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Al Ismailiya, 
Egypt
612,046 people lived in Al Ismailiya in 2025. It is the 886th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th largest in Egypt.
Like every city on this site, Al Ismailiya 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 Ismailiya grew
Count 10 people in Al Ismailiya in 1975 and the same count gives 29.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.0 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2045 and 2050.
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
Al Ismailiya through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al Ismailiya 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 Ismailiya; 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 Ismailiya covered 76 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 2.9 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, 5 lived in Al Ismailiya, which is 612,046 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 Ismailiya's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 882 Suining China613,678
- 883 Uberlândia Brazil613,434
- 884 Bissau Guinea-Bissau612,643
- 885 Rajmahal India612,055
- 886 Al Ismailiya612,046
- 887 Hanover Germany611,288
- 888 Cipanas Indonesia610,177
- 889 Xingning China609,923
- 890 Kasur Pakistan609,468
In Egypt, 2025
- 620 Faiyum846,831
- 649 Mit Ghamr812,947
- 719 Damietta743,111
- 786 Beni Suef684,414
- 886 Al Ismailiya612,046
- 897 Shibin Al-Kom605,913
- 949 Damanhur579,215
- 964 Suez567,866
- 976 Al Minya561,945
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 Ismailiya 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 Ismailiya 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