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Port Said, 
Egypt
849,767 people lived in Port Said in 2025. It is the 615th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th 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 Port Said's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Port Said grew
Where Port Said had 10 people in 1975, it had 30 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 991,154 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
Port Said through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Port Said 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). Port Said 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, Port Said covered 61 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 3 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 Port Said, which is 849,767 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 Port Said's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 611 Aguascalientes Mexico856,387
- 612 Jinzhou China854,575
- 613 Abbottabad Pakistan851,819
- 614 Haizhou District China850,645
- 615 Port Said849,767
- 616 Muzaffarnagar India849,004
- 617 Cúcuta Colombia848,408
- 618 Mérida Mexico847,166
- 619 Gujrat Pakistan846,968
In Egypt, 2025
- 357 Asyut1,406,963
- 442 El Mahalla El Kubra1,156,501
- 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
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 Port Said 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 Port Said 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