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Qus, 
Egypt
247,941 people lived in Qus in 2025. It is the 2358th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 56th largest in Egypt.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Qus grew
Where Qus had 10 people in 1975, it had 7.9 in 2025, fewer than it started with.
On the UN's projection it will have 511,357 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Qus through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Qus in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Egypt · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 219 cities in Egypt in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Cairo. The ringed dot in colour is Qus; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Qus covered 63 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 92%, and its people have fallen by 21%.
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 1,000 people in Egypt in 2025, 2 lived in Qus, which is 247,941 people.
How to read this: shrink Egypt to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Qus; 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
- 2352 Abak Nigeria248,528
- 2353 Lisala Democratic Republic of the Congo248,434
- 2354 Naugarh India248,273
- 2355 Demba Democratic Republic of the Congo248,191
- 2358 Qus247,941
- 2360 Kipushi Democratic Republic of the Congo247,546
- 2362 Sreemangal Bangladesh247,298
- 2364 Koforidua Ghana246,770
- 2366 Irgalem Ethiopia246,701
In Egypt, 2025
- 2118 Abu Kabir274,073
- 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
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 Qus 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 Qus 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