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Samadon, 
Egypt
428,126 people lived in Samadon in 2025. It is the 1306th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 27th largest in Egypt.
Like every city on this site, Samadon is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Samadon grew
Where Samadon had 10 people in 1990, it had 83.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 980,131 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Samadon through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Samadon 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). Samadon 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, Samadon covered 108 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 12.6 times its size, and its people are 6.8 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, 4 lived in Samadon, which is 428,126 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Samadon. 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
- 1302 Providence United States429,694
- 1303 Santiago de Cuba Cuba429,537
- 1304 Cheonan-si South Korea428,378
- 1305 Huidong China428,137
- 1306 Samadon428,126
- 1307 Khansahib India428,041
- 1308 Coventry United Kingdom427,678
- 1309 Wiesbaden Germany427,270
- 1310 Burao Somalia427,013
In Egypt, 2025
- 1150 Tahta482,194
- 1181 Faqous470,110
- 1214 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya457,678
- 1268 Maragha440,011
- 1306 Samadon428,126
- 1353 Kafr Al Sheikh415,494
- 1364 Sanhur412,618
- 1405 Minya Al-Qamh402,716
- 1410 Mallawi401,471
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 Samadon are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Samadon 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