List of largest cities in the Levant region by population

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Lol1VNIO (talk | contribs) at 18:33, 24 August 2022 (Reverted edits by 79.76.222.95 (talk) (HG) (3.4.10)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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 the Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and the Hatay Province of Turkey. All figures refer to the metropolitan area if applicable.

Rank City Country Population Source
1 Amman  Jordan 4,642,000 [1]
2 Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area  Israel 3,900,000 [2]
3 Damascus  Syria 2,503,000 [3]
4 Beirut  Lebanon 2,200,000 [4]
5 Aleppo  Syria 2,098,210 [5]
6 Irbid  Jordan 2,050,300 [6]
7 Jerusalem Administered by  Israel

Claimed by  Israel and  Palestine

1,253,900 [7]
8 Haifa  Israel 936,800 [8]
9 Zarqa  Jordan 929,300 [9]
10 Homs  Syria 775,404 [10]
11 Gaza City  Palestine 590,481 [11]
12 Russeifa  Jordan 558,210 [12]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ http://dosweb.dos.gov.jo/DataBank/Population_Estimares/PopulationEstimatesbyLocality.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  2. ^ "Tel Aviv-Yafo: City in numbers". Retrieved 2021-08-16. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ Central Bureau of Statistics of Syria. "2019 Statistical Abstract (in Arabic)". Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  4. ^ "Questions & Answers: Water Supply Augmentation Project, Lebanon". The World Bank. 30 September 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  5. ^ "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". Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  6. ^ http://dosweb.dos.gov.jo/DataBank/Population_Estimares/PopulationEstimatesbyLocality.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  7. ^ "Localities, Population and Density per Sq. Km., by Metropolitan Area and Selected Localities". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  8. ^ "Localities, Popuplation and Density Per Sq. Km., by Metropolitan Area and Selected Localities" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2018. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
  9. ^ http://dosweb.dos.gov.jo/DataBank/Population_Estimares/PopulationEstimatesbyLocality.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  10. ^ "Syria Population 2020 (Live)". World Population Review. Archived from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  11. ^ "Main Indicators by Type of Locality - Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017" (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-01-25. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  12. ^ http://dosweb.dos.gov.jo/DataBank/Population_Estimares/PopulationEstimatesbyLocality.pdf [bare URL PDF]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_largest_cities_in_the_Levant_region_by_population&oldid=1106460815"