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Qena, 
Egypt
243,801 people lived in Qena in 2025. It is the 2397th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 57th largest in Egypt.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Qena governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Qena grew
Qena had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 509,203 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Qena through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Qena in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Qena 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, Qena covered 43 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.0 km² of it. That is 33 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are about 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, 2 lived in Qena, which is 243,801 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Egypt; the coloured squares live in Qena. 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
- 2388 Subang Indonesia244,383
- 2389 Kousseri Cameroon244,247
- 2393 Ash Sharai Saudi Arabia244,064
- 2394 Panabo Philippines244,050
- 2397 Qena243,801
- 2398 El Senbellawein243,779
- 2400 Sawai Madhopur India243,561
- 2401 Merauke Indonesia243,395
- 2404 Kamituga Democratic Republic of the Congo243,261
In Egypt, 2025
- 2205 Tima264,280
- 2310 Rosetta252,147
- 2325 Diyarb Nigm250,476
- 2358 Qus247,941
- 2397 Qena243,801
- 2398 El Senbellawein243,779
- 2489 Sinnuris235,984
- 2586 Hihya227,360
- 2600 Maghagha226,358
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Qena 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 Qena 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