El Mahalla El Kubra — UN urban centre
El Mahalla El Kubra: 1,156,501 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #442 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3993; 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: 30.9669, 31.177. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 385,886 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 505,187 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 576,991 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 629,912 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 678,632 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 749,491 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 816,163 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 896,120 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 986,013 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,066,560 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,156,501 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,268,785 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,388,770 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,514,271 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,585,601 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,650,512 | Projection |
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