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Dairut, 
Egypt
501,258 people lived in Dairut in 2025. It is the 1104th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 21st 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 Dairut grew
Where Dairut had 10 people in 1975, it had 94.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 749,639 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Dairut through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dairut in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 219 cities in Egypt in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Cairo. The ringed dot in colour is Dairut; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Dairut covered 92 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 8.9 times its size, and its people are 9.4 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, 4 lived in Dairut, which is 501,258 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 Dairut; 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
- 1100 Anqing China503,036
- 1101 Oaxaca de Juárez Mexico502,534
- 1102 Barnaul Russia502,491
- 1103 Lakhimpur India501,540
- 1104 Dairut501,258
- 1105 Ijebu-Ode Nigeria500,036
- 1106 Anshun China499,794
- 1107 Bahir Dar Ethiopia498,735
- 1108 Naberezhnye Chelny Russia498,625
In Egypt, 2025
- 897 Shibin Al-Kom605,913
- 949 Damanhur579,215
- 964 Suez567,866
- 976 Al Minya561,945
- 1104 Dairut501,258
- 1127 Aswan493,753
- 1150 Tahta482,194
- 1181 Faqous470,110
- 1214 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya457,678
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 Dairut 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 Dairut 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