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Samalut, 
Egypt
313,324 people lived in Samalut in 2025. It is the 1832nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 46th largest in Egypt.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Samalut 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 Samalut grew
Count 10 people in Samalut in 1975 and the same count gives 60.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 611,833 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Samalut through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Samalut 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). Samalut 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, Samalut covered 46 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.2 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.8 times its size, and its people are 4.5 times as many.
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, 3 lived in Samalut, which is 313,324 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 Samalut's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1828 Kodarma India313,949
- 1829 Raoping China313,705
- 1830 Gandhidham India313,691
- 1831 Karaganda Kazakhstan313,529
- 1832 Samalut313,324
- 1833 Girza312,801
- 1834 Uberaba Brazil312,745
- 1835 Lufeng China312,588
- 1836 Kebumen Indonesia312,542
In Egypt, 2025
- 1704 Garawan335,801
- 1746 Shiblanga328,820
- 1747 Abu Tig328,639
- 1756 Girga327,081
- 1832 Samalut313,324
- 1833 Girza312,801
- 1891 Sers Al Layyan303,302
- 1894 Al-Santa302,572
- 1946 Al-Mahmudiya297,143
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 Samalut 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 Samalut 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