List of largest cities in the Levant region by population

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This is a list of cities in the Levant with a population of 500,000 or more. For the purposes of this list, the region includes Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and the Hatay Province of Turkey.

RankCityCountryMetropolitan areaPopulation
1 Amman Flag of Jordan.svg  Jordan 6,150,000 [1] 4,642,000 [2]
2 Damascus Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg Syria 3,975,000 [1] 2,503,000 [3]
3 Tel Aviv Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 3,000,000 [1] 1,388,400 [4]
4 Gaza City Flag of Palestine.svg  Palestine 2,275,000 [1] 220,000 [5]
5 Aleppo Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg Syria 1,980,000 (2025) [1] 2,098,210 (2021) [6]
6 Beirut Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon 1,930,000 [1] 433,249 [7] [8]
7 Homs Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg Syria 1,564,000 [9] 775,404 [10]
8 Hama Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg Syria 1,079,000 [11] 996,000 [12]
9 Jerusalem Flag of Israel.svg  Israel / Flag of Palestine.svg  Palestine 1,080,000 [1] 1,028,366 [4]
10 Irbid Flag of Jordan.svg  Jordan 1,070,000 [1] 569,068 [2]
11 Haifa Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 1,050,000 [13] 298,312 [4]
12 Zarqa Flag of Jordan.svg  Jordan 735,744 [14] [15] 635,160
13 Russeifa Flag of Jordan.svg  Jordan 500,000 [16] 280,000 [17]

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Notes

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  2. 1 2 Population estimates by localitydos.gov.jo Archived 28 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Questions & Answers: Water Supply Augmentation Project, Lebanon". The World Bank. 30 September 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
  5. ↑ Fabian, Emanuel (27 September 2025). "IDF says 780,000 have fled Gaza City; Hamas says dozens killed in unrelenting strikes". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 28 September 2025. Around 780,000 Palestinians have so far evacuated Gaza City to the Strip's south, the Israel Defense Forces said Saturday [...] Around one million Palestinians were estimated to be residing in Gaza City before the IDF launched the major offensive earlier this month.
  6. ↑ "Syrian Arab Republic: Aleppo Situation Report No. 14 (20 January 2017) – Highlights of the Report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs". 21 January 2017. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  7. ↑ "Lebanon: Administrative Division (Governorates and Districts) - Population Statistics, Charts and Map". Archived from the original on 2 July 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  8. ↑ "Beirut City Profile 2021" (PDF). unhabitat.org. United Nations Human Settlements Programme. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
  9. ↑ "Homs, Syria Metro Area Population | Historical Data | 1950-2025 | MacroTrends". www.macrotrends.net. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  10. ↑ "Syria Population 2020 (Live)". World Population Review. Archived from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  11. ↑ "Hamah, Syria Metro Area Population (1950-2025) | MacroTrends". www.macrotrends.net. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  12. ↑ "2023 official census". cbss. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  13. ↑ "Localities, Population and Density Per Sq. Km., by Metropolitan Area and Selected Localities" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  14. ↑ City Population, Jordan
  15. ↑ Population estimates by locality
  16. ↑ Russeifa City website
  17. ↑ Russeifa City website
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