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Biggest Cities in North Africa on a Map

Can you name every urban area in North Africa with more than 300,000 people - with the help of a map?
Using 2020 urban area populations according to United Nations World Urbanization Prospects
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Last updated: March 12, 2025
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First submittedApril 20, 2020
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City
Population
Cairo
20,901,000
Khartoum
5,829,000
Alexandria
5,281,000
Casablanca
3,752,000
Algiers
2,768,000
Tunis
2,365,000
Rabat
1,885,000
Fes
1,224,000
Tangier
1,198,000
Tripoli
1,165,000
Marrakesh
1,003,000
Agadir
924,000
Nyala
923,000
Oran
899,000
Misrata
881,000
City
Population
Benghazi
824,000
Port Said
737,000
Suez
638,000
Sfax
630,000
Oujda
559,000
Mansoura
556,000
Meknes
554,000
El Mahalla El Kubra
518,000
Djelfa
503,000
Tanta
501,000
Port Sudan
484,000
El Obeid
481,000
Kenitra
480,000
Blida
473,000
Asyut
461,000
City
Population
Tetouan
421,000
Constantine
414,000
Faiyum
410,000
Wad Medani
374,000
Kassala
364,000
Annaba
358,000
Zagazig
358,000
El-Gadarif
357,000
Ismailia
354,000
Aswan
345,000
Kafr El Dawwar
344,000
Batna
329,000
Safi
324,000
Setif
313,000
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6 Comments
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Level 79
Mar 12, 2025
This dataset for some reason doesn't include Sousse and I'm not sure why. It should almost definitely be on here but there are 0 sources available for African urban area populations so there's not really a way to cross reference aside from the citypopulation agglomeration page which as you can tell uses a completely different metric with wildly different populations from the ones shown here.
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Level 82
Apr 20, 2020
I think that Fes is bigger than Agadir - and possibly Tanger and Marrakesh are too.
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Level 79
Apr 20, 2020
Fixed, thanks
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Level 59
Apr 14, 2021
Great quiz!
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Level 59
May 20, 2025
Nice quiz, if possible I'd add more "type-ins". For example I didn't get all the cities because I knew about Al Ubayyid, Al Ismailiyah, Al fayum, Az Zaqaziq, Al mahallah Al kubra and finally Wad Madani.

Still great quiz!!

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Level 55
Oct 29, 2025
I also say to allow al-Qadarif as an answer for el-Gadarif