Aswan

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Aswan

Total population

241,261

Coordinates24.09°, 32.90°

Demographic figures from CAPMAS (Egypt). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Aswan is a city in Upper Egypt and the capital of the Aswan Governorate. The city of Aswan is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities, with its recorded history spanning over 2,600 years.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Abbas el-Akkad

Egyptian writer (1889-1964)

Harkhuf

ancient Egyptian explorer

Mohamed Mounir

Egyptian singer and actor

A

Ali Hassan Kuban

Egyptian musicians (1929-2001)

N

Nassef Sawiris

Egyptian billionaire businessman

M

Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim

purported former head of media and propaganda for al-Qaeda

K

Khalil Kalfat

Egyptian writer

K

Khalil Abdel-Karim

Lawyer, writer

K

Khnumhotep I

Egyptian nomarch

I

Idris Ali

writer (1940–2010)

A

Ahmed Mounib

Egyptian composer

Essam Karika

Egyptian actor

a

al-Anbā Ghrīghūriyūs

Ali Ghazal

Egyptian association football player

M

Makram N. Kaiser

Egyptian acarologist and parasitologist

E

Elham Ibrahim

Egyptian university teacher

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Aswan

• Syena
  0.3 mi away
• Siou
  0.4 mi away
• Koti
  0.7 mi away
• Shellal
  3 mi away
• Nag Al-Ghalalab
  3.1 mi away
• West of Suhail
  3.3 mi away
• Nagaa Al-Korour
  3.7 mi away
• Shash
  3.8 mi away
• New Aswan
  7.8 mi away
• Al Khattara
  8 mi away
• Sahara City
  8.5 mi away
• Rizqalla
  15.4 mi away

Browse all places in Aswan →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Aswan

Deferasirox, a Novel Oral Iron Chelator, Shows Antiproliferative Activity Against Pancreatic Cancer in Vitro and in Vivo

Aswan Aswan Press · 2016

Aswan hellbox

Gar Wilson · 1983

Aswan

Alberto Siliotti · 2003

La necropoli musulmana di Aswan

Monneret de Villard, Ugo. · 1930

High dam at Aswan

Tom Little · 1965

Aswan Hellbox

Gar Wilson · 1983

Nil in Aswân

Stephan Johannes Seidlmayer · 2022

Aswān

1989

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Lesser Whitethroat

Curruca curruca

Seen 2026-09-30

giant milkweed

Calotropis procera

Seen 2026-09-30

Brown-banded Cockroach

Supella longipalpa

Seen 2026-09-23

Arabian Darkling Beetle

Pimelia arabica

Seen 2026-09-23

African Wolf

Canis lupaster

Seen 2026-09-23

Western Cattle-Egret

Ardea ibis

Seen 2026-09-23

Little Crake

Zapornia parva

Seen 2026-09-22

African Migrant

Catopsilia florella

Seen 2026-09-20

Cosmopleurus fulvipes

Cosmopleurus fulvipes

Seen 2026-09-20

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).