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Kawm Ombo — UN urban centre

162,984

Kawm Ombo: 162,984 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,713 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7496; 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: 24.4695, 32.9432. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199559,584Estimate
200082,434Estimate
2005100,725Estimate
2010115,599Estimate
2015128,712Estimate
2020132,478Estimate
2025162,984Estimate
2030186,357Projection
2035244,090Projection
2040318,084Projection
2045359,246Projection
2050398,001Projection

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