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Najaf
Najaf, southern Iraq city housing the Imam Ali Shrine, Wadi al-Salam (world's largest cemetery, 9.17 km²), and the quietist Shia hawza; 12–18 million pilgrims yearly, tourism ~30% of governorate GDP, distinct from Karbala and Qom.
Nazareth (الناصرة)
Nazareth (الناصرة, an-Nasira) is a city in Lower Galilee, Israel, the New Testament hometown of Jesus and today Israel's largest Arab city, about 78,000 residents, one third Christian, centered on the Basilica of the Annunciation.
Netanya (נתניה)
Netanya (נתניה) is a Mediterranean coastal city in Israel's Central District, the country's seventh largest, founded in 1929, known for its kurkar cliffs, cliff-protection breakwaters, and the Netanya 2035 growth plan.
Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva (פתח תקווה), "Mother of the Moshavot," is a city east of Tel Aviv founded in 1878 as a Jewish agricultural colony; fifth largest Israeli city, home to Rabin Medical Center, industrial zones, and Red Line light rail.
Qalqilya (قلقيلية)
Qalqilya (قلقيلية), also spelled Qalqiliya, is a Palestinian city of about 56,000 in the northern West Bank, the only one fully encircled by Israel's separation wall since 2002.
Ramadi
Ramadi (الرمادي) is the capital of Iraq's Anbar Governorate on the Euphrates, about 100 km west of Baghdad. Founded as an Ottoman administrative center in the 1860s-1870s, seized by ISIS in May 2015 and retaken in December 2015, with 295,105 residents in the 2024 census.
Ramallah (رام الله)
Ramallah (رام الله) is a West Bank city of about 70,000 people and the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian Authority; municipality founded 1908, area about 18,600 dunums, governorate population about 370,000.
Ramat Gan (רמת גן)
Ramat Gan (רמת גן) is a city in Israel's Tel Aviv District, founded 1921 as a garden city, city status 1950, population 167,795 (2023), home of the Diamond Exchange district, Ramat Gan National Park, and the Safari zoo.
Raqqa (الرقة)
Raqqa (الرقة), a city on the Euphrates in northern Syria; ancient Kallinikos, Abbasid imperial capital under Harun al-Rashid, later the Islamic State's de facto capital (2014–2017), retaken by the SDF in 2017 and by the Syrian government in January 2026.
Rishon LeZion (ראשון לציון)
Rishon LeZion (ראשון לציון), founded 31 July 1882 as the first First Aliyah colony on the Ayun Qara land near Jaffa, is Israel's fourth largest city with about 258,000 residents, home of Hebrew education and the Carmel winery.
Safed
Safed (Tzfat, צפת), a hilltop city in Israel's Upper Galilee at 750–900 m elevation, one of Judaism's four holy cities and a 16th-century Kabbalah center; population about 39,000, captured by the Haganah in May 1948.
Sidon
Sidon (Saida), ancient Phoenician port city in southern Lebanon between Tyre and Beirut; Bronze Age origins, British Museum College Site excavations, royal necropolis sarcophagi, and Lebanon's largest smaller public port.
Sulaymaniyah
Sulaymaniyah (Slemani, السليمانية), second-largest city of Iraq's Kurdistan Region after Erbil; founded 1784 by Ibrahim Pasha Baban, a Kurdish cultural center of about 1.5 million people with a semi-arid climate and growing water stress.
Tartus (طرطوس)
Tartus (طرطوس) is a Mediterranean coastal city in western Syria, capital of Tartus Governorate and site of Syria's second-largest seaport after Latakia, the former Russian naval base now being redeveloped under a DP World agreement.
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv (תל אביב; Tel Aviv-Yafo), Israeli Mediterranean city founded 1909 as a garden suburb of Jaffa, merged with Jaffa in 1950; noted for the Geddes-planned White City, a 2003 UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bauhaus-era Modern Movement architecture.
Tiberias (טבריה)
Tiberias (טבריה), a city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, founded by Herod Antipas and named for Emperor Tiberius; later a center of Jewish scholarship, repeatedly struck by earthquakes, now about 55,000 residents.
Tikrit (تكريت)
Tikrit (تكريت), Iraqi city on the west bank of the Tigris, capital of Salah ad-Din Governorate 140 km northwest of Baghdad; medieval fortress town, Saladin's birthplace, Saddam Hussein's hometown, recaptured from ISIS in April 2015.
Tripoli, Lebanon
Tripoli (طرابلس, Tarabulus al-Sham) is Lebanon's second-largest city and North Governorate capital, 81-85 km north of Beirut. A Phoenician three-city union, Crusader county seat, and Mamluk-era hub, it holds Lebanon's richest Mamluk architecture after Cairo, the Niemeyer fairground, and the country's second port.
Tulkarm
Tulkarm (Tulkarem, طولكرم) is a Palestinian city in the north-west West Bank, home to the 1950 Tulkarm refugee camp, the West Bank's second largest, emptied and largely destroyed during Israel's Operation Iron Wall from 2025.
Tyre, Lebanon
Tyre (Sour, صور), Lebanon's fourth-largest coastal city 83 km south of Beirut, is an ancient Phoenician city and 1984 UNESCO World Heritage site, placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in July 2026 after wartime strikes damaged the site.
Zakho
Zakho is a border city of about 260,000 people in Duhok Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, 50 km north of Duhok near Turkey, known for the ancient Delal Bridge over the Khabur River and the Ibrahim Khalil border crossing.
Zarqa
Zarqa (الزرقاء), Jordanian industrial city and governorate 20 km northeast of Amman, founded by Chechen refugees in 1902; holds 52% of Jordan's industries, third largest governorate by population, on the polluted Zarqa River.