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Bilbeis, 
Egypt
353,541 people lived in Bilbeis in 2025. It is the 1616th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 40th 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 Bilbeis's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bilbeis grew
Where Bilbeis had 10 people in 1975, it had 49.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 720,979 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 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
Bilbeis through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bilbeis 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). Bilbeis 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, Bilbeis covered 59 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.2 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 7.7 times its size, and its people are 4 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, 3 lived in Bilbeis, which is 353,541 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Bilbeis. 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
- 1612 Luhansk Ukraine354,296
- 1613 Lili China354,151
- 1614 Burewala Pakistan354,057
- 1615 Kafr Al-Zaiyat354,037
- 1616 Bilbeis353,541
- 1617 Haifeng China353,473
- 1618 Oak Ridge United States353,212
- 1619 Kurukshetra India353,119
- 1620 Nam Định Vietnam353,044
In Egypt, 2025
- 1542 Al-Manshah370,283
- 1567 Dusuq366,123
- 1608 Balyana354,769
- 1615 Kafr Al-Zaiyat354,037
- 1616 Bilbeis353,541
- 1697 Sidfa336,659
- 1704 Garawan335,801
- 1746 Shiblanga328,820
- 1747 Abu Tig328,639
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 Bilbeis 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 Bilbeis 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