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Beni Suef, 
Egypt
684,414 people lived in Beni Suef in 2025. It is the 786th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 15th largest in Egypt.
Like every city on this site, Beni Suef 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 Beni Suef grew
Count 10 people in Beni Suef in 1975 and the same count gives 70 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 971,842 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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 Suef through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Beni Suef in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Beni Suef 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, Beni Suef covered 90 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.9 times its size, and its people are 7 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, 6 lived in Beni Suef, which is 684,414 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Beni Suef. 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
- 782 Sorocaba Brazil689,775
- 783 Zurich Switzerland689,657
- 784 Zhoukou China689,599
- 785 Fresno United States685,330
- 786 Beni Suef684,414
- 787 Okara Pakistan683,747
- 788 Akola India683,391
- 789 Vapi India682,459
- 790 Florianópolis Brazil682,065
In Egypt, 2025
- 615 Port Said849,767
- 620 Faiyum846,831
- 649 Mit Ghamr812,947
- 719 Damietta743,111
- 786 Beni Suef684,414
- 886 Al Ismailiya612,046
- 897 Shibin Al-Kom605,913
- 949 Damanhur579,215
- 964 Suez567,866
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 Suef 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 Beni Suef 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