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Kafr Saqr, 
Egypt
156,498 people lived in Kafr Saqr in 2025. It is the 3870th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 77th 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 Kafr Saqr grew
For every 10 people in Kafr Saqr in 2000, there were 28.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 305,502 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
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 Saqr through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kafr Saqr 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). Kafr Saqr 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, Kafr Saqr covered 34 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.5 km² of it. That is 29 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 2.9 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, 1 lived in Kafr Saqr, which is 156,498 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 Saqr's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3823 Shufune Ethiopia158,225
- 3825 Musumba Democratic Republic of the Congo158,159
- 3846 ad-Damer Sudan157,497
- 3864 Debre Birhan Ethiopia156,788
- 3870 Kafr Saqr156,498
- 3871 Shahabad India156,497
- 3881 Bến Tre Vietnam156,097
- 3883 Madaoua Niger156,053
- 3886 Musanze Rwanda155,984
In Egypt, 2025
- 3129 Qift191,964
- 3314 Al-Wasitah181,776
- 3348 Beni Muhammadiyat180,286
- 3713 Kawm Ombo162,984
- 3870 Kafr Saqr156,498
- 4275 Abu Huminus142,823
- 4293 Amrit142,164
- 4864 Delingat125,765
- 5167 Kafr Ibrash118,945
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 Kafr Saqr are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Saqr 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