Arabic

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Data as of 28 Oct 2026 · Glottolog arab1395 · Afro-Asiatic · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet

States where it is the first language

States whose first language is this one, largest population first.

1

10.0M

2

9.8M

3

9.3M

4

8.6M

5

8.2M

6

7.7M

7

7.6M

8

Central

7.0M

9

Libya

6.9M

10

6.9M

11

6.7M

12

6.1M

#	State	Country
1	Cairo	Egypt	10,044,894
2	Baghdad	Iraq	9,780,429
3	Giza	Egypt	9,250,791
4	Mecca	Saudi Arabia	8,557,766
5	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	8,216,284
6	Khartoum	Sudan	7,687,547
7	Sharqia	Egypt	7,640,071
8	Central	Jordan	7,011,600
9	Libya	Libya	6,931,061
10	Dakahlia	Egypt	6,889,962
11	Beheira	Egypt	6,676,858
12	Minya	Egypt	6,077,791
13	Qalyubia	Egypt	5,982,567
14	Sohag	Egypt	5,486,409
15	Alexandria	Egypt	5,441,866
16	Gharbia	Egypt	5,309,440
17	Al Jazirah	Sudan	4,926,555
18	Eastern	Saudi Arabia	4,900,325
19	Asyut	Egypt	4,847,735
20	Monufia	Egypt	4,604,599
21	Taiz	Yemen	4,554,443
22	Ninawa	Iraq	4,261,980
23	Aleppo	Syria	4,118,000
24	Faiyum	Egypt	3,928,020
25	Ibb	Yemen	3,911,070
26	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	3,789,860
27	Al Hudaydah	Yemen	3,774,914
28	Basra	Iraq	3,664,168
29	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	3,655,000
30	Kafr el-Sheikh	Egypt	3,620,887
31	Qena	Egypt	3,492,867
32	Beni Suef	Egypt	3,455,733
33	Rif Dimashq	Syria	3,372,000
34	North	Jordan	3,165,800
35	West Bank	Palestine	3,053,183
36	Algiers	Algeria	2,988,145
37	South Darfur	Sudan	2,890,348
38	North Kordofan	Sudan	2,529,370
39	Dhi Qar	Iraq	2,499,468
40	Central Darfur	Sudan	2,499,000
41	Babil	Iraq	2,482,324
42	Sana'a	Yemen	2,279,665
43	Asir	Saudi Arabia	2,211,875
44	Hama	Syria	2,147,000
45	Damascus	Syria	2,103,000
46	Gaza Strip	Palestine	2,047,969
47	Kirkuk	Iraq	2,034,627
48	Al-Anbar	Iraq	2,004,418
49	Najaf	Iraq	1,950,833
50	Diyala	Iraq	1,934,504

Family

Where it sits in the Glottolog tree, root to language.

Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Arabian
Arabic

Afro-Asiatic: 42 languages, 836M speakers.

Where these numbers come from

Unicode CLDR territoryInfo (release 49) (Unicode License v3). Country-level language shares, official status and Tier 3 reach (populationPercent is total speakers, first plus second language).
Glottolog 5.3 (CC BY 4.0). Language names, ISO 639-3 codes, families.
Database of International and Intranational Linguistic distances (DICL v2), USITC (CC BY 4.0). Country-pair linguistic proximity (loaded, not yet shown in release one).
States (ISO 3166-2) sheet, MetroAreas workbook (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation). States, populations and the four language labels per state.
Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 Countries (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector) (Public domain). World outline for the language maps (world-110m.geojson, properties reduced to iso3 and name).
Country layer of this site (countries.json workbook population, World Bank iso2 and iso3, OWID country-population) (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation; World Bank CC BY 4.0; OWID CC BY). Country population, iso2 and /countries slug joined onto languages, countries and families (speakers = share x population).

Definitions are on the Method page.