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Rosetta, 
Egypt
252,147 people lived in Rosetta in 2025. It is the 2310th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 54th 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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Rosetta grew
Where Rosetta had 10 people in 1975, it had 41.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 533,512 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Rosetta through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Rosetta in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Rosetta is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Egypt in 2025, 219 in all, led by Cairo, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Rosetta covered 42 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.6 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.6 times its size, and its people are 4.1 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Egypt
Its share of Egypt
Of every 1,000 people in Egypt in 2025, 2 lived in Rosetta, which is 252,147 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 Rosetta's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2300 Rabak Sudan253,166
- 2302 Hadejia Nigeria252,778
- 2303 Azare Nigeria252,755
- 2308 Shendi Sudan252,344
- 2310 Rosetta252,147
- 2312 Sunamganj Bangladesh251,822
- 2313 Tiaret Algeria251,576
- 2314 Vladimir Russia251,498
- 2315 Golmud China251,353
In Egypt, 2025
- 1946 Al-Mahmudiya297,143
- 2019 Nag Hammadi288,576
- 2118 Abu Kabir274,073
- 2205 Tima264,280
- 2310 Rosetta252,147
- 2325 Diyarb Nigm250,476
- 2358 Qus247,941
- 2397 Qena243,801
- 2398 El Senbellawein243,779
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 Rosetta 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 Rosetta 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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