ATLAS · MEGA-CITIES · EGYPT
Cairo
Cairo is the one mega-city of Egypt — the only urban area in the country to pass five million people. The largest, Cairo, holds an estimated 11,893,000people across its urban agglomeration — a giant of over ten million. From Natural Earth, snapshot 2026-06-24.
MEGA-CITYCairo
POPULATION~11,893,000
NUMBER OF MEGA-CITIES1
The mega-city
Cairo~11,893,000 people
In context
Where Cairosits on the world’s scale of mega-cities — from the cities just over five million to the singular supergiant above twenty.
20M+
15–20M
10–15MCairo is here
7–10M
5–7M
Mega-cities of other countries
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