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List of largest metropolitan areas in the Middle East

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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

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Rank City Country Metropolitan
Population
City
Population
Image
1 Cairo  Egypt 20,439,541 9,500,000
2 Tehran  Iran 17,672,000 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 10,500,000 6,506,700
6 Ankara  Turkey 5,663,322 5,067,565
7 Dubai  United Arab Emirates 5,640,000 3,287,007
8 Alexandria  Egypt 4,984,387 4,984,387
9 Jeddah  Saudi Arabia 4,697,000 4,697,000
10 Amman  Jordan 4,642,000 4,061,150
11 İzmir  Turkey 4,394,694 4,367,251
12 Tel Aviv  Israel 4,156,900 467,875
13 Mosul  Iraq 3,750,000 1,683,000
14 Mashhad  Iran 3,600,650 3,372,090
15 Isfahan  Iran 2,989,070 2,000,000
16 Damascus  Syria 2,900,000 2,078,000
17 Abu Dhabi  United Arab Emirates 3,789,860 2,495,925
18 Doha  Qatar 2,382,000 1,850,000
19 Kuwait City  Kuwait 2,380,000 2,380,000
20 Adana  Turkey 2,274,000 2,000,000
21 Sanaa  Yemen 2,167,000 1,937,451
22 Aleppo  Syria 2,098,210 2,098,210
23 Irbid  Jordan 2,050,300 582,276
24 Gaza City  Palestine 2,047,969 590,481
25 Mecca  Saudi Arabia 2,042,000 2,042,000
26 Karaj  Iran 1,973,470 1,973,470
27 Shiraz  Iran 1,869,001 1,869,001
28 Tabriz  Iran 1,773,033 1,773,033
29 Erbil  Iraq 1,750,564 1,750,564
30 Muscat  Oman 1,560,000 1,560,000
31 Najaf  Iraq 1,500,000 1,389,500

See also

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References

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  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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