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Maghagha, 
Egypt
226,358 people lived in Maghagha in 2025. It is the 2600th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 62nd 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 Maghagha grew
For every 10 people in Maghagha in 1985, there were 45.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 387,534 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. 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: 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
Maghagha through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Maghagha in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Maghagha 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, Maghagha covered 28 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.1 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people are 2.3 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, 2 lived in Maghagha, which is 226,358 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Maghagha. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2589 Kazipur Bangladesh227,234
- 2592 Charikar Afghanistan227,054
- 2598 Bahawalnagar Pakistan226,415
- 2599 Arua Uganda226,390
- 2600 Maghagha226,358
- 2605 Sevastopol Ukraine226,028
- 2609 MohammadAbad-e Rigan Iran225,871
- 2610 Harar Ethiopia225,677
- 2612 Naqamte Ethiopia225,503
In Egypt, 2025
- 2397 Qena243,801
- 2398 El Senbellawein243,779
- 2489 Sinnuris235,984
- 2586 Hihya227,360
- 2600 Maghagha226,358
- 2615 Al Qusiya225,243
- 2627 Manfalut224,667
- 2717 Dinjway217,913
- 2875 Beni Mazar207,194
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 Maghagha 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 Maghagha 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 →
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