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According to an estimate based on United Nations projections, the area had a population of 22,183,000 in 2023. [2] In 2012, when the area's population was estimated at 20.5 million, the population density within Cairo Governorate was estimated at 45,000 per square kilometer (117,00 per square mile). [10]
Demographics of Egypt. 1.4% (2023est.) Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East, and the fourth-most populous on the African continent, after Nigeria, Ethiopia and Democratic Republic of the Congo. [ 1 ][ 2 ] About 95% [ 3 ] of the country's 104 million people (July 2023) [ 4 ] live along the banks of the Nile and in the Nile Delta ...
Population history of Egypt. Population growth in Egypt from 5000 BCE to 2023. Egypt has a long and involved demographic history. This is partly due to the territory's geographical location at the crossroads of several major cultural areas: North Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and Sub-Saharan Africa.
List of towns and villages in Egypt. Subdivisions of Egypt. Geography of Egypt. Climate of Egypt. List of historical capitals of Egypt. List of urban areas in Africa by population. List of largest cities in the Arab world. Lists of cities in Asia.
The population of the Arab world as estimated in 2023 was 464.68 million inhabitants, [ 1 ] but no exact figures of the annual population growth, fertility rate, or mortality rate are known to exist. Most of the Arabs population is concentrated in and around major urban areas. [citation needed]
Cairo, Egypt is the third largest city in Africa and the largest one in the Arab world. Riverside of Giza, a mega-suburb of Cairo and the second-largest city in Egypt with over 9 million inhabitants. Oceanside of Luanda, the Angolan metropolis and a major hub for Africa's fossil fuel industries.
The Cairo Geniza is an accumulation of almost 200,000 Jewish manuscripts that were found in the genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue (built 882) of Fustat, Egypt (now Old Cairo), the Basatin cemetery east of Old Cairo, and a number of old documents that were bought in Cairo in the later 19th century. These documents were written from about 870 to ...
At the municipal-level are markaz, kism, police-administered areas, and new cities. Generally, rural areas are divided into markaz whereas urban areas are divided into kism. As of 2013, there were 351 subdivisions, of which 177 were kism, 162 markaz, 9 new cities, and 3 police-administered areas.