Cairo
3,085 km²
Wuhan
8,569 km²
Egypt
People's Republic of China
Area Comparison
Cairo is 2.8x smaller than Wuhan
Population Comparison
Cairo has 1.2x fewer people than Wuhan
In terms of area, Wuhan is 2.8x the size of Cairo. Wuhan spans 8,569 km² (3,309 mi²) while Cairo covers 3,085 km² (1,191 mi²) — a difference of 5,484 km². You could fit Cairo inside Wuhan approximately 2 times.
To put Cairo's size in perspective, its area of 3,085 km² is about 1.2x the size of Luxembourg. Meanwhile, Wuhan at 8,569 km² is about 1.4x the size of Shanghai.
Picture Cairo another way: its area is large enough to fit about 432,000 American football fields, 52 times the area of Manhattan, or 29 times the area of Paris. For Wuhan, that's about 1,200,000 American football fields, 140 times the area of Manhattan, or 81 times the area of Paris.
Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate. It is home to more than 9.8 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world, and the Middle East. The Greater Cairo metropolitan area is one of the largest in the world by population with over 22 million people. Areas of what would become Cairo were inhabited from pre-dynastic and early-dynastic ancient Egypt c.
Known as "The City of a Thousand Minarets", Cairo covers 3,085 km² with a population of 10.1 million. The city was established in 969. Cairo is known for Pyramids of Giza, Great Sphinx, Egyptian Museum, among other attractions. The city's main transit system is the Cairo Metro.
Cairo is home to more than 9.8 million people and is part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa and the Arab world.
Wuhan is the capital of Hubei, China. With a population of 13,739,000, it is the most populous city in Hubei and the seventh-most-populous city in China. It is also one of China's nine national central cities.
Also known as "River City", Wuhan has an area of 8,569 km² and is home to 12.3 million people. Visitors come for Yellow Crane Tower, Yangtze River confluence, East Lake, and much more.
Wuhan houses 13.7 million residents, ranking as the seventh-most populous city in all of China.
Cairo has a population density of 3,274 people per km² — a moderately dense city. Wuhan, with 1,439 people per km², is a relatively spread-out city. Cairo is noticeably denser, packing 2.3 times more people per square kilometer.
Size Ratio
Cairo fits inside Wuhan ~2 times
Density Gap
Cairo is 2.3x more densely populated
Cairo covers 3,085 km². Cities with a similar urban footprint include Hanoi (3,359 km²), Karachi (3,527 km²), Lima (2,672 km²), Moscow (2,511 km²), or Cape Town (2,455 km²).
Wuhan covers 8,569 km². Cities with a similar urban footprint include Guangzhou (7,434 km²), Melbourne (9,993 km²), Xi'an (10,097 km²), Perth (6,417 km²), or Shanghai (6,341 km²).
The straight-line distance from Cairo to Wuhan is 7,765 km (4,825 miles), with an estimated flight time of ~9h 38m.
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