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Qift, 
Egypt
191,964 people lived in Qift in 2025. It is the 3129th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 69th largest in Egypt.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Qift governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Qift grew
Count 10 people in Qift in 1975 and the same count gives 8 in 2025 — the city lost people.
On the UN's projection it will have 378,154 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040.
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
Qift through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Qift 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 Qift; 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, Qift covered 55 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.3 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people have fallen by 20%.
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 Qift, which is 191,964 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Qift. 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
- 3080 Fayzabad Afghanistan195,148
- 3094 Kinzao Democratic Republic of the Congo193,973
- 3121 Musoma Tanzania192,622
- 3127 Nyunzu Democratic Republic of the Congo192,205
- 3129 Qift191,964
- 3134 Mocuba Mozambique191,635
- 3150 Al `Udayn Yemen190,661
- 3153 Toraghundi Afghanistan190,543
- 3154 Mokolo Cameroon190,418
In Egypt, 2025
- 2615 Al Qusiya225,243
- 2627 Manfalut224,667
- 2717 Dinjway217,913
- 2875 Beni Mazar207,194
- 3129 Qift191,964
- 3314 Al-Wasitah181,776
- 3348 Beni Muhammadiyat180,286
- 3713 Kawm Ombo162,984
- 3870 Kafr Saqr156,498
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 Qift 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 Qift 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