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Al Qoddaba — UN urban centre

96,906

Al Qoddaba: 96,906 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,383 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2335; territory: Egypt (EGY). UN source workbook.

Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.

Source centroid: 30.9383, 30.809. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198553,117Estimate
199058,918Estimate
199564,941Estimate
200071,461Estimate
200579,065Estimate
201084,008Estimate
201590,489Estimate
202091,287Estimate
202596,906Estimate
2030111,107Projection
2035116,807Projection
2040122,642Projection
2045127,558Projection
2050133,562Projection

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