List of largest cities in the Arab world
This is a list of largest cities in the Arab world. The Arab world is here defined as the 22 member states of the Arab League.[1]
Largest cities
Largest cities in the Arab world by official cities proper:[2]
Rank | Country | City | Population | Founding date | Image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Egypt | Cairo | 16,225,000 | 968 AD[3] | |
2 | Iraq | Baghdad | 6,960,000 | 762 AD[4] | |
3 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | 6,030,000 | 1746 AD[5] | |
4 | Sudan | Khartoum | 5,345,000 | 1824 AD[6] | |
5 | Jordan | Amman | 4,995,000 | 7250 BC[7][8] | |
6 | Egypt | Alexandria | 4,870,000 | 332 BC[9] | |
7 | Kuwait | Kuwait City | 4,660,000 | 1613 AD[10] | |
8 | Morocco | Casablanca | 4,370,000 | 7th century BC[11] | |
9 | Saudi Arabia | Jeddah | 3,875,000 | 522 BC[12] | |
10 | United Arab Emirates | Dubai | 3,805,000 | 1833 AD[13] | |
11 | Algeria | Algiers | 3,730,000 | 944 AD[14] | |
12 | Yemen | Sana'a | 3,270,000 | ~500 BC (possibly earlier)[15] | |
13 | Syria | Damascus | 2,645,000 | 6,300 BC (possibly earlier)[16] | |
14 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 2,425,000 | 950 AD[17] | |
15 | Tunisia | Tunis | 2,260,000 | 814 BC[18] | |
16 | Morocco | Rabat | 2,065,000 | 1150 AD[19] | |
17 | United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi | 1,765,000 | 1761 AD[20] | |
18 | Saudi Arabia | Mecca | 1,720,000 | 1812 BC[21][22] | |
19 | Qatar | Doha | 1,685,000 | 1823 AD[23] | |
20 | Syria | Homs | 1,640,000 | ~2300 BC[24] |
References
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- ↑ "Egypt – Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme". Archived from the original on 21 August 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ↑ Corzine, Phyllis (2005). The Islamic Empire. Thomson Gale. pp. 68–69.
- ↑ Saud Al-Oteibi; Allen G. Noble; Frank J. Costa (February 1993). "The Impact of Planning on Growth and Development in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1970-1990". GeoJournal. 29.
- ↑ Abdel Salam Sidahmed; Alsir Sidahmed (2004). "Chronology". Sudan. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-47947-4.
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- ↑ "The Old Testament Kingdoms of Jordan". kinghussein.gov.jo. kinghussein.gov.jo. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
- ↑ Reimer, Michael (2016). "Alexandria". Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ↑ Al-Jassar, Mohammad Khalid A. (May 2009). Constancy and Change in Contemporary Kuwait City: The Socio-cultural Dimensions of the Kuwait Courtyard and Diwaniyya (PhD thesis). The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-109-22934-9.
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Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Algiers". Encyclopædia Britannica. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 653&ndash, 655. - ↑
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sana". Encyclopædia Britannica. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 125&ndash, 126. - ↑ Moore, A.M.T. The Neolithic of the Levant. Oxford, UK: Oxford University, 1978. 192–198. Print.
- ↑ Aguiar, Marian (2010). "Mogadishu, Somalia". In Anthony Appiah, Kwame. The Encyclopedia of Africa. Oxford.
- ↑ Serge Lancel (1995). Carthage. Translated by Antonia Nevill. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 20–23.
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- ↑ Malcolm C. Peck (2007). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6416-0.
- ↑ Ziauddin Sardar (2014). "Chronology". Mecca: The Sacred City. Bloomsbury. p. 365. ISBN 978-1-62040-266-5.
- ↑ "مكة المكرمة". الجزيرة. 6 November 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ↑ "Historical references to Doha and Bidda before 1850" (PDF). The Origins of Doha Project. p. 4. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
- ↑ Dumper, Michael; Stanley, Bruce E.; Abu-Lughod, Janet L. (2007). Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-57607-919-8.
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