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Al Minya, 
Egypt
561,945 people lived in Al Minya in 2025. It is the 976th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 20th largest in Egypt.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Al Minya grew
For every 10 people in Al Minya in 1975, there were 46.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 775,355 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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 Minya through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al Minya 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 Minya 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 Minya covered 54 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.1 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.1 times its size, and its people are 4.7 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, 5 lived in Al Minya, which is 561,945 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Al Minya. 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
- 972 Ondo Nigeria564,330
- 973 Gothenburg Sweden562,945
- 974 Shengze China562,800
- 975 Sultanpur India562,032
- 976 Al Minya561,945
- 977 Denizli Türkiye561,327
- 978 Otsu Japan559,798
- 979 Qarshi Uzbekistan559,475
- 980 Chhapra India559,249
In Egypt, 2025
- 886 Al Ismailiya612,046
- 897 Shibin Al-Kom605,913
- 949 Damanhur579,215
- 964 Suez567,866
- 976 Al Minya561,945
- 1104 Dairut501,258
- 1127 Aswan493,753
- 1150 Tahta482,194
- 1181 Faqous470,110
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 Minya 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 Minya 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