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Girza, 
Egypt
312,801 people lived in Girza in 2025. It is the 1833rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 47th 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 Girza grew
Count 10 people in Girza in 1985 and the same count gives 21.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 514,906 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, 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
Girza through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Girza in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Egypt and its 219 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Cairo). Girza is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Girza covered 87 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 2.2 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 Girza, which is 312,801 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 Girza's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1829 Raoping China313,705
- 1830 Gandhidham India313,691
- 1831 Karaganda Kazakhstan313,529
- 1832 Samalut313,324
- 1833 Girza312,801
- 1834 Uberaba Brazil312,745
- 1835 Lufeng China312,588
- 1836 Kebumen Indonesia312,542
- 1837 Bidar India312,534
In Egypt, 2025
- 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
- 1946 Al-Mahmudiya297,143
- 2019 Nag Hammadi288,576
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 Girza are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Girza 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