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Mit Ghamr, 
Egypt
812,947 people lived in Mit Ghamr in 2025. It is the 649th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 13th 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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Mit Ghamr grew
Where Mit Ghamr had 10 people in 1975, it had 62.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2035 and 2040.
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
Mit Ghamr through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mit Ghamr 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). Mit Ghamr 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, Mit Ghamr covered 118 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.2 times its size, and its people are 6.2 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, 7 lived in Mit Ghamr, which is 812,947 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Mit Ghamr. 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
- 645 Zakho Iraq814,526
- 646 Munger India814,325
- 647 Nasiriyah Iraq813,799
- 648 Al Mushahidah Iraq813,506
- 649 Mit Ghamr812,947
- 650 Sukkur Pakistan812,885
- 651 Barquisimeto Venezuela812,384
- 652 Quzhou China811,735
- 653 Detroit United States809,894
In Egypt, 2025
- 461 Suhaj1,123,349
- 504 Tanta1,018,577
- 615 Port Said849,767
- 620 Faiyum846,831
- 649 Mit Ghamr812,947
- 719 Damietta743,111
- 786 Beni Suef684,414
- 886 Al Ismailiya612,046
- 897 Shibin Al-Kom605,913
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 Mit Ghamr 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 Mit Ghamr 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