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Minya Al-Qamh, 
Egypt
402,716 people lived in Minya Al-Qamh in 2025. It is the 1405th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 30th 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 Minya Al-Qamh's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Minya Al-Qamh grew
Where Minya Al-Qamh had 10 people in 1980, it had 73.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 661,863 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Minya Al-Qamh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Minya Al-Qamh 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). Minya Al-Qamh 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, Minya Al-Qamh covered 65 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.9 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 8.9 times its size, and its people are 7.4 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Egypt
Its share of Egypt
Of every 1,000 people in Egypt in 2025, 3 lived in Minya Al-Qamh, which is 402,716 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 Minya Al-Qamh's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1401 Asaba Nigeria403,859
- 1402 Joharabad Pakistan403,179
- 1403 Tumakuru India403,109
- 1404 Bharatpur India402,987
- 1405 Minya Al-Qamh402,716
- 1406 Palakkad India401,965
- 1407 Dera Ismail Khan Pakistan401,839
- 1408 Tepic Mexico401,753
- 1409 Feni Bangladesh401,506
In Egypt, 2025
- 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
- 1466 Birimbal al Quadima389,333
- 1469 Al Roda387,432
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 Minya Al-Qamh are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Minya Al-Qamh 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