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Beni Mazar, 
Egypt
207,194 people lived in Beni Mazar in 2025. It is the 2875th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 66th largest in Egypt.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Beni Mazar governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Beni Mazar grew
Count 10 people in Beni Mazar in 1980 and the same count gives 40.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 422,899 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Beni Mazar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Beni Mazar 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). Beni Mazar 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, Beni Mazar covered 25 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.9 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 3.9 times its size, and its people are 4.1 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 1,000 people in Egypt in 2025, 2 lived in Beni Mazar, which is 207,194 people.
How to read this: shrink Egypt to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Beni Mazar; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2859 `Ar`ar Saudi Arabia208,320
- 2861 Uromi Nigeria208,157
- 2864 Kulaura Bangladesh208,075
- 2869 Mellit Sudan207,693
- 2875 Beni Mazar207,194
- 2888 Nablus Palestine206,378
- 2890 Pampore India206,302
- 2894 Suq al Shyukh Iraq206,015
- 2897 Luena Democratic Republic of the Congo205,691
In Egypt, 2025
- 2600 Maghagha226,358
- 2615 Al Qusiya225,243
- 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
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 Beni Mazar are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Beni Mazar 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