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Girga, 
Egypt
327,081 people lived in Girga in 2025. It is the 1756th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 45th 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 Girga's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Girga grew
Where Girga had 10 people in 1975, it had 49.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 417,823 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Girga through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Girga in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Girga 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, Girga covered 47 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.4 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 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, 3 lived in Girga, which is 327,081 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 Girga's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1752 Puri India328,196
- 1753 Balıkesir Türkiye328,080
- 1754 Tacna Peru327,582
- 1755 Baoshan China327,416
- 1756 Girga327,081
- 1757 Xiangtan China326,965
- 1758 Bhadohi India326,738
- 1759 Kuala Terengganu Malaysia326,615
- 1760 Ciudad Obregón Mexico326,226
In Egypt, 2025
- 1697 Sidfa336,659
- 1704 Garawan335,801
- 1746 Shiblanga328,820
- 1747 Abu Tig328,639
- 1756 Girga327,081
- 1832 Samalut313,324
- 1833 Girza312,801
- 1891 Sers Al Layyan303,302
- 1894 Al-Santa302,572
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 Girga 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 Girga 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