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Faqous, 
Egypt
470,110 people lived in Faqous in 2025. It is the 1181st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 24th largest in Egypt.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Faqous governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Faqous grew
Where Faqous had 10 people in 1975, it had 71.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 790,746 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 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
Faqous through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Faqous in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Faqous 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, Faqous covered 82 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 8.1 times its size, and its people are 7.2 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, 4 lived in Faqous, which is 470,110 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 Faqous's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1177 Piura Peru471,521
- 1178 Chuxiong China471,251
- 1179 Huancayo Peru470,685
- 1180 Kemerovo Russia470,175
- 1181 Faqous470,110
- 1182 Cox's Bazar Bangladesh470,100
- 1183 Sitapur India469,750
- 1184 Lüliang China469,647
- 1185 Tétouan Morocco469,642
In Egypt, 2025
- 976 Al Minya561,945
- 1104 Dairut501,258
- 1127 Aswan493,753
- 1150 Tahta482,194
- 1181 Faqous470,110
- 1214 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya457,678
- 1268 Maragha440,011
- 1306 Samadon428,126
- 1353 Kafr Al Sheikh415,494
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Faqous 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 Faqous 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