Abu Tig, Egypt

For every 10 people in Abu Tig in 1995, there were 29.4 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 582,687 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.

projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low

How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.

How to read this: Egypt and its 219 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Cairo). Abu Tig is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.

In 2025, Abu Tig covered 64 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.4 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 times its size, and its people are 2.9 times as many.

How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.

Of every 1,000 people in Egypt in 2025, 3 lived in Abu Tig, which is 328,639 people.

How to read this: shrink Egypt to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Abu Tig; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 1743 Greater Noida India329,385
2. 1744 Faridpur Bangladesh329,383
3. 1745 Kumba Cameroon329,340
4. 1746 Shiblanga328,820
5. 1747 Abu Tig328,639
6. 1748 Shizuoka Japan328,613
7. 1749 Shangyu District China328,545
8. 1750 Ya'an China328,287
9. 1751 Tezpur India328,217

In Egypt, 2025

1. 1616 Bilbeis353,541
2. 1697 Sidfa336,659
3. 1704 Garawan335,801
4. 1746 Shiblanga328,820
5. 1747 Abu Tig328,639
6. 1756 Girga327,081
7. 1832 Samalut313,324
8. 1833 Girza312,801
9. 1891 Sers Al Layyan303,302

How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.

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The figures for Abu Tig are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Tig 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 →

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