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 official cities proper: ^[2]

Rank	Country	City	Population	Founding date	Image
1	Egypt	Cairo	22,679,000	968 CE [3]
2	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	8,309,000	1746 CE [4]
3	Sudan	Khartoum	7,155,000	1824 CE [5]
4	Iraq	Baghdad	6,624,000	762 CE [6]
5	Jordan	Amman	6,563,000	7250 BCE [7] [8]
6	Egypt	Alexandria	5,552,000	332 BCE [9]
7	Saudi Arabia	Jeddah	5,408,000	522 BCE [10]
8	United Arab Emirates	Dubai	4,945,000	1833 CE [11]
9	Morocco	Casablanca	4,499,000	7th century [12]
10	Somalia	Mogadishu	4,219,000	10th Century [13]
11	Kuwait	Kuwait City	4,066,000	1613 CE [14]
12	Yemen	Sana'a	3,585,000	~500 BCE (possibly earlier) [15]
13	Algeria	Algiers	3,462,000	944 CE [16]
14	Syria	Damascus	3,155,000	~8,000–10,000 BCE [17]
15	Saudi Arabia	Dammam	2,994,000	1923
16	Syria	Aleppo	2,859,000	~5,000 BCE [18]
17	Tunisia	Tunis	2,686,000	814 BCE [19]
18	Saudi Arabia	Mecca	2,252,000	2nd century CE [20]
19	Qatar	Doha	2,160,000	1823 CE [21]
20	Morocco	Rabat	1,982,000	10th century [22]
21	Lebanon	Beirut	1,970,000	~3000 BCE (outer estimate) [23]
22	Palestine	Gaza City	1,851,000	15th century BC
23	Iraq	Erbil	1,750,564	~2300 BCE
24	Saudi Arabia	Medina	1,649,000	9th century BC
25	Iraq	Mosul	1,629,000	~700 BCE
26	Iraq	Basra	1,578,000	636 AD
27	Mauritania	Nouakchott	1,444,000	1903 [24]
28	Bahrain	Manama	1,403,000	1345 or earlier
29	Somalia	Hargeisa	1,401,000	1860 [25] [26] [27]
30	Oman	Muscat	1,364,000	550 BCE
31	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	1,362,000	1761 CE [28]
32	Morocco	Fez, Morocco	1,329,000	789
33	Yemen	Taiz	1,276,000	first half of the 12th century CE [29]
34	Algeria	Oran	1,270,000	AD 944
35	Libya	Tripoli, Libya	1,242,000	7th century BC
36	Morocco	Tangier	1,225,000	10th century BCE [30] [31]
37	Iraq	Najaf	1,127,000	791 AD [32]
38	United Arab Emirates	Al Ain	1,060,000	985 CE [33]
39	Iraq	Kirkuk	1,044,000	2335 BC [34]
40	Yemen	Aden	1,021,000	8th century BC [35]
41	Morocco	Agadir	1,007,000	12th century
42	Egypt	Mansoura, Egypt	993,000	1219
43	Jordan	Irbid	988,000	~3,200 BCE (possibly earlier)

See also

• List of largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East
• List of Arab countries by population
• List of largest cities in the Levant region by population
• List of largest cities

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