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Garawan, 
Egypt
335,801 people lived in Garawan in 2025. It is the 1704th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 42nd 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 Garawan grew
For every 10 people in Garawan in 2005, there were 26.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 712,700 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, 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
Garawan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Garawan 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 Garawan; 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, Garawan covered 79 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.7 km² of it. That is 29 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 2.6 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, 3 lived in Garawan, which is 335,801 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 Garawan's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1700 Ningguo China336,274
- 1701 Pupri India336,223
- 1702 Shouguang China336,017
- 1703 Tanur India335,953
- 1704 Garawan335,801
- 1705 Sri Ganganagar India335,747
- 1706 Duri Indonesia335,728
- 1707 Indramayu Indonesia335,572
- 1708 Bonny Nigeria335,542
In Egypt, 2025
- 1608 Balyana354,769
- 1615 Kafr Al-Zaiyat354,037
- 1616 Bilbeis353,541
- 1697 Sidfa336,659
- 1704 Garawan335,801
- 1746 Shiblanga328,820
- 1747 Abu Tig328,639
- 1756 Girga327,081
- 1832 Samalut313,324
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 Garawan are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Garawan 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