Largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East
This is a list of the largest metropolitan areas in the Middle East, composed of the 30 largest metropolitan areas in 2014 according to "CityPopulation Studies".[1]
| Metropolitan area name | Country | Population[1] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cairo |  Egypt | 16,300,000 |
| 2 | Istanbul |  Turkey | 13,900,000 |
| 3 | Tehran |  Iran | 13,300,000 |
| 4 | Baghdad |  Iraq | 6,550,000 |
| 5 | Riyadh |  Saudi Arabia | 6,300,000 |
| 6 | Alexandria | Egypt | 4,950,000 |
| 7 | Ankara | Turkey | 4,500,000 |
| 8 | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | 4,025,000 |
| 9 | Kuwait City |  Kuwait | 3,925,000 |
| 10 | Damascus |  Syria | 3,550,000 |
| 11 | Tel Aviv-Jaffa |  Israel | 3,464,100 |
| 12 | Amman |  Jordan | 3,250,000 |
| 13 | Aleppo | Syria | 2,975,000 |
| 14 | Mashhad | Iran | 2,950,000 |
| 15 | Izmir | Turkey | 2,900,000 |
| 16 | Isfahan | Iran | 2,675,000 |
| 17 | Sanaa |  Yemen | 2,350,000 |
| 18 | Dammam | Saudi Arabia | 2,275,000 |
| 19 | Dubai |  United Arab Emirates | 2,250,000 |
| 20 | Bursa | Turkey | 1,890,000 |
| 21 | Mecca | Saudi Arabia | 1,780,000 |
| 22 | Gaza |  Palestine | 1,690,000 |
| 23 | Adana | Turkey | 1,650,000 |
| 24 | Mosul | Iraq | 1,620,000 |
| 24 | Shiraz | Iran | 1,620,000 |
| 26 | Tabriz | Iran | 1,580,000 |
| 27 | Gaziantep | Turkey | 1,480,000 |
| 28 | Basra | Iraq | 1,330,000 |
| 28 | Beirut |  Lebanon | 1,330,000 |
| 30 | Medina | Saudi Arabia | 1,270,000 |
References
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