List of largest cities in the Arab world

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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[edit]

Largest cities in the Arab world by official cities proper:[2][better source needed]

Rank Country City Population Founding date Image
1  Egypt Cairo 22,623,874

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2  Iraq Baghdad 8,126,755 762 CE[4]
3  Saudi Arabia Riyadh 7,820,551 1746 CE[5]
4  Egypt Alexandria 5,696,131 332 BCE[6]
5  Jordan Amman 4,642,000 7250 BCE[7]
6  Algeria Algiers 4,515,000 944 CE[8]
7  Saudi Arabia Jeddah 4,943,210 522 BCE[9]
8  Morocco Casablanca 3,950,408 7th century[10]
9  Yemen Sana'a 3,292,497[11] ~500 BCE (possibly earlier)[12]
10  United Arab Emirates Dubai 3,287,007 1833 CE[13]
11  Sudan Khartoum 2,919,773 1824 CE[14]
12  Tunisia Tunis 2,800,000 814 BCE[15]
13  United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 2,784,490 1761 CE[16]
14  Syria Damascus 2,685,000[17] ~8,000–10,000 BCE (believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world)[18]
15  Lebanon Beirut 2,600,000 ~3000 BCE (outer estimate)[19]
15  Kuwait Kuwait City 2,380,000 1613 CE[20]
16  Syria Aleppo 2,318,000 ~5,000 BCE[21]
18  Jordan Irbid 2,050,300 ~3,200 BCE (possibly earlier)
19  Qatar Doha 1,850,000 1823 CE[22]
20  Iraq Erbil 1,750,564 ~2300 BCE
21  Iraq Mosul 1,683,000 ~700 BCE
22  Oman Muscat 1,560,000 550 BCE
23  Palestine Hebron 1,004,510 1727 BCE

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Frishkopf, Michael (2010). Music and media in the Arab world. The American University in Cairo Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-977-416-293-0.
  2. ^ "Demographia World Urban Areas" (PDF). Demographia. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  3. ^ https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/cairo-population
  4. ^ Corzine, Phyllis (2005). The Islamic Empire. Thomson Gale. pp. 68–69.
  5. ^ https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/riyadh-population
  6. ^ Reimer, Michael (2016). "Alexandria". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  7. ^ https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/alexandria-population
  8. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Algiers" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 653–655.
  9. ^ https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/jiddah-population
  10. ^ https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/casablanca-population
  11. ^ "Sanaa Population 2023". worldpopulationreview.com. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  12. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sana" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 125–126.
  13. ^ "تاريخ دبي". حكومة دبي. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  14. ^ Abdel Salam Sidahmed; Alsir Sidahmed (2004). "Chronology". Sudan. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-47947-4.
  15. ^ Serge Lancel (1995). Carthage. Translated by Antonia Nevill. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 20–23.
  16. ^ Malcolm C. Peck (2007). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6416-0.
  17. ^ https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22610/damascus/population=January 1, 2023. {{cite web}}: External link in |author= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "Ancient City of Damascus".
  19. ^ "Under Beirut's Rubble, Remnants of 5,000 Years of Civilization". New York Times. 23 February 1997. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
  20. ^ Al-Jassar, Mohammad Khalid A. (May 2009). Constancy and Change in Contemporary Kuwait City: The Socio-cultural Dimensions of the Kuwait Courtyard and Diwaniyya (PhD thesis). The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-109-22934-9.[permanent dead link]
  21. ^ [[1]], Sixth Edition (2010)
  22. ^ Dumper, Michael; Stanley, Bruce E.; Abu-Lughod, Janet L. (2007). Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-57607-919-5.
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