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21 largest cities in the Eastern Desert

21 cities, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The cities

  1. 1Beni Suef666 k
  2. 2Ismailia585 k
  3. 3Aswan473 k
  4. 4Luxor285 k
  5. 5Dar el-Salam217 k
  6. 6Qena190 k
  7. 7Atfih186 k
  8. 8Abnub182 k
  9. 9Tenth Of Ramadan144 k
  10. 10Kom Ombo137 k
  11. 11Qus122 k
  12. 12Badr96 k
  13. 13Al Burumbul85 k
  14. 14Abnud77 k
  15. 15Deir el-Bersha67 k
  16. 16Deir Abu Hinnis67 k
  17. 17Dishna65 k
  18. 18Jarajus63 k
  19. 19Hijazah56 k
  20. 20Al Maymun56 k
  21. 21Daraw52 k

Population of the metro area: the city and the places continuously built up around it, as Thomas Brinkhoff’s Major Agglomerations of the World (citypopulation.de) counts them from censuses projected to 1 January 2026, the list most rankings use. It covers every agglomeration of 1 million or more; a smaller city ranks by its GHSL urban centre (2025), or by its city-proper figure where GHSL’s centre is far larger than the list allows. A city inside another city’s metro area (Giza in Cairo’s, Pretoria in Johannesburg’s) is not ranked on its own. The Eastern Desert: what lies inside the desert’s outline, by each item’s point (a lake’s centre, a river’s mouth, a summit). Sources: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), GHSL UCDB R2024A (CC BY 4.0), Wikidata names (CC0).

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