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Nag Hammadi, 
Egypt
288,576 people lived in Nag Hammadi in 2025. It is the 2019th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 51st largest in Egypt.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Nag Hammadi governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nag Hammadi grew
Where Nag Hammadi had 10 people in 1975, it had 8.6 in 2025, fewer than it started with.
On the UN's projection it will have 353,591 people in 2050.
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
Nag Hammadi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nag Hammadi 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 Nag Hammadi; 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, Nag Hammadi covered 60 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.2 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people have fallen by 14%.
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, 2 lived in Nag Hammadi, which is 288,576 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 Nag Hammadi's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2012 Kombolcha Ethiopia288,941
- 2013 Mayiladuthurai India288,923
- 2017 Huilai China288,590
- 2018 Weinan China288,582
- 2019 Nag Hammadi288,576
- 2020 Bratislava Slovakia288,533
- 2021 Bhiwani India288,360
- 2025 Timergara Pakistan287,866
- 2026 Manta Ecuador287,756
In Egypt, 2025
- 1833 Girza312,801
- 1891 Sers Al Layyan303,302
- 1894 Al-Santa302,572
- 1946 Al-Mahmudiya297,143
- 2019 Nag Hammadi288,576
- 2118 Abu Kabir274,073
- 2205 Tima264,280
- 2310 Rosetta252,147
- 2325 Diyarb Nigm250,476
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Nag Hammadi 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 Nag Hammadi 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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