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Syria: cities by population

Syria has a population of 16,906,283, with Damascus as its capital. The 50 largest of its 125 recorded towns and cities, ranked.

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 GeoNames country data. Sources & method.

#	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.