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Luxor, 
Egypt
4,188,023 people lived in Luxor in 2025. It is the 104th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd 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 Luxor'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 Luxor grew
For every 10 people in Luxor in 1975, there were 454.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 7.6 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes five million people between 2030 and 2035.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Luxor through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Luxor in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Egypt and its 219 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Cairo). Luxor is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Luxor covered 340 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 33 km² of it. That is 8 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 27.3 times its size, and its people are 45.4 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, 4 lived in Luxor, which is 4.2 million people.
How to read this: shrink Egypt to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Luxor; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 100 Jeddah Saudi Arabia4,284,080
- 101 Kuwait City Kuwait4,265,132
- 102 Medan Indonesia4,245,895
- 103 Bamako Mali4,244,881
- 104 Luxor4,188,023
- 105 Belo Horizonte Brazil4,162,814
- 106 Wenzhou China4,158,195
- 107 Sydney Australia4,150,917
- 108 Guadalajara Mexico4,135,440
In Egypt, 2025
- 7 Cairo25,566,102
- 48 Alexandria7,266,957
- 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
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 Luxor 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 Luxor 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