This is a list of metropolitan areas in the Middle East, with their population according to different sources. The list includes metropolitan areas that have a population of over 1.5 million.
List
| Rank | City | Country | Metropolitan Population |
City Population |
Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cairo |  Egypt
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20,439,541 | 9,500,000 | .jpg)
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| 2 | Tehran |  Iran
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17,672,000 | 9,134,000 | 
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| 3 | Istanbul |  Turkey
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15,519,267 | 15,241,177 | 
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| 4 | Baghdad |  Iraq
|
10,500,000 | 8,126,755 | 
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| 5 | Riyadh |  Saudi Arabia
|
10,500,000 | 6,506,700 | 
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| 6 | Ankara | Turkey
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5,663,322 | 5,067,565 | 
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| 7 | Dubai |  United Arab Emirates
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5,640,000 | 3,287,007 | .jpg)
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| 8 | Alexandria | Egypt
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4,984,387 | 4,984,387 | 
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| 9 | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia
|
4,697,000 | 4,697,000 | 
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| 10 | Amman |  Jordan
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4,642,000 | 4,061,150 | 
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| 11 | İzmir | Turkey
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4,394,694 | 4,367,251 | 
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| 12 | Tel Aviv |  Israel
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4,156,900 | 467,875 | .jpg)
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| 13 | Mosul | Iraq
|
3,750,000 | 1,683,000 | 
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| 14 | Mashhad | Iran
|
3,600,650 | 3,372,090 | 
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| 15 | Isfahan | Iran
|
2,989,070 | 2,000,000 | 
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| 16 | Damascus |  Syria
|
2,900,000 | 2,078,000 | 
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| 17 | Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates
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3,789,860 | 2,495,925 | _-_panoramio_(1).jpg)
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| 18 | Dammam | Saudi Arabia
|
2,742,800 | 1,386,671 | 
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| 19 | Doha |  Qatar
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2,382,000 | 1,850,000 | 
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| 20 | Kuwait City |  Kuwait
|
2,380,000 | 2,380,000 | 
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| 21 | Adana | Turkey
|
2,274,000 | 2,000,000 | 
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| 22 | Sanaa |  Yemen
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2,167,000 | 1,937,451 | .jpg)
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| 23 | Aleppo | Syria
|
2,098,210 | 2,098,210 | 
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| 24 | Irbid | Jordan
|
2,050,300 | 582,276 | 
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| 25 | Gaza City |  Palestine
|
2,047,969 | 590,481 | 
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| 26 | Mecca | Saudi Arabia
|
2,042,000 | 2,042,000 | 
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| 27 | Karaj | Iran
|
1,973,470 | 1,973,470 | 
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| 28 | Shiraz | Iran
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1,869,001 | 1,869,001 | 
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| 29 | Gaziantep | Turkey
|
1,775,904 | 1,775,904 | 
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| 30 | Tabriz | Iran
|
1,773,033 | 1,773,033 | 
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| 31 | Erbil | Iraq
|
1,750,564 | 1,750,564 | 
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| 32 | Muscat |  Oman
|
1,560,000 | 1,560,000 | 
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| 33 | 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
- "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.
- "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
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