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Al-Santa, 
Egypt
302,572 people lived in Al-Santa in 2025. It is the 1894th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 49th largest in Egypt.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Al-Santa's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Al-Santa grew
Count 10 people in Al-Santa in 1985 and the same count gives 38.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 564,142 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, 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-Santa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al-Santa 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-Santa 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-Santa covered 51 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.0 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 times its size, and its people are 3.8 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-Santa, which is 302,572 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-Santa's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1890 Tagum Philippines303,614
- 1891 Sers Al Layyan303,302
- 1892 Rajon Swerdlowski Russia302,890
- 1893 Busto Arsizio Italy302,759
- 1894 Al-Santa302,572
- 1895 Hafar Al-Batin Saudi Arabia302,534
- 1896 Sivakasi India302,256
- 1897 Zhaotong China302,089
- 1898 Tlemcen Algeria301,980
In Egypt, 2025
- 1756 Girga327,081
- 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
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-Santa are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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-Santa 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