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Al Zaqaziq, 
Egypt
1,416,734 people lived in Al Zaqaziq in 2025. It is the 356th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Egypt.
Like every city on this site, Al Zaqaziq 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 Zaqaziq grew
Count 10 people in Al Zaqaziq in 1975 and the same count gives 41.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.3 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2015 and 2020.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Al Zaqaziq through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al Zaqaziq 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 Zaqaziq 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 Zaqaziq covered 166 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 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 6.6 times its size, and its people are 4.2 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 100 people in Egypt in 2025, 1 lived in Al Zaqaziq, which is 1.4 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Al Zaqaziq. 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
- 352 Dushanbe Tajikistan1,440,787
- 353 Valencia Venezuela1,435,894
- 354 Medina Saudi Arabia1,432,287
- 355 Aba Nigeria1,428,069
- 356 Al Zaqaziq1,416,734
- 357 Asyut1,406,963
- 358 Brussels Belgium1,406,499
- 359 Seattle United States1,403,495
- 360 Xuzhou China1,402,001
In Egypt, 2025
- 48 Alexandria7,266,957
- 104 Luxor4,188,023
- 239 Banha2,088,520
- 285 El Mansura1,712,781
- 356 Al Zaqaziq1,416,734
- 357 Asyut1,406,963
- 442 El Mahalla El Kubra1,156,501
- 461 Suhaj1,123,349
- 504 Tanta1,018,577
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 Zaqaziq 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 Zaqaziq 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