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Biggest Cities in Egypt by Year

For each year listed, name the 5 biggest cities in Egypt that year.
In some cases we can not determine the five largest cities. I have included all possible candidates in those cases
Some of these cities no longer exist (marked in red)
Sources for all of the population figures in the sticky comment
By urban area population
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2500 B.C.E.
Memphis
20,000
Heliopolis
10,000
Heracleopolis
5,000
Sais
5,000
Bubastis
4,000
Buto
4,000
 
 
1850 B.C.E.
Memphis
30,000
Sais
15,000
Thebes
15,000
Heliopolis
13,500
Heracleopolis
13,000
 
 
1250 B.C.E.
Pi-Ramesses
70,000
Thebes
70,000
Memphis
40,000
Sais
25,000
Heliopolis
20,000
Heracleopolis
20,000
Hermopolis
20,000
200 B.C.E.
Alexandria
200,000
Memphis
70,000
Djanet
30,000
Hermopolis
30,000
Sais
30,000
Thebes
30,000
 
 
1200
Cairo
200,000
Tinnis
125,000
Alexandria
50,000
Qus
50,000
Asyut
25,000
 
 
1300
Cairo
400,000
Damietta
108,000
Alexandria
65,000
Qus
50,000
Asyut
30,000
 
 
1900
Cairo
595,000
Alexandria
314,000
Tanta
56,000
Port Said
44,000
Asyut
42,000
1950
Cairo
2,494,000
Alexandria
1,037,000
Port Said
192,000
Tanta
150,000
Al-Mahallah al-Kubra
129,000
 
 
1980
Cairo
7,349,000
Alexandria
2,521,000
Al-Mahallah al-Kubra
315,000
Port Said
306,000
Tanta
302,000
 
 
2025
Cairo
23,074,000
Alexandria
5,807,000
Port Said
808,000
Suez
698,000
Mansoura
607,000
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