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 CityCountry 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 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

See also

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. "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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