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Birimbal al Quadima, 
Egypt
389,333 people lived in Birimbal al Quadima in 2025. It is the 1466th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 33rd largest in Egypt.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Birimbal al Quadima grew
Count 10 people in Birimbal al Quadima in 1990 and the same count gives 76.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 517,721 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, 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
Birimbal al Quadima through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Birimbal al Quadima in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Birimbal al Quadima 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, Birimbal al Quadima covered 68 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 10 times its size, and its people are 7.7 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 Birimbal al Quadima, which is 389,333 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 Birimbal al Quadima's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1462 Hawrah Yemen389,641
- 1463 Tamkuhi Raj India389,533
- 1464 Iseyin Nigeria389,526
- 1465 Phuket Thailand389,376
- 1466 Birimbal al Quadima389,333
- 1467 Pishva Iran388,154
- 1468 Ulyanovsk Russia387,698
- 1469 Al Roda387,432
- 1470 Ganja Azerbaijan386,822
In Egypt, 2025
- 1364 Sanhur412,618
- 1405 Minya Al-Qamh402,716
- 1410 Mallawi401,471
- 1431 Mit Habib397,104
- 1466 Birimbal al Quadima389,333
- 1469 Al Roda387,432
- 1497 Al-Asafra379,559
- 1542 Al-Manshah370,283
- 1567 Dusuq366,123
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 Birimbal al Quadima are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Birimbal al Quadima 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