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Mallawi, 
Egypt
401,471 people lived in Mallawi in 2025. It is the 1410th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 31st 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 Mallawi's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Mallawi grew
Count 10 people in Mallawi in 1975 and the same count gives 58.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 512,888 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Mallawi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mallawi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 219 cities in Egypt in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Cairo. The ringed dot in colour is Mallawi; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Mallawi covered 41 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.3 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.8 times its size, and its people are 5.8 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, 3 lived in Mallawi, which is 401,471 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Mallawi. 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
- 1406 Palakkad India401,965
- 1407 Dera Ismail Khan Pakistan401,839
- 1408 Tepic Mexico401,753
- 1409 Feni Bangladesh401,506
- 1410 Mallawi401,471
- 1411 Bhiwadi India401,290
- 1412 Sandakan Malaysia400,980
- 1413 Saki Nigeria400,875
- 1414 Modinagar India400,401
In Egypt, 2025
- 1306 Samadon428,126
- 1353 Kafr Al Sheikh415,494
- 1364 Sanhur412,618
- 1405 Minya Al-Qamh402,716
- 1410 Mallawi401,471
- 1431 Mit Habib397,104
- 1466 Birimbal al Quadima389,333
- 1469 Al Roda387,432
- 1497 Al-Asafra379,559
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 Mallawi 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 Mallawi 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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