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Shiblanga, 
Egypt
328,820 people lived in Shiblanga in 2025. It is the 1746th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 43rd largest in Egypt.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Shiblanga governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
The UN writes its name شبلنجة; “Shiblanga” is our romanization.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shiblanga grew
Count 10 people in Shiblanga in 2005 and the same count gives 31.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 708,571 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Shiblanga through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shiblanga 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 Shiblanga; 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, Shiblanga covered 72 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 3.1 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, 3 lived in Shiblanga, which is 328,820 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 Shiblanga's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1742 Narmashir Iran329,526
- 1743 Greater Noida India329,385
- 1744 Faridpur Bangladesh329,383
- 1745 Kumba Cameroon329,340
- 1746 Shiblanga328,820
- 1747 Abu Tig328,639
- 1748 Shizuoka Japan328,613
- 1749 Shangyu District China328,545
- 1750 Ya'an China328,287
In Egypt, 2025
- 1615 Kafr Al-Zaiyat354,037
- 1616 Bilbeis353,541
- 1697 Sidfa336,659
- 1704 Garawan335,801
- 1746 Shiblanga328,820
- 1747 Abu Tig328,639
- 1756 Girga327,081
- 1832 Samalut313,324
- 1833 Girza312,801
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 Shiblanga are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Shiblanga 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