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Port Said

Port Said · Egypt
City population
780,515
#5
in Egypt
#1
in Port Said
#709
worldwide
CairoPort Said
31.265, 32.302 · 167 km from Cairo
City population
780,515
Within the city boundary, not a metro area
Rank in Egypt
#5
of 235 cities of 15,000+
World rank
#709
of 31,365 cities listed
Share of Egypt
0.7%
of the national population

About Port Said

Three cities lie within 4 km: populations of 81,591, 148,624, and 266,381. The city proper holds 780,515 people, ranking fifth among Egypt's 235 listed cities and accounting for 0.7% of the national population. At 16 m elevation and 167 km from Cairo, it anchors the Port Said region.

This summary is AI-generated from the figures on this page. The figures themselves come from the sources cited beside each value.

Position in Egypt
#5of 235
LargestSmallest
Position in Port Said
#1of 4
LargestSmallest

Key Facts

Country
Egypt
Region
Port Said
Rank in region
#1of 4
Distance to capital
167 km
to Cairo
Elevation
16 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Africa/Cairo
Coordinates
31.265, 32.302
Record updated
2026-02-23
Entry edited, not measured

City population, GeoNames. GeoNames publishes no year for its population figures, so “record updated” is when the entry was last edited — not the date the population was measured. Elevation is modelled from a digital elevation model rather than surveyed, so it is approximate.

Nearby Cities

All 235 in Egypt

Closest listed cities by great-circle distance from the city centre.

3KMBūr Fu’ād82K people3KMAḍ-Ḍawāḥy149K people4KMAz-Zuhūr266K people27KMAl Maţarīyah162K people37KMAl Manzalah127K people

Compared with the World's Largest Cities

City-proper population against the fifteen largest cities in the dataset.

  1. Shanghai24.9M
  2. Beijing19M
  3. Shenzhen17.5M
  4. Guangzhou16.1M
  5. Kinshasa16M
  6. Istanbul15.7M
  7. Lagos15.4M
  8. Ho Chi Minh City14M
  9. Chengdu13.6M
  10. Lahore13M
  11. Mumbai12.7M
  12. São Paulo12.4M
  13. Mexico City12.3M
  14. Karachi11.6M
  15. Tianjin11.1M
  16. Port Said781K
City-proper figures only. Administrative boundaries differ between countries, so these are not directly comparable to metropolitan-area estimates.
Port Said compared with the fifteen largest cities
NameCity population
Shanghai24.9M
Beijing19M
Shenzhen17.5M
Guangzhou16.1M
Kinshasa16M
Istanbul15.7M
Lagos15.4M
Ho Chi Minh City14M
Chengdu13.6M
Lahore13M
Mumbai12.7M
São Paulo12.4M
Mexico City12.3M
Karachi11.6M
Tianjin11.1M
Port Said781K

Port Said Population FAQ

What is the population of Port Said?

Port Said has a city population of 780,515. That is the population within the city's own boundary, not its wider metropolitan area. City population, GeoNames.

Where is Port Said?

Port Said is in Port Said, Egypt, 167 km from the capital, Cairo. Its coordinates are 31.265, 32.302.

How big is Port Said compared with other cities in Egypt?

It is the 5th largest of the 235 cities of 15,000 or more listed in Egypt, holding 0.7% of the national population.

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