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Deir Mawas — UN urban centre

101,061

Deir Mawas: 101,061 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,114 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6188; territory: Egypt (EGY). UN source workbook.

Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.

Source centroid: 27.6412, 30.8495. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199557,008Estimate
200066,323Estimate
200574,415Estimate
201081,907Estimate
201591,359Estimate
202095,136Estimate
2025101,061Estimate
2030105,469Projection
2035109,539Projection
2040113,736Projection
2045121,791Projection
2050125,204Projection

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