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

References

  1. ^ "Major Agglomerations of the World - Population Statistics and Maps". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  2. ^ "City Populations, Largest Cities of the World - Worldatlas.com". www.worldatlas.com. 9 June 2024.
  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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