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Al Abbasa al Sharqiya, 
Egypt
457,678 people lived in Al Abbasa al Sharqiya in 2025. It is the 1214th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 25th largest in Egypt.
Like every city on this site, Al Abbasa al Sharqiya 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 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya grew
Where Al Abbasa al Sharqiya had 10 people in 1975, it had 86.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 791,764 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Al Abbasa al Sharqiya through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al Abbasa al Sharqiya in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 219 cities in Egypt in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Cairo. The ringed dot in colour is Al Abbasa al Sharqiya; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Al Abbasa al Sharqiya covered 96 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 10.8 times its size, and its people are 6 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Egypt
Its share of Egypt
Of every 1,000 people in Egypt in 2025, 4 lived in Al Abbasa al Sharqiya, which is 457,678 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 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1210 Kota Bharu Malaysia460,445
- 1211 Elenga Bangladesh459,645
- 1212 Atlanta United States458,225
- 1213 Jhelum Pakistan457,793
- 1214 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya457,678
- 1215 Barishal Bangladesh457,323
- 1216 Jiaozhou China457,288
- 1217 Batman Türkiye456,902
- 1218 Saharsa India456,879
In Egypt, 2025
- 1104 Dairut501,258
- 1127 Aswan493,753
- 1150 Tahta482,194
- 1181 Faqous470,110
- 1214 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya457,678
- 1268 Maragha440,011
- 1306 Samadon428,126
- 1353 Kafr Al Sheikh415,494
- 1364 Sanhur412,618
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.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Al Abbasa al Sharqiya 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 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya 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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