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	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	Dammam	Saudi Arabia	2,742,800	1,386,671
19	Doha	Qatar	2,382,000	1,850,000
20	Kuwait City	Kuwait	2,380,000	2,380,000
21	Adana	Turkey	2,274,000	2,000,000
22	Sanaa	Yemen	2,167,000	1,937,451
23	Aleppo	Syria	2,098,210	2,098,210
24	Irbid	Jordan	2,050,300	582,276
25	Gaza City	Palestine	2,047,969	590,481
26	Mecca	Saudi Arabia	2,042,000	2,042,000
27	Karaj	Iran	1,973,470	1,973,470
28	Shiraz	Iran	1,869,001	1,869,001
29	Gaziantep	Turkey	1,775,904	1,775,904
30	Tabriz	Iran	1,773,033	1,773,033
31	Erbil	Iraq	1,750,564	1,750,564
32	Muscat	Oman	1,560,000	1,560,000
33	Najaf	Iraq	1,500,000	1,389,500

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