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Al Qusiya, 
Egypt
225,243 people lived in Al Qusiya in 2025. It is the 2615th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 63rd largest in Egypt.
Like every city on this site, Al Qusiya 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 Qusiya grew
Where Al Qusiya had 10 people in 1980, it had 40.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 374,420 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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 Qusiya through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al Qusiya 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 Qusiya 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 Qusiya covered 31 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.0 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 3.6 times its size, and its people are 4 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Egypt
Its share of Egypt
Of every 1,000 people in Egypt in 2025, 2 lived in Al Qusiya, which is 225,243 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 Qusiya's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2605 Sevastopol Ukraine226,028
- 2609 MohammadAbad-e Rigan Iran225,871
- 2610 Harar Ethiopia225,677
- 2612 Naqamte Ethiopia225,503
- 2615 Al Qusiya225,243
- 2617 Maharajganj India225,197
- 2618 Samundri Pakistan225,170
- 2624 Ile Oluji Nigeria224,781
- 2627 Manfalut224,667
In Egypt, 2025
- 2398 El Senbellawein243,779
- 2489 Sinnuris235,984
- 2586 Hihya227,360
- 2600 Maghagha226,358
- 2615 Al Qusiya225,243
- 2627 Manfalut224,667
- 2717 Dinjway217,913
- 2875 Beni Mazar207,194
- 3129 Qift191,964
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Al Qusiya are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Qusiya 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