List of largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East

This is a list of metropolitan areas in Middle East, with their population according to different sources. The list includes metropolitan areas that have a population of over 1.5 million.^[1][2][3]

List

Rank	City	Country	Metropolitan Population	City Population	Image
1	Cairo	Egypt	20,439,541	9,500,000
2	Tehran	Iran	16,672,000	9,134,000
3	Istanbul	Turkey	15,519,267	15,241,177
4	Baghdad	Iraq	10,500,000	8,126,755
5	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	6,506,700	6,506,700
6	Ankara	Turkey	5,663,322	5,067,565
7	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	5,640,000	3,287,007
8	Alexandria	Egypt	4,984,387	4,984,387
9	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	4,697,000	4,697,000
10	Amman	Jordan	4,642,000	4,061,150
11	İzmir	Turkey	4,394,694	4,367,251
12	Tel Aviv	Israel	3,954,500	438,818
13	Mosul	Iraq	3,750,000	1,683,000
14	Mashhad	Iran	3,600,650	3,372,090
15	Isfahan	Iran	2,989,070	2,000,000
16	Damascus	Syria	2,900,000	2,078,000
17	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	2,784,490	2,784,490
18	Basra	Iraq	2,750,000	2,750,000
19	Tabriz	Iran	2,500,123	2,000,000
20	Doha	Qatar	2,382,000	1,850,000
21	Kuwait City	Kuwait	2,380,000	2,380,000
22	Beirut	Lebanon	2,200,000	361,366
23	Sanaa	Yemen	2,167,000	1,937,451
24	Aleppo	Syria	2,098,210	2,098,210
25	Irbid	Jordan	2,050,300	582,276
26	Gaza City	Palestine	2,047,969	590,481
27	Mecca	Saudi Arabia	2,042,000	2,042,000
28	Karaj	Iran	1,967,000	1,967,000
29	Shiraz	Iran	1,869,001	1,869,001
30	Erbil	Iraq	1,750,564	1,750,564
31	Muscat	Oman	1,560,000	1,560,000
32	Najaf	Iraq	1,500,000	1,389,500

See also

• List of cities of the ancient Near East
• List of largest cities in the Arab world
• List of largest cities in the Levant region by population
• List of Middle Eastern countries by population

References

1. "All urban agglomerations of the world with a population of 1 million inhabitants or more". www.citypopulation.de. Citypopulation. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
2. "City Populations, Largest Cities of the World - Worldatlas.com". www.worldatlas.com.
3. "Turkey: Provinces and Major Cities". www.citytpopulation.de. Citypopulation. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2015. The population of the Turkish cities and provinces according to census results and latest register-based tabulations

External links

• Where are the largest cities in the Middle East?. City Monitor