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20 largest cities in the Libyan Desert

20 cities, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The cities

  1. 1Faiyum395 k
  2. 2Sinnuris134 k
  3. 3Marsa Matruh109 k
  4. 4Ash-Shaykh Zayid96 k
  5. 5Al-Kharijah83 k
  6. 6Sadat79 k
  7. 7Atsa74 k
  8. 8Tamiya73 k
  9. 9El-Kharga Town61 k
  10. 10El Tag46 k
  11. 11Al Jawf42 k
  12. 12Madinat Wadi an Natrun41 k
  13. 13Sidi Barrani38 k
  14. 14Siwa Oasis25 k
  15. 15Yusuf as-Siddiq24 k
  16. 16An Nubariyah23 k
  17. 17An-Najaylah20 k
  18. 18Mut20 k
  19. 19Bawiti16 k
  20. 20Sallum8 k

Population of the metro area: the city and the places continuously built up around it, as Thomas Brinkhoff’s Major Agglomerations of the World (citypopulation.de) counts them from censuses projected to 1 January 2026, the list most rankings use. It covers every agglomeration of 1 million or more; below that, a city ranks by its agglomeration in the United Nations’ World Urbanization Prospects 2018 (every one of 300,000 or more, from national censuses), and a smaller city by its city-proper figure. A city inside another city’s metro area (Giza in Cairo’s, Pretoria in Johannesburg’s) is not ranked on its own. The Libyan Desert: what lies inside the desert’s outline, by each item’s point (a lake’s centre, a river’s mouth, a summit). Sources: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), GHSL UCDB R2024A (CC BY 4.0), United Nations, DESA, Population Division: World Urbanization Prospects 2018 (CC BY 3.0 IGO), Wikidata names (CC0).

On the map

Map of 20 largest cities in the Libyan Desert, 20 cities: each one marked on the globe

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