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Abu Kabir, 
Egypt
274,073 people lived in Abu Kabir in 2025. It is the 2118th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 52nd largest in Egypt.
Like every city on this site, Abu Kabir is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Abu Kabir grew
Count 10 people in Abu Kabir in 1975 and the same count gives 43.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 535,589 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Abu Kabir through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Abu Kabir in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Abu Kabir is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Egypt in 2025, 219 in all, led by Cairo, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Abu Kabir covered 40 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.5 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.4 times its size, and its people are 4.3 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Egypt
Its share of Egypt
Of every 1,000 people in Egypt in 2025, 2 lived in Abu Kabir, which is 274,073 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Egypt, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Abu Kabir's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2113 San Salvador de Jujuy Argentina274,625
- 2115 RICCO Industrial Area India274,572
- 2116 Gaithersburg United States274,439
- 2117 Xianning China274,146
- 2118 Abu Kabir274,073
- 2120 Vehari Pakistan273,823
- 2121 Magboro Nigeria273,818
- 2122 Nacala Mozambique273,732
- 2123 Yibin China273,660
In Egypt, 2025
- 1891 Sers Al Layyan303,302
- 1894 Al-Santa302,572
- 1946 Al-Mahmudiya297,143
- 2019 Nag Hammadi288,576
- 2118 Abu Kabir274,073
- 2205 Tima264,280
- 2310 Rosetta252,147
- 2325 Diyarb Nigm250,476
- 2358 Qus247,941
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Abu Kabir are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Abu Kabir publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries