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]

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	Baghdad	Iraq	7,800,000	6,624,000
5	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	7,700,000	6,506,700
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	Damascus	Syria	3,975,000	2,078,000
12	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	3,950,000	3,751,722
13	Mashhad	Iran	3,475,000	3,372,090
14	Isfahan	Iran	3,425,000	2,000,000
15	Sanaa	Yemen	3,275,000	1,937,451
16	İzmir	Turkey	3,025,000	2,938,292
17	Tel Aviv	Israel	3,000,000	467,875
18	Dammam	Saudi Arabia	2,925,000	1,386,671
19	Mecca	Saudi Arabia	2,675,000	2,042,000
20	Doha	Qatar	2,650,000	1,850,000
21	Gaza City	Palestine	2,275,000	590,481
22	Bursa	Turkey	2,200,000	2,083,698
23	Gaziantep	Turkey	2,193,363	1,835,508
24	Aleppo	Syria	2,098,210	1,980,000
25	Irbid	Jordan	2,050,300	582,276
26	Karaj	Iran	1,973,470	1,973,470
27	Tabriz	Iran	1,970,000	1,773,033
28	Shiraz	Iran	1,950,000	1,869,001
29	Beirut	Lebanon	1,930,000	433,249
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	Manama	Bahrain	1,560,000	727,000
37	Ahvaz	Iran	1,550,000	1,325,000
38	Medina	Saudi Arabia	1,530,000	1,411,599

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