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El Senbellawein, 
Egypt
243,779 people lived in El Senbellawein in 2025. It is the 2398th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 58th largest in Egypt.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and El Senbellawein's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How El Senbellawein grew
For every 10 people in El Senbellawein in 1980, there were 44.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 549,918 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
El Senbellawein through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in El Senbellawein 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 Senbellawein; 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 Senbellawein covered 31 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.5 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 5.5 times its size, and its people are 4.5 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, 2 lived in El Senbellawein, which is 243,779 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 El Senbellawein's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2389 Kousseri Cameroon244,247
- 2393 Ash Sharai Saudi Arabia244,064
- 2394 Panabo Philippines244,050
- 2397 Qena243,801
- 2398 El Senbellawein243,779
- 2400 Sawai Madhopur India243,561
- 2401 Merauke Indonesia243,395
- 2404 Kamituga Democratic Republic of the Congo243,261
- 2405 Ho Ghana243,211
In Egypt, 2025
- 2310 Rosetta252,147
- 2325 Diyarb Nigm250,476
- 2358 Qus247,941
- 2397 Qena243,801
- 2398 El Senbellawein243,779
- 2489 Sinnuris235,984
- 2586 Hihya227,360
- 2600 Maghagha226,358
- 2615 Al Qusiya225,243
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 El Senbellawein are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Senbellawein 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