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Urban Growth in Cairo 1965-98: The population of the Cairo
metropolitan area has increased from less than 6 million in 1965 when
this picture was taken, to more than 10 million in 1998 (United
Nations Population Division, World Urbanization Prospects, the 1999
revision). Population densities within the city are some of the
highest in the world and the urban area has doubled to more than 400
square km during that period. Extraordinary rates of population
growth are expected to continue, with a predicted population of
around 14 million by 2015. Photographs of Earth taken from early
space missions represent some of the earliest data on the state of
the world's major cities.
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