Of the ten million people in Egypt…

Of the ten million people in Egypt at the turn of the century, approximately two million live in towns and cities, and of those, five hundred thousand live in cities with a population of more than twenty thousand.

The population of Alexandria has grown as it has become the financial and commercial center of the cotton industry.

New towns like Az Zaqaziq and Port Said (Bur Said) on the Suez Canal are established.