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Damanhur, 
Egypt
579,215 people lived in Damanhur in 2025. It is the 949th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 18th largest in Egypt.
Like every city on this site, Damanhur is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Damanhur grew
Count 10 people in Damanhur in 1975 and the same count gives 35.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 978,849 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Damanhur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Damanhur 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 Damanhur; 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, Damanhur covered 48 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.3 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 3.6 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, 5 lived in Damanhur, which is 579,215 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Damanhur. 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
- 945 Nimule South Sudan581,444
- 946 Jaunpur India580,893
- 947 Tuxtla Gutiérrez Mexico580,878
- 948 Rasht Iran579,481
- 949 Damanhur579,215
- 950 Jashore Bangladesh578,026
- 951 Beihai China577,338
- 952 Binzhou China576,823
- 953 Ballia India576,284
In Egypt, 2025
- 719 Damietta743,111
- 786 Beni Suef684,414
- 886 Al Ismailiya612,046
- 897 Shibin Al-Kom605,913
- 949 Damanhur579,215
- 964 Suez567,866
- 976 Al Minya561,945
- 1104 Dairut501,258
- 1127 Aswan493,753
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 Damanhur 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 Damanhur 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