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	10,500,000
2	Tehran	Iran	16,800,000	14,557,000
3	Istanbul	Turkey	16,000,000	15,701,602
4	Baghdad	Iraq	7,800,000	7,220,000
5	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	7,700,000	7,009,100
6	Alexandria	Egypt	6,250,000	6,100,000
7	Amman	Jordan	6,150,000	4,920,100
8	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	6,050,000	4,945,000
9	Ankara	Turkey	5,200,000	4,965,542
10	Kuwait City	Kuwait	5,050,000	5,026,078
11	Damascus	Syria	3,975,000	2,799,960
12	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	3,950,000	3,751,722
13	Mashhad	Iran	3,475,000	3,461,000
14	Isfahan	Iran	3,425,000	2,238,000
15	Sanaa	Yemen	3,275,000	2,545,000
16	İzmir	Turkey	3,025,000	2,938,292
17	Tel Aviv	Israel	3,000,000	1,388,400
18	Dammam	Saudi Arabia	2,925,000	2,743,318
19	Mecca	Saudi Arabia	2,675,000	2,427,924
20	Doha	Qatar	2,650,000	1,186,023
21	Gaza City	Palestine	2,275,000	590,481
22	Bursa	Turkey	2,200,000	1,854,285
23	Aleppo	Syria	1,980,000	1,800,000
24	Tabriz	Iran	1,970,000	1,773,023
25	Shiraz	Iran	1,950,000	1,800,000
26	Beirut	Lebanon	1,930,000	433,249
27	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	1,850,000	1,807,000
28	Gaziantep	Turkey	1,800,000	1,750,000
29	Mosul	Iraq	1,792,000	1,550,000
30	Adana	Turkey	1,780,000	1,768,860
31	Basra	Iraq	1,710,000	1,485,000
32	Muscat	Oman	1,620,000	630,000
33	Manama	Bahrain	1,560,000	743,066
34	Ahvaz	Iran	1,550,000	1,325,000
35	Medina	Saudi Arabia	1,530,000	1,477,047

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