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حلب (Ḥalab), also called Aleppo, is situated on the esh Sharqi (Anti-Lebanon) Mountains' eastern edge in northern سورية (Sūriyya or Syria). The tallest building is the modern al-Rahman Mosque at 75 meters.
| Year | Population | Political entity |
| 622 | 72,000 | Eranshahr (Sassanian Empire) |
| 1000 | 40,000 | City State of Halab |
| 1200 | 45,000 | Sulṭānate of Halab |
| 1400 | 75,000 | Sulṭānate al-Mamalik (Mamluk Empire) |
| 1500 | 67,000 | Sulṭānate al-Mamalik (Mamluk Empire) |
| 1600 | 61,000 | Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye (Ottoman Empire) |
| 1700 | 67,000 | Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye (Ottoman Empire) |
| 1800 | 72,000 | Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyyee (Ottoman Empire) |
| 1900 | 130,000 | Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye (Ottoman Empire) |
It has an estimated 3.5 million metropolitan residents in 2010 and had over a million in 2000.
1. Emporis.com, accessed 10/16/2010.
2. World Heritage Sites (Unesco, 2010).
3. Estimates in Tables of the World's Largest Cities, in Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987). In 622, 1000, 1400, 1500 and 1600, Halab was the largest city in what is now Suriyya and, in 622, it was the ninth largest city in the world.
4. World-gazetteer.com (accessed 9/4/2010). Metropolitan population in 1983 was 985 and in 2003 was 1.6 million, so by reasonable interpolation it had over one million in 2000.