Ten Most Known Cities of the Middle East

10.) Manama: The Capital of Bahrain has a population of about two million with more than three million annual tourists.

9.) Doha: The capital of Qa'tar has a population of over two million with about the same number of tourists.

8.) Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv is an extremely modern city in Israel known for it's beaches. Four million people call it home and about three million people visit annually.

7.) Dubai: Dubai is a city in the United Arab Emirates with a population of over two million. It's known as an extremely luxurious place and receives over eleven million tourists every year. 

6.) Riyadh: Riyadh is the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which is by far the largest country in the Middle East. It's become intriguing to tens of thousands of investors. With a population of more than four million it's among the largest desert cities. It receives close to four million tourists annually.

5.) Baghdad: The Capital and largest city of Iraq its population is about four million. And it receives less than million tourists a year (because of the ongoing war with ISIS.)

4.) Damascus: Damascus is one of the oldest cities ever founded; it's known to Christian worldwide as the place Paul of Tarsus was going to persecute Christians before being Born Again, and to Arab's its remembered as a major city of the Caliphate. Today it's the Capital of Syria. With a population near two million it's suffering greatly with the ongoing conflict and because of it get's no real tourism.

3.) Medina: Medina is known as "the city of The Prophet" and is considered holy by Muslims. The city itself has about one million people but it attracts over ten times as many people every year.

2.) Mecca: It's at Mecca where two million Muslims visit annually for the Hajj and where they face when they pray. Overall approximately twelve million visit the city annually. How many live there?
1.6 million.

1.) Jerusalem: Overall however, the best known city of the region is Jerusalem. It's where King David ruled from, where the Great Jerusalem Temple was built and it was outside this city that Jesus of Nazereth was crucified. Christianity began here. And according to Muslims Muhammad traveled here on a creature called the Buraq. Jerusalem is among the most ancient cities as well as the most populous in the region. Eight million people call Jerusalem home and receives 3.5 million tourists annually.