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Kafr Al Sheikh, 
Egypt
415,494 people lived in Kafr Al Sheikh in 2025. It is the 1353rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 28th largest in Egypt.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kafr Al Sheikh 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 Kafr Al Sheikh grew
Where Kafr Al Sheikh had 10 people in 1975, it had 37.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 661,642 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: 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
Kafr Al Sheikh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kafr Al Sheikh in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kafr Al Sheikh 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, Kafr Al Sheikh covered 42 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.3 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 3.8 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, 4 lived in Kafr Al Sheikh, which is 415,494 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 Kafr Al Sheikh's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1349 Uvira Democratic Republic of the Congo416,523
- 1350 Lishui China416,469
- 1351 Aktobe Kazakhstan416,455
- 1352 Yixing China415,587
- 1353 Kafr Al Sheikh415,494
- 1354 Fuyang China415,492
- 1355 Moçâmedes Angola415,361
- 1356 Escondido United States415,167
- 1357 Batangas City Philippines415,103
In Egypt, 2025
- 1181 Faqous470,110
- 1214 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya457,678
- 1268 Maragha440,011
- 1306 Samadon428,126
- 1353 Kafr Al Sheikh415,494
- 1364 Sanhur412,618
- 1405 Minya Al-Qamh402,716
- 1410 Mallawi401,471
- 1431 Mit Habib397,104
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 Kafr Al Sheikh 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 Kafr Al Sheikh 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