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Al Roda, 
Egypt
387,432 people lived in Al Roda in 2025. It is the 1469th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 34th largest in Egypt.
Like every city on this site, Al Roda is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Al Roda grew
Count 10 people in Al Roda in 2000 and the same count gives 35.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 648,500 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, 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 Roda through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al Roda in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Al Roda is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Egypt in 2025, 219 in all, led by Cairo, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Al Roda covered 79 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.7 km² of it. That is 25 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 3.5 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 Roda, which is 387,432 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Al Roda. 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
- 1465 Phuket Thailand389,376
- 1466 Birimbal al Quadima389,333
- 1467 Pishva Iran388,154
- 1468 Ulyanovsk Russia387,698
- 1469 Al Roda387,432
- 1470 Ganja Azerbaijan386,822
- 1471 Malemba-Nkulu Democratic Republic of the Congo386,790
- 1472 Changping China386,664
- 1473 Bournemouth United Kingdom386,557
In Egypt, 2025
- 1405 Minya Al-Qamh402,716
- 1410 Mallawi401,471
- 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
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 Roda are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Roda 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