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Shibin Al-Kom, 
Egypt
605,913 people lived in Shibin Al-Kom in 2025. It is the 897th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 17th 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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shibin Al-Kom grew
Where Shibin Al-Kom had 10 people in 1975, it had 73.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.2 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2035 and 2040.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Shibin Al-Kom through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shibin Al-Kom 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). Shibin Al-Kom 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, Shibin Al-Kom covered 78 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 8.1 times its size, and its people are 7.3 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, 5 lived in Shibin Al-Kom, which is 605,913 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 Shibin Al-Kom's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 893 Chapainawabganj Bangladesh607,924
- 894 Zhaoqing China607,624
- 895 Bihar Sharif India607,401
- 896 Zhangjiakou China606,124
- 897 Shibin Al-Kom605,913
- 898 El Paso United States605,731
- 899 Anqiu China605,324
- 900 Ottawa Canada605,121
- 901 Tampico Mexico603,035
In Egypt, 2025
- 649 Mit Ghamr812,947
- 719 Damietta743,111
- 786 Beni Suef684,414
- 886 Al Ismailiya612,046
- 897 Shibin Al-Kom605,913
- 949 Damanhur579,215
- 964 Suez567,866
- 976 Al Minya561,945
- 1104 Dairut501,258
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 Shibin Al-Kom 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 Shibin Al-Kom 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