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Aswan, 
Egypt
493,753 people lived in Aswan in 2025. It is the 1127th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 22nd largest in Egypt.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Aswan's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Aswan grew
Where Aswan had 10 people in 1975, it had 31.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 832,642 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Aswan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Aswan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Aswan is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Egypt in 2025, 219 in all, led by Cairo, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Aswan covered 63 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 3.1 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Egypt
Its share of Egypt
Of every 1,000 people in Egypt in 2025, 4 lived in Aswan, which is 493,753 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Egypt, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Aswan's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1123 Karnal India494,241
- 1124 Himeji Japan494,064
- 1125 Siping China493,984
- 1126 Hapur India493,837
- 1127 Aswan493,753
- 1128 Hardoi India493,665
- 1129 Dezhou China493,272
- 1130 Bulawayo Zimbabwe492,771
- 1131 Ife Nigeria492,000
In Egypt, 2025
- 949 Damanhur579,215
- 964 Suez567,866
- 976 Al Minya561,945
- 1104 Dairut501,258
- 1127 Aswan493,753
- 1150 Tahta482,194
- 1181 Faqous470,110
- 1214 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya457,678
- 1268 Maragha440,011
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Aswan are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Aswan publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries