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Diyarb Nigm, 
Egypt
250,476 people lived in Diyarb Nigm in 2025. It is the 2325th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 55th largest in Egypt.
Like every city on this site, Diyarb Nigm is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Diyarb Nigm grew
Where Diyarb Nigm had 10 people in 1995, it had 41.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 708,940 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, 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
Diyarb Nigm through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Diyarb Nigm 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). Diyarb Nigm 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, Diyarb Nigm covered 51 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.1 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 5.1 times its size, and its people are 4.2 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Egypt
Its share of Egypt
Of every 1,000 people in Egypt in 2025, 2 lived in Diyarb Nigm, which is 250,476 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 Diyarb Nigm's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2320 Araria India251,001
- 2321 Rangunia Bangladesh250,564
- 2322 Kyzylorda Kazakhstan250,557
- 2324 La Romana Dominican Republic250,479
- 2325 Diyarb Nigm250,476
- 2327 Bukhara Uzbekistan250,377
- 2329 Sikandarabad India250,310
- 2331 Victoria Canada250,244
- 2334 Rehovot Israel249,925
In Egypt, 2025
- 2019 Nag Hammadi288,576
- 2118 Abu Kabir274,073
- 2205 Tima264,280
- 2310 Rosetta252,147
- 2325 Diyarb Nigm250,476
- 2358 Qus247,941
- 2397 Qena243,801
- 2398 El Senbellawein243,779
- 2489 Sinnuris235,984
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 Diyarb Nigm are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Diyarb Nigm 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 →
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