List of largest metropolitan areas in the Middle East
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.[1][2][3]
List
| Rank | City | Country | Metropolitan population |
City population |
Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cairo | Egypt | 22,800,000 | 9,500,000 | |
| 2 | Tehran | Iran | 16,800,000 | 9,134,000 | |
| 3 | Istanbul | Turkey | 16,000,000 | 15,241,177 | |
| 4 | Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | 10,500,000 | 6,506,700 | |
| 5 | Baghdad | Iraq | 8,141,000 | 7,921,134 | |
| 6 | Alexandria | Egypt | 6,250,000 | 4,984,387 | |
| 7 | Amman | Jordan | 6,150,000 | 4,061,150 | |
| 8 | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | 6,050,000 | 3,287,007 | |
| 9 | Ankara | Turkey | 5,200,000 | 5,067,565 | |
| 10 | Kuwait City | Kuwait | 4,985,716 | 2,380,000 | |
| 11 | İzmir | Turkey | 4,493,242 | 3,025,000 | |
| 12 | Damascus | Syria | 3,975,000 | 2,078,000 | |
| 13 | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | 3,950,000 | 3,751,722 | |
| 14 | Beirut | Lebanon | 3,500,000 | 1,930,000 | |
| 15 | Mashhad | Iran | 3,475,000 | 3,372,090 | |
| 16 | Isfahan | Iran | 3,425,000 | 2,000,000 | |
| 17 | Sanaa | Yemen | 3,275,000 | 1,937,451 | |
| 18 | Bursa | Turkey | 3,238,618 | 2,283,697 | |
| 19 | Tel Aviv | Israel | 3,000,000 | 467,875 | |
| 20 | Dammam | Saudi Arabia | 2,925,000 | 1,386,671 | |
| 21 | Mecca | Saudi Arabia | 2,675,000 | 2,042,000 | |
| 22 | Doha | Qatar | 2,650,000 | 1,850,000 | |
| 23 | Gaziantep | Turkey | 2,193,363 | 1,835,508 | |
| 24 | Gaza City | Palestine | 2,141,643 | 590,481 | |
| 25 | Aleppo | Syria | 2,098,210 | 1,980,000 | |
| 26 | Irbid | Jordan | 2,050,300 | 582,276 | |
| 27 | Karaj | Iran | 1,973,470 | 1,973,470 | |
| 28 | Tabriz | Iran | 1,970,000 | 1,773,033 | |
| 29 | Shiraz | Iran | 1,950,000 | 1,869,001 | |
| 30 | Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates | 1,850,000 | 1,570,000 | |
| 31 | Adana | Turkey | 1,816,750 | 1,780,000 | |
| 32 | Mosul | Iraq | 1,792,000 | 1,683,000 | |
| 33 | Erbil | Iraq | 1,750,564 | 1,750,564 | |
| 34 | Basra | Iraq | 1,710,000 | 1,485,000 | |
| 35 | Muscat | Oman | 1,620,000 | 1,560,000 | |
| 36 | Ahvaz | Iran | 1,550,000 | 1,325,000 | |
| 37 | Medina | Saudi Arabia | 1,530,000 | 1,411,599 | |
| 38 | 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
- ^ "Major Agglomerations of the World - Population Statistics and Maps". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ^ "City Populations, Largest Cities of the World - Worldatlas.com". www.worldatlas.com. 9 June 2024.
- ^ "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