Banha — UN urban centre
Banha: 2,088,520 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #239 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4398; 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: 30.4449, 31.1694. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 124,026 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 146,955 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 245,460 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 360,862 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 569,938 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 795,355 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,029,830 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,272,822 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,482,570 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,794,568 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,088,520 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,419,127 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,850,368 | Projection |
| 2040 | 3,137,275 | Projection |
| 2045 | 3,440,399 | Projection |
| 2050 | 3,671,135 | Projection |
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