List of 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 10,500,000 8,126,755
5 Riyadh  Saudi Arabia 6,506,700 6,506,700
6 Ankara  Turkey 5,663,322 5,067,565
7 Dubai  United Arab Emirates 5,640,000 3,287,007
8 Sharjah  United Arab Emirates 5,640,000 1,405,000
9 Ajman  United Arab Emirates 5,640,000 490,035
10 Alexandria  Egypt 4,984,387 4,984,387
11 Amman  Jordan 4,642,000 4,061,150
12 İzmir  Turkey 4,394,694 5,067,565
13 Jeddah  Saudi Arabia 4,276,000 4,276,000
14 Tel Aviv  Israel 3,954,500 438,818
15 Mosul  Iraq 3,750,000 1,683,000
16 Mashhad  Iran 3,600,650 3,372,090
17 Isfahan  Iran 2,989,070 2,000,000
18 Damascus  Syria 2,900,000 2,078,000
19 Abu Dhabi  United Arab Emirates 2,784,490 2,784,490
20 Basra  Iraq 2,750,000 2,750,000
21 Tabriz  Iran 2,500,123 2,000,000
22 Doha  Qatar 2,382,000 1,850,000
23 Kuwait City  Kuwait 2,380,000 2,380,000
24 Beirut  Lebanon 2,200,000 361,366
25 Sana'a  Yemen 2,167,000 1,937,451
26 Irbid  Jordan 2,050,300 582,276
27 Gaza  Palestine 2,047,969 590,481
28 Mecca  Saudi Arabia 2,042,000 2,042,000
29 Karaj  Iran 1,967,000 1,967,000
30 Shiraz  Iran 1,869,001 1,869,001
31 Gaza  Palestine 1,850,000 515,556
32 Aleppo  Syria 1,800,000 1,800,000
33 Erbil  Iraq 1,750,564 1,750,564
34 Muscat  Oman 1,560,000 1,560,000
35 Najaf  Iraq 1,500,000 1,389,500

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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