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Balyana, 
Egypt
354,769 people lived in Balyana in 2025. It is the 1608th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 38th 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 Balyana's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Balyana grew
Count 10 people in Balyana in 1985 and the same count gives 68.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 477,573 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: 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
Balyana through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Balyana 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). Balyana 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, Balyana covered 85 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 30 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 9.6 times its size, and its people are 6.8 times as many.
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, 3 lived in Balyana, which is 354,769 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 Balyana's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1604 Dhubri India355,592
- 1605 Fukuyama Japan355,352
- 1606 McAllen United States355,331
- 1607 Nandail Bangladesh354,872
- 1608 Balyana354,769
- 1609 Massawa Eritrea354,657
- 1610 Anápolis Brazil354,576
- 1611 Yongzhou China354,335
- 1612 Luhansk Ukraine354,296
In Egypt, 2025
- 1469 Al Roda387,432
- 1497 Al-Asafra379,559
- 1542 Al-Manshah370,283
- 1567 Dusuq366,123
- 1608 Balyana354,769
- 1615 Kafr Al-Zaiyat354,037
- 1616 Bilbeis353,541
- 1697 Sidfa336,659
- 1704 Garawan335,801
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 Balyana 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 Balyana 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