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Maragha, 
Egypt
440,011 people lived in Maragha in 2025. It is the 1268th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 26th 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 Maragha's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Maragha grew
Where Maragha had 10 people in 1975, it had 86.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 714,823 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Maragha through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Maragha 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 Maragha; 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, Maragha covered 105 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 25 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 11.1 times its size, and its people are 7.9 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, 4 lived in Maragha, which is 440,011 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Maragha. 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
- 1264 Chief Albert Luthuli Park South Africa441,204
- 1265 Zhanjiang China440,587
- 1266 Manizales Colombia440,407
- 1267 Gemena Democratic Republic of the Congo440,327
- 1268 Maragha440,011
- 1269 Tallinn Estonia439,526
- 1270 Dindigul India438,809
- 1271 Quelimane Mozambique438,554
- 1272 Buenaventura Colombia438,063
In Egypt, 2025
- 1127 Aswan493,753
- 1150 Tahta482,194
- 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
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 Maragha 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 Maragha 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