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Amrit, 
Egypt
142,164 people lived in Amrit in 2025. It is the 4293rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 87th 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 Amrit's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Amrit grew
Where Amrit had 10 people in 2020, it had 11.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 308,547 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2020, 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
Amrit through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Amrit in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Amrit 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, Amrit covered 41 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.9 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 2020, its built-up land has grown by 40%, and its people have grown by 18%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Egypt
Its share of Egypt
Of every 1,000 people in Egypt in 2025, 1 lived in Amrit, which is 142,164 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 Amrit's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 4208 Bontang Indonesia145,118
- 4221 Buligenyi Uganda144,692
- 4275 Abu Huminus142,823
- 4282 Kribi Cameroon142,534
- 4293 Amrit142,164
- 4302 Kapiri Mposhi Zambia141,802
- 4305 Buulo Mareer Somalia141,522
- 4306 Leku Ethiopia141,486
- 4307 Lucapa Angola141,466
In Egypt, 2025
- 3348 Beni Muhammadiyat180,286
- 3713 Kawm Ombo162,984
- 3870 Kafr Saqr156,498
- 4275 Abu Huminus142,823
- 4293 Amrit142,164
- 4864 Delingat125,765
- 5167 Kafr Ibrash118,945
- 7767 Mutubis80,283
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 Amrit are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2020 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 Amrit 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