Topics
Asyut, 
Egypt
1,406,963 people lived in Asyut in 2025. It is the 357th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th 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 Asyut's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Asyut grew
Where Asyut had 10 people in 1975, it had 42.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.0 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2010 and 2015.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Asyut through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Asyut in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Asyut 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, Asyut covered 185 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 27 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 times its size, and its people are 4.2 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Egypt
Its share of Egypt
Of every 100 people in Egypt in 2025, 1 lived in Asyut, which is 1.4 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Asyut. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 353 Valencia Venezuela1,435,894
- 354 Medina Saudi Arabia1,432,287
- 355 Aba Nigeria1,428,069
- 356 Al Zaqaziq1,416,734
- 357 Asyut1,406,963
- 358 Brussels Belgium1,406,499
- 359 Seattle United States1,403,495
- 360 Xuzhou China1,402,001
- 361 Niamey Niger1,401,149
In Egypt, 2025
- 104 Luxor4,188,023
- 239 Banha2,088,520
- 285 El Mansura1,712,781
- 356 Al Zaqaziq1,416,734
- 357 Asyut1,406,963
- 442 El Mahalla El Kubra1,156,501
- 461 Suhaj1,123,349
- 504 Tanta1,018,577
- 615 Port Said849,767
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Asyut 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 Asyut 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