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El Mansura, 
Egypt
1,712,781 people lived in El Mansura in 2025. It is the 285th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th 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 El Mansura grew
For every 10 people in El Mansura in 1975, there were 41.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.2 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2000 and 2005.
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
El Mansura through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in El Mansura 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 El Mansura; 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, El Mansura covered 195 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 32 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.2 times its size, and its people are 4.1 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 100 people in Egypt in 2025, 1 lived in El Mansura, which is 1.7 million people.
How to read this: shrink Egypt to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in El Mansura; 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
- 281 Porto Alegre Brazil1,755,917
- 282 Slawi Indonesia1,733,437
- 283 Aligarh India1,729,663
- 284 Luoyang China1,727,744
- 285 El Mansura1,712,781
- 286 Vancouver Canada1,707,865
- 287 Dhulian India1,699,325
- 288 Johor Bahru Malaysia1,695,838
- 289 Mecca Saudi Arabia1,692,152
In Egypt, 2025
- 7 Cairo25,566,102
- 48 Alexandria7,266,957
- 104 Luxor4,188,023
- 239 Banha2,088,520
- 285 El Mansura1,712,781
- 356 Al Zaqaziq1,416,734
- 357 Asyut1,406,963
- 442 El Mahalla El Kubra1,156,501
- 461 Suhaj1,123,349
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for El Mansura 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 El Mansura 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