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Al-Asafra, 
Egypt
379,559 people lived in Al-Asafra in 2025. It is the 1497th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 35th largest in Egypt.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Al-Asafra's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Al-Asafra grew
Where Al-Asafra had 10 people in 1975, it had 72.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 561,335 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Al-Asafra through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al-Asafra in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
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). Al-Asafra is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Al-Asafra covered 54 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.4 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 4.2 times its size, and its people are 3.4 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, 3 lived in Al-Asafra, which is 379,559 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Al-Asafra. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1493 Mahilioŭ Belarus380,951
- 1494 Dongyang China380,793
- 1495 Mbale City Uganda380,565
- 1496 KUNDULUN Nigeria380,118
- 1497 Al-Asafra379,559
- 1498 Cumana Venezuela379,333
- 1499 Laiwu China379,135
- 1500 Lop Buri Thailand378,160
- 1501 Bengkulu Indonesia378,066
In Egypt, 2025
- 1410 Mallawi401,471
- 1431 Mit Habib397,104
- 1466 Birimbal al Quadima389,333
- 1469 Al Roda387,432
- 1497 Al-Asafra379,559
- 1542 Al-Manshah370,283
- 1567 Dusuq366,123
- 1608 Balyana354,769
- 1615 Kafr Al-Zaiyat354,037
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Al-Asafra 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-Asafra 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