The map and graph illustrate the remarkable and dual growth experienced by the Egyptian city of Alexandria across the period from 1840 to 1980.
Overall, the data highlights a clear pattern a vast physical expansion of the urban area, closely matching the accelerating rate of population growth, which was most explosive in the later decades of the period.
The city Alexandria growed continuous and extensive. Since 1840, it only tooked a small area of 4km. It size went up steadily. By 1980, the city has expand to 100km, which is 25 times more bigger. This expansion stretch the city along the Mediterranean coast.
In parallel, the city’s population followed a trajectory of increasingly rapid growth. Initially, the growth was slow: the population started at less than 0.5 million inhabitants in 1840 and reached approximately 1 million around 1920. However, after 1920, the pace sharply accelerated. The number of inhabitants climbed rapidly to reach approximately 2 million by 1960. This trend continued steeply, peaking at around 3 million inhabitants by 1980, demonstrating that the most significant demographic increase occurred in the final six decades of the period shown.