Syria: cities by population
Syria has a population of 26,472,497 (UN estimate, 2026), with Damascus as its capital. The 50 largest of its 125 recorded towns and cities, ranked.
+59%
since 2000 (16,637,888)
+43%
projected by 2050 (37,793,372)
144
people per km²
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.
Largest cities in Syria
| # | Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aleppo | Aleppo | 2,098,210 |
| 2 | Damascus | Damascus Governorate | 1,569,394 |
| 3 | Homs | Homs | 775,404 |
| 4 | Latakia | Latakia | 709,000 |
| 5 | Ar Raqqah | Raqqa | 531,952 |
| 6 | Ḩamāh | Hama | 460,602 |
| 7 | Ţarţūs | Tartus | 458,327 |
| 8 | Al Ḩasakah | Al-Hasakah | 422,445 |
| 9 | Deir ez-Zor | Deir ez-Zor | 271,800 |
| 10 | Al Qāmishlī | Al-Hasakah | 184,231 |
| 11 | Al Bāb | Aleppo | 130,745 |
| 12 | Idlib | Idlib | 128,840 |
| 13 | Dūmā | Rif-dimashq | 111,864 |
| 14 | al-Yarmūk | Damascus Governorate | 99,999 |
| 15 | Jaramānā | Rif-dimashq | 99,999 |
| 16 | Manbij | Aleppo | 99,497 |
| 17 | Dar‘ā | Daraa | 97,969 |
| 18 | As Salamīyah | Hama | 94,887 |
| 19 | Al-Tabqa | Raqqa | 87,880 |
| 20 | Dārayyā | Rif-dimashq | 71,596 |
| 21 | I‘zāz | Aleppo | 66,138 |
| 22 | Jablah | Latakia | 65,915 |
| 23 | As Safīrah | Aleppo | 63,708 |
| 24 | As-Suwayda | Suwayda | 59,052 |
| 25 | Ālbū Kamāl | Deir ez-Zor | 57,572 |
| 26 | At Tall | Rif-dimashq | 55,561 |
| 27 | Al Mayādīn | Deir ez-Zor | 54,534 |
| 28 | Ar Rastan | Homs | 53,152 |
| 29 | Kabbasin | Aleppo | 51,230 |
| 30 | Tadmur | Homs | 51,015 |
| 31 | Babīlā | Rif-dimashq | 50,880 |
| 32 | ‘Ayn al ‘Arab | Aleppo | 50,000 |
| 33 | An Nabk | Rif-dimashq | 49,372 |
| 34 | Khān Shaykhūn | Idlib | 48,975 |
| 35 | ‘Afrīn | Aleppo | 48,693 |
| 36 | Nawá | Daraa | 47,066 |
| 37 | Kafranbel | Idlib | 45,652 |
| 38 | ‘Irbīn | Rif-dimashq | 42,474 |
| 39 | Al Quşayr | Homs | 41,062 |
| 40 | Yabrūd | Rif-dimashq | 40,502 |
| 41 | Jisr ash Shughūr | Idlib | 39,311 |
| 42 | Bāniyās | Tartus | 39,066 |
| 43 | Tallbīsah | Homs | 38,491 |
| 44 | Ḩarastā | Rif-dimashq | 37,348 |
| 45 | Al Qunayţirah | Quneitra | 36,143 |
| 46 | Tādif | Aleppo | 34,670 |
| 47 | Saraqib | Idlib | 34,231 |
| 48 | Jayrūd | Rif-dimashq | 32,352 |
| 49 | Maşyāf | Hama | 32,262 |
| 50 | Ma‘arratmişrīn | Idlib | 32,163 |
Twenty years earlier: Syria in the 2005 World Gazetteer — population then 18,586,743.
Common questions
What is the population of Syria?
Syria has a population of 26,472,497, the UN World Population Prospects estimate for 2026. The UN's medium-variant projection for 2050 is 37,793,372 — a forecast, not a measurement.
What is the capital of Syria?
Damascus. The largest place we record there is Aleppo, with 2,098,210 people.