,430. A plain count of the spaces in the same text gives 77,797, because it splits off some short joined words. Neither count is wrong. They measure slightly different things.

The letters are harder to pin down. Counting every Arabic letter in the plain spelling gives 330,709. Older counts land between about 320,000 and 330,000. They differ mainly over the long vowel alif, which the Quran’s own spelling often leaves out.

These numbers help in one practical way. A small set of words carries a large share of the Quran. In our count, the 100 most common word forms make up about 38 percent of all the words, which is why our Quranic Arabic course starts with them.

How many juz are in the Quran, and how long is each one?

There are 30 juz, also called para or sipara. In the Madinah print each one is about 20 pages. The first runs to 21 pages, and the last, Juz Amma, to 23. Each juz holds roughly the same amount of text, so the number of verses in it swings widely: Juz 6 has 110 long verses, while Juz Amma has 564 short ones.

By words, the longest juz is Juz 7, at 2,788 words. The shortest is Juz Amma, at 2,314. The gap is about 20 percent, small enough that a juz a day still works as a plan.

How long does it take to read the whole Quran?

A fluent reader going at a steady pace takes 30 to 45 minutes a juz, which is 15 to 23 hours for the whole Quran. A slow, careful recitation by a trained reciter takes longer. These four well-known recordings run as follows, every surah added together:

A learner who is still sounding out words will take far longer, and that is fine. If you are planning a khatm for Ramadan or for the year, our Quran reading plan splits the 604 pages into days, with the verse each day starts on.

Every surah: verses, words and pages

The full list, in the order of the book. Pages are where each surah starts and ends in the Madinah print.

Download the free Quran numbers PDF: the facts on one page, then all 114 surahs with their verses and pages and a box to tick as your child learns or reads each one. No email address needed.

What these numbers mean when nobody at home reads Arabic

If you cannot read the Quran yourself, 604 pages can feel like a wall your child has to climb alone. It helps to look at where children start. Juz Amma, the last juz, is 23 pages and holds 37 of the 114 surahs. Most of them are short, and that is where nearly every child begins memorising. Our list of short surahs to memorize has the easiest of them with audio for each verse, so your child can hear them read correctly even if you cannot read along.

For memorising the whole Quran, the page is the unit teachers plan in. A child who learns one page a day, five days a week, covers the 604 pages in under two and a half years, with revision on top. Our guide to how long it takes to memorize the Quran sets out the usual paces. When you want a teacher to hear your child read and correct them, our online Quran classes for kids are one to one, with tutors used to families where the parents are learning too.

Questions people ask about the Quran’s numbers

How many pages are in one juz of the Quran?

About 20 pages in the standard Madinah print, which has 604 pages in 30 juz. The first juz is 21 pages and the last, Juz Amma, is 23. In a 13-line IndoPak copy a juz is closer to 28 pages.

How many pages are in the 13-line Quran?

Usually between about 848 and 885 pages, depending on the publisher. The 13-line layout is common in South Asia and South Africa and uses larger letters than the 15-line Madinah print, which has 604 pages.

Which surah does not start with Bismillah?

At-Tawbah, surah 9, is the only surah with no Bismillah at the start. An-Naml, surah 27, contains it twice, so the phrase still appears 114 times in the Quran.

What is the longest surah in the Quran?

Al-Baqarah, surah 2, with 286 verses over 48 pages of the Madinah print. It also contains the longest verse, Al-Baqarah 2:282.

What is the shortest surah in the Quran?

Al-Kawthar, surah 108, with three verses and ten words. Al-Asr and An-Nasr also have three verses, but more words.

How many sajdahs are in the Quran?

Quran.com marks 14 verses of prostration. Many printed copies mark 15, adding a second one in surah Al-Hajj at verse 77, which the Shafi’i and Hanbali schools count.

What is the only woman named in the Quran?

Maryam, the mother of Isa. Her name appears 34 times, and surah 19 is named after her. Other women in the Quran, such as the wife of Pharaoh, are described but not named.

Does the Quran have 6,666 verses?

No. The Kufan count, the one in most printed copies, is 6,236, and the other early counts are slightly lower. The figure 6,666 does not come from any of them.