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Tanta, 
Egypt
1,018,577 people lived in Tanta in 2025. It is the 504th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th 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 Tanta's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tanta grew
For every 10 people in Tanta in 1975, there were 26.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2020 and 2025.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Tanta through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tanta in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Tanta 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, Tanta covered 81 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 2.6 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, 9 lived in Tanta, which is 1.0 million 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 Tanta's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 500 Rotterdam Netherlands1,023,590
- 501 Karbala Iraq1,022,893
- 502 Marrakesh Morocco1,021,530
- 503 Otite Nigeria1,020,218
- 504 Tanta1,018,577
- 505 Luohe China1,018,295
- 506 Binhai New Area China1,017,230
- 507 Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates1,016,460
- 508 Hải Phòng Vietnam1,015,494
In Egypt, 2025
- 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
- 719 Damietta743,111
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 Tanta 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 Tanta 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