15 Largest Cities in the Middle East (with a map)

Haha these scores are exactly as I would expect them to be and match exactly how well I did. National capital, national capital, major city, major city, etc., lesser cities that I've heard of... Wait, there are more cities in Iran than the capital? Not gonna get those...

kuwiat as a country has just 3.6 millions. how it possible for its capital to contain more that 4 million peoples. your source is definitely wrong. try other sources like cia factbook.

Are you from the Middle East? I first encountered that spelling only after I traveled there. I think it's new. Mecca has transitioned to Makkah. Medina to Madinah. Spelling seems to be a moving target when it comes to names that are transliterated into other scripts. See Peking > Beijing and Bombay > Mumbai or Calcutta > Kolkata.

Not only that, even in the local languages of places, just study old maps. I've always found it fascinating to see the change of placenames through the centuries. Sometimes clearly miscopied maps, sometimes different sources of words that hadn't been seen written before. And the usual shifts that happened in all words of a language not just placenames.

I've never seen the transliterations of Jiddah, Makkah or Madinah.

And so type-ins should be added.

Only the Sinai is in the Middle East, the rest of Egypt is in North Africa which includes both Cairo and Alexandria.

I saw your link, but whoever updated that page on Wikipedia made a slight mistake on Egypt. Some countries are transcontinental and have cities on two continents. For example, Moscow is in the European part of Russia while Vladivostok is in the Asian part of Russia. Much of Istanbul is in Europe while Ankara is in Asia. In Egypt Cairo is in Africa but Sharm El Sheik is in the Middle East.

Yes, the Middle East includes all of Egypt, and the European part of Turkey, while Western Asia includes the Sinai peninsula of Egypt (which is in Asia), Turkey excluding the European part, and the Caucasus (which the Middle East doesn't).

Do I finally know how to spell 'Jeddah', then you come along with Mashhad. Blergh.

I got most of the obvious ones: Was surprised that Doha was not there but that is too small.

accept isfaghan

Esfahan, please.

Isfahan!!

Good quiz!

I was wondering how there are still so many people in Syria. Aren't they all basically dead by now?

Um no they're not all dead.

Here is a map quiz for this

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Its Jiddah in Saudi Arabia not Jeddah. If you will not change the spelling at least accept Jiddah as a correct answer. I was going crazy . Otherwise nice quiz

It's Jeddah (some accept without the 'H' on the end) on every other quiz on here. There are quizzes for cities and nations in their native languages...

where is tel aviv?

In Israel

please accept jedah with one h

Accept Ispahan please!