List of largest cities in the Arab world

This is a list of largest cities in the Arab world. The Arab world is here defined as the 22 member states of the Arab League.[1]

Largest cities

Largest cities in the Arab world by population:[2][3]

Rank Country City Population Founding date Image
1 Egypt Cairo 22,800,000 968 CE[4]
2 Iraq Baghdad 7,800,000 762 CE[5]
3 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 7,700,000 1746 CE[6]
4 Sudan Khartoum 7,200,000 1824 CE[7]
5 Jordan Amman 5,947,964 7250 BCE[8][9]
6 Egypt Alexandria 5,850,000 332 BCE[10]
7 Kuwait Kuwait City 4,800,000 1613 CE[11]
8 Morocco Casablanca 4,450,000 7th century[12]
9 Algeria Algiers 4,325,000 944 CE[13]
10 United Arab Emirates Dubai 4,065,000 1833 CE[14]
11 Saudi Arabia Jeddah 4,032,000 522 BCE[15]
12

Syria

Damascus 3,475,000 ~8,000–10,000 BCE[16]
13 Yemen Sanaa 3,275,000 ~500 BCE (possibly earlier)[17]
14 Saudi Arabia Dammam 2,854,000 1923
15 Tunisia Tunis 2,725,000 814 BCE[18]
16 Qatar Doha 2,650,000 1823 CE[19]
17 Saudi Arabia Mecca 2,532,000 2nd century CE[20]
18 Palestine Gaza City 2,265,000 15th century BC
19 Somalia Mogadishu 2,250,000 10th Century[21]
20 Morocco Rabat 2,125,000 10th century[22]
21 Syria Aleppo 2,098,210 ~5,000 BCE[23]
22 Lebanon Beirut 1,930,000 ~3000 BCE (outer estimate)[24]
23 Libya Tripoli 1,870,000 7th century BC
24 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 1,850,000 1761 CE[25]
25 Iraq Basra 1,710,000 636 AD
26 Algeria Oran 1,640,000 AD 944
27 Oman Muscat 1,590,000 550 BCE
28 Bahrain Manama 1,560,000 1345 or earlier
29 Iraq Mosul 1,550,000 ~700 BCE
30 Saudi Arabia Medina 1,538,000 9th century BC
31 Mauritania Nouakchott 1,500,000 1903[26]
32 Morocco Tangier 1,410,000 10th century BCE[27][28]
33 Somalia Hargeisa 1,401,000 1860[29][30][31]
34 Morocco Fez 1,310,000 789
35 Yemen Taiz 1,276,000 first half of the 12th century CE[32]
36 Morocco Agadir 1,270,000 12th century
37 Iraq Erbil 1,220,000 ~2300 BCE
38 Iraq Kirkuk 1,160,000 2335 BC[33]
39 Jordan Irbid 1,070,000 ~3,200 BCE (possibly earlier)
40 United Arab Emirates Al Ain 1,060,000 985 CE[34]
41 Iraq Najaf 1,050,000 791 AD[35]
42 Yemen Aden 1,021,000 8th century BC[36]
43 Egypt Mansoura 993,000 1219

See also

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