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Damietta, 
Egypt
743,111 people lived in Damietta in 2025. It is the 719th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th largest in Egypt.
Like every city on this site, Damietta 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 Damietta grew
Count 10 people in Damietta in 1975 and the same count gives 42 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 965,051 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Damietta through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Damietta in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Damietta 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, Damietta covered 104 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 25 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.4 times its size, and its people are 4.2 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, 6 lived in Damietta, which is 743,111 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 Damietta's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 715 Mersin Türkiye750,396
- 716 Thessaloniki Greece749,840
- 717 Dortmund Germany748,106
- 718 Yichun China745,754
- 719 Damietta743,111
- 720 La Plata Argentina742,952
- 721 Bilbao Spain741,795
- 722 Zinder Niger740,218
- 723 Şanlıurfa Türkiye739,807
In Egypt, 2025
- 504 Tanta1,018,577
- 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
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 Damietta 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 Damietta 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