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
editLargest cities in the Arab world by official cities proper:[2][better source needed]
Rank | Country | City | Population | Founding date | Image |
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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] | 10 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 | Iraqi Kurdistan | Erbil | 1,750,564 | ~2300 BCE (believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world) | |
22 | Iraq | Mosul | 1,683,000 | ~700 BCE | |
23 | Oman | Muscat | 1,560,000 | 550 BCE |
See also
editReferences
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- ^ "Demographia World Urban Areas" (PDF). Demographia. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
- ^ https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/cairo-population [bare URL]
- ^ Corzine, Phyllis (2005). The Islamic Empire. Thomson Gale. pp. 68–69.
- ^ Saud Al-Oteibi; Allen G. Noble; Frank J. Costa (February 1993). "The Impact of Planning on Growth and Development in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1970-1990". GeoJournal. 29.
- ^ Reimer, Michael (2016). "Alexandria". Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ^ "Prehistoric Settlements of the Middle East". Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ "The Old Testament Kingdoms of Jordan". kinghussein.gov.jo. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 653–655.
- ^ "صحيفة عكاظ - جدة اليوم.. والعم وهيب". Okaz.com.sa. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-04-17.
- ^ "Virtual Jewish World: Casablanca, Morocco". Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
- ^ "Sanaa Population 2023". worldpopulationreview.com. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 125–126.
- ^ "تاريخ دبي". حكومة دبي. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ^ Abdel Salam Sidahmed; Alsir Sidahmed (2004). "Chronology". Sudan. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-47947-4.
- ^ Serge Lancel (1995). Carthage. Translated by Antonia Nevill. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 20–23.
- ^ "Abu Dhabi Population 2023". census.scad.gov.ae. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
- ^ Malcolm C. Peck (2007). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6416-0.
- ^ Mogadishu Population 2024
- ^ https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/places-global-african-history/mogadishu-somalia-ca-950/ [bare URL]
- ^ https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22610/damascus/population=January 1, 2023.
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- ^ "Under Beirut's Rubble, Remnants of 5,000 Years of Civilization". New York Times. 23 February 1997. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
- ^ 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]
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- ^ 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.