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 9,028,636
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

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