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Tahta, 
Egypt
482,194 people lived in Tahta in 2025. It is the 1150th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 23rd largest in Egypt.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Tahta's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tahta grew
For every 10 people in Tahta in 1975, there were 76.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 727,469 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Tahta through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tahta in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Tahta is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Egypt in 2025, 219 in all, led by Cairo, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Tahta covered 75 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.8 times its size, and its people are 7.7 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, 4 lived in Tahta, which is 482,194 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Tahta. 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
- 1146 Dire Dawa Ethiopia483,674
- 1147 Huzhou China483,361
- 1148 Yar Hussain Pakistan483,239
- 1149 Cuenca Ecuador482,272
- 1150 Tahta482,194
- 1151 At Ta'if Saudi Arabia481,818
- 1152 Villahermosa Mexico481,525
- 1153 Rizhao China481,315
- 1154 Siuri India480,595
In Egypt, 2025
- 964 Suez567,866
- 976 Al Minya561,945
- 1104 Dairut501,258
- 1127 Aswan493,753
- 1150 Tahta482,194
- 1181 Faqous470,110
- 1214 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya457,678
- 1268 Maragha440,011
- 1306 Samadon428,126
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 Tahta 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 Tahta 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