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Egypt: 27 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 27 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-EGY-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO EGY / EGStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
27
first-level units
392
units at 2 levels
114,244,207
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Egypt by province, state and territory

27 first-level units and 365 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 27 first-level units of Egypt
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Egypt

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
27 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · each with its own page
ADM2
365 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
03Units

All 27 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Al Sharqia Governorate EG-SHR 8,156,251 8,160,667 4,800 1,699 7.1% 4,956,936
Alexandria Governorate EG-ALX 5,740,355 5,319,566 2,588 2,218 5% 1,574,975
Aswan Governorate EG-ASN 1,511,521 1,802,352 56,556 27 1.3% 0
Asyut Governorate EG-AST 4,469,445 4,958,916 13,958 320 3.9% 0
Beheira Governorate EG-BH 6,872,968 7,468,999 10,994 625 6% 3,797,558
Beni Suef Governorate EG-BNS 3,483,938 3,976,292 11,021 316 3% 0
Cairo Governorate EG-C 8,602,982 8,494,819 3,005 2,863 7.5% 0
Dakahlia Governorate EG-DK 8,223,256 8,708,619 4,276 1,923 7.2% 7,454,180
Damietta Governorate EG-DT 1,686,131 1,960,299 1,018 1,656 1.5% 1,375,610
Faiyum Governorate EG-FYM 4,041,291 4,644,326 5,695 710 3.5% 612,522
Gharbiyya Governorate EG-GH 5,630,783 5,799,521 1,847 3,049 4.9% 5,035,102
Giza Governorate EG-GZ 11,976,972 11,641,826 38,237 313 10.5% 60,361
Ismailia Governorate EG-IS 1,278,592 1,312,964 4,339 295 1.1% 437,989
Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate EG-KFS 4,229,674 4,540,038 4,211 1,004 3.7% 3,568,172
Luxor Governate EG-LX 6,898,589 2,018,997 1,894 3,642 6% 0
Matrouh Governorate EG-MT 520,150 594,734 154,334 3 0.5% 64,438
Minya Governate EG-MN 6,211,039 6,942,774 29,149 213 5.4% 0
Monufia Governorate EG-MNF 4,919,129 5,194,035 2,065 2,382 4.3% 1,489,199
New Valley Governorate EG-WAD 2,062,832 2,439,991 440,016 5 1.8% 447
North Sinai Governorate EG-SIN 524,105 553,087 27,649 19 0.5% 68,594
Port Said Governorate EG-PTS 937,276 955,269 1,402 669 0.8% 421,743
Qalyubia Governorate EG-KB 8,538,503 8,597,128 1,179 7,242 7.5% 14,738
Qena Governorate EG-KN 1,768,980 3,092,513 12,343 143 1.5% 0
Red Sea Governorate EG-BA 263,335 284,409 120,825 2 0.2% 54,360
Sohag Governorate EG-SHG 4,841,615 5,467,787 10,191 475 4.2% 0
South Sinai Governorate EG-JS 134,025 94,473 29,185 5 0.1% 8,744
Suez Governorate EG-SUZ 720,470 869,519 9,042 80 0.6% 226,086
04Umngcipheko

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Egypt publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen EGY ADM1, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen EGY ADM2, source: OCHA ROMENA/HDX, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Amazwe
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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