Topics
Suhaj, 
Egypt
1,123,349 people lived in Suhaj in 2025. It is the 461st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th 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 Suhaj grew
Count 10 people in Suhaj in 1975 and the same count gives 50 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.5 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Suhaj through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Suhaj 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 Suhaj; 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, Suhaj covered 178 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 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, 9 lived in Suhaj, which is 1.1 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Suhaj. 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
- 457 Sekondi-Takoradi Ghana1,127,436
- 458 Srinagar India1,126,638
- 459 Cologne Germany1,125,292
- 460 Bobo-Dioulasso Burkina Faso1,125,023
- 461 Suhaj1,123,349
- 462 Auckland New Zealand1,123,094
- 463 Belgrade Serbia1,121,410
- 464 Enugu Nigeria1,115,303
- 465 Berhampore India1,109,144
In Egypt, 2025
- 285 El Mansura1,712,781
- 356 Al Zaqaziq1,416,734
- 357 Asyut1,406,963
- 442 El Mahalla El Kubra1,156,501
- 461 Suhaj1,123,349
- 504 Tanta1,018,577
- 615 Port Said849,767
- 620 Faiyum846,831
- 649 Mit Ghamr812,947
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 Suhaj 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 Suhaj 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