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 15,232,564 8,846,682
3 Istanbul  Turkey 14,657,434 14,100,000
4 Baghdad  Iraq 8,768,000 8,765,000
5 Riyadh  Saudi Arabia 6,506,700 6,506,700
6 Ankara  Turkey 5,270,575 5,270,575
7 Alexandria  Egypt 4,984,387 4,984,387
8 Jeddah  Saudi Arabia 4,276,000 4,276,000
9 Izmir  Turkey 4,113,072 2,847,691
10 Amman  Jordan 4,007,526 4,007,526
11 Isfahan  Iran 3,989,070 1,961,260
12 Tel Aviv  Israel 3,954,500 438,818
13 Mashhad  Iran 3,372,660 3,312,090
14 Bursa  Turkey 2,842,000 2,340,000
15 Abu Dhabi  United Arab Emirates 2,784,490 2,784,490
16 Dubai  United Arab Emirates 2,752,736 2,752,736
17 Basra  Iraq 2,750,000 2,750,000
18 Kuwait City  Kuwait 2,380,000 2,380,000
19 Beirut  Lebanon 2,200,000 361,366
20 Sana'a  Yemen 2,167,000 1,937,451
21 Karaj  Iran 1,967,000 1,967,000
22 Shiraz  Iran 1,869,001 1,869,001
23 Gaza  Gaza Strip 1,850,000 515,556
24 Aleppo  Syria 1,800,000 1,800,000
25 Tabriz  Iran 1,773,023 1,773,023
26 Erbil  Iraq 1,750,564 1,750,564
27 Adana  Turkey 1,736,564 1,736,564
28 Damascus  Syria 1,711,000 1,711,000
29 Mecca  Saudi Arabia 1,675,368 1,675,368
30 Muscat  Oman 1,560,000 1,560,000
31 Gaziantep  Turkey 1,556,381 1,556,381

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
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