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Al-Mahmudiya, 
Egypt
297,143 people lived in Al-Mahmudiya in 2025. It is the 1946th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 50th largest in Egypt.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Al-Mahmudiya governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Al-Mahmudiya grew
For every 10 people in Al-Mahmudiya in 1975, there were 32.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 555,887 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
Al-Mahmudiya through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al-Mahmudiya 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-Mahmudiya 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-Mahmudiya covered 48 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.9 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 3.2 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-Mahmudiya, which is 297,143 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-Mahmudiya's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1942 Coatzacoalcos Mexico297,319
- 1943 Chon Buri Thailand297,276
- 1944 Quy Nhơn Vietnam297,184
- 1945 Smolensk Russia297,177
- 1946 Al-Mahmudiya297,143
- 1947 Attingal India297,140
- 1948 Moulvibazar Bangladesh297,098
- 1949 Wenjiang China296,976
- 1950 Valsad India296,851
In Egypt, 2025
- 1832 Samalut313,324
- 1833 Girza312,801
- 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
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-Mahmudiya 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-Mahmudiya 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