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	22,623,874	968 CE[3]
2	Iraq	Baghdad	8,126,755	762 CE[4]
3	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	7,676,654	1746 CE[5]
4	Egypt	Alexandria	5,381,000	332 BCE[6]
5	Jordan	Amman	4,642,000	7250 BCE[7][8]
6	Algeria	Algiers	4,515,000	944 CE[9]
7	Saudi Arabia	Jeddah	4,276,000	522 BCE[10]
8	Morocco	Casablanca	3,359,818	7th century[11]
9	Yemen	Sana'a	3,292,497[12]	~500 BCE (possibly earlier)[13]
10	United Arab Emirates	Dubai	3,287,007	1833 CE[14]
11	Sudan	Khartoum	2,919,773	1824 CE[15]
12	Tunisia	Tunis	2,800,000	814 BCE[16]
13	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	3,789,860[17]	1761 CE[18]
14	Somalia	Mogadishu	2,726,815[19]	10th Century[20]
15	Syria	Damascus	2,685,000[21]	~8,000–10,000 BCE[22]
16	Lebanon	Beirut	2,600,000	~3000 BCE (outer estimate)[23]
17	Kuwait	Kuwait City	2,380,000	1613 CE[24]
18	Syria	Aleppo	2,318,000	~5,000 BCE[25]
19	Jordan	Irbid	2,050,300	~3,200 BCE (possibly earlier)
20	Qatar	Doha	1,850,000	1823 CE[26]
21	Iraq	Erbil	1,750,564	~2300 BCE
22	Iraq	Mosul	1,683,000	~700 BCE
23	Oman	Muscat	1,560,000	550 BCE

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