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Al-Wasitah, 
Egypt
181,776 people lived in Al-Wasitah in 2025. It is the 3314th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 71st largest in Egypt.
Like every city on this site, Al-Wasitah 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-Wasitah grew
For every 10 people in Al-Wasitah in 1975, there were 33 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 409,882 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035.
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-Wasitah through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al-Wasitah 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-Wasitah 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-Wasitah covered 20 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.3 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 3.3 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, 2 lived in Al-Wasitah, which is 181,776 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Al-Wasitah. 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
- 3287 Koudougou Burkina Faso183,409
- 3291 Afamolla Bangladesh183,242
- 3311 Sumbawanga Tanzania181,940
- 3313 Kotli Pakistan181,837
- 3314 Al-Wasitah181,776
- 3335 Taraz Kazakhstan180,844
- 3348 Beni Muhammadiyat180,286
- 3355 Sinkāt Sudan180,082
- 3375 Nouadhibou Mauritania179,362
In Egypt, 2025
- 2627 Manfalut224,667
- 2717 Dinjway217,913
- 2875 Beni Mazar207,194
- 3129 Qift191,964
- 3314 Al-Wasitah181,776
- 3348 Beni Muhammadiyat180,286
- 3713 Kawm Ombo162,984
- 3870 Kafr Saqr156,498
- 4275 Abu Huminus142,823
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-Wasitah 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-Wasitah 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