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Al-Manshah, 
Egypt
370,283 people lived in Al-Manshah in 2025. It is the 1542nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 36th largest in Egypt.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Al-Manshah governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Al-Manshah grew
Where Al-Manshah had 10 people in 1990, it had 25.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 491,939 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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-Manshah through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al-Manshah 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-Manshah 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-Manshah covered 75 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.6 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people are 2.6 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-Manshah, which is 370,283 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Al-Manshah. 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
- 1538 Taizhou China371,055
- 1539 Zanjan Iran370,993
- 1540 Muridke Pakistan370,563
- 1541 Dewas India370,472
- 1542 Al-Manshah370,283
- 1543 Daura Nigeria369,916
- 1544 Qarchak Iran369,782
- 1545 Xuancheng China369,529
- 1546 Brest Belarus369,414
In Egypt, 2025
- 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
- 1616 Bilbeis353,541
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-Manshah are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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-Manshah 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