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Villages with enough people that locals would call them a proper town, but small enough that they rarely make the news. Ranked play starts here, since cities are too easy to be a real test.

In Egypt this set is spread across 14 different governorates, with Qalyubia home to the most of them (4).

How this category is defined

Place kinds on GuessTheDot are a practical grouping by population and place type for gameplay, not a legal or historical designation. A place can hold official city rights (or an old city charter) and still show up here as a village if it stayed small, and the other way around: this is a rough size ladder for guessing, not a statement about a place's official status.

Places in this set

24

Smallest population

138,987

Largest population

488,904

Median population

176,825

Two you might get asked about

Al-'Ubūr
138,987 inhabitants, Qalyubia
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Al Khuşūş
488,904 inhabitants, Qalyubia
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

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All 24 big villages in Egypt

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	governorate
Al Khuşūş	488,904	Qalyubia
Az-Zuhūr	266,381	Port Said
Qina	252,883	Qena
Al ‘Āshir min Ramaḑān	246,148	Sharqia
Ḩalwān	230,000	Cairo
Mallawī	212,628	Minya
Hurghada	207,132	Red Sea
Arīsh	199,243	North Sinai
Kafr ash Shaykh	194,569	Kafr el-Sheikh
Bilbeis	185,237	Sharqia
Banhā	182,254	Qalyubia
Idkū	177,152	Beheira
Marsá Maţrūḩ	176,498	Matruh
Al Maţarīyah	162,045	Dakahlia
Qalyub	156,363	Qalyubia
Al Ḩawāmidīyah	155,055	Giza
Abū Kabīr	154,466	Sharqia
Mīt Ghamr	153,754	Dakahlia
Akhmīm	151,430	Sohag
Girga	151,256	Sohag
Disūq	149,291	Kafr el-Sheikh
Aḍ-Ḍawāḥy	148,624	Port Said
Samālūţ	142,009	Minya
Al-'Ubūr	138,987	Qalyubia

Tips for this category

These places cluster around bigger cities more than you would expect: check the commuter belt of the nearest big city first.
Names ending in common local suffixes (think "-dorp", "-ham", "-ville") often hint at the region, not just the country.

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