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]
Rank | City | Country | Metropolitan Population |
City population |
Image |
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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 | 8,500,000 | 6,720,500 | |
5 | Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | 6,506,700 | 6,506,700 | |
6 | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | 5,640,000 | 3,287,007 | |
7 | Alexandria | Egypt | 4,984,387 | 4,984,387 | |
8 | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | 4,276,000 | 4,276,000 | |
9 | Amman | Jordan | 4,007,526 | 4,007,526 | |
10 | Mashhad | Iran | 3,600,650 | 3,372,090 | |
11 | Isfahan | Iran | 2,989,070 | 2,000,000 | |
12 | Tel Aviv | Israel | 3,954,500 | 438,818 | |
13 | Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates | 2,784,490 | 2,784,490 | |
14 | Basra | Iraq | 2,750,000 | 2,750,000 | |
15 | Tabriz | Iran | 2,500,123 | 2,000,000 | |
16 | Doha | Qatar | 2,382,000 | 1,850,000 | |
17 | Kuwait City | Kuwait | 2,380,000 | 2,380,000 | |
18 | Beirut | Lebanon | 2,200,000 | 361,366 | |
19 | Sana'a | Yemen | 2,167,000 | 1,937,451 | |
20 | Karaj | Iran | 1,967,000 | 1,967,000 | |
21 | Shiraz | Iran | 1,869,001 | 1,869,001 | |
22 | Gaza | Palestine | 1,850,000 | 515,556 | |
23 | Aleppo | Syria | 1,800,000 | 1,800,000 | |
24 | Erbil | Iraq | 1,750,564 | 1,750,564 | |
25 | Damascus | Syria | 1,711,000 | 1,711,000 | |
26 | Mecca | Saudi Arabia | 2,042,000 | 2,042,000 | |
27 | Muscat | Oman | 1,560,000 | 1,560,000 |
References
- "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.
- "City Populations, Largest Cities of the World - Worldatlas.com". www.worldatlas.com.
- "y: 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
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