Nasser | |
Native Name: | ناصر |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Settlement Type: | City |
Pushpin Map: | Egypt |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Egypt |
Coordinates: | 29.1699°N 31.1026°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Egypt |
Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
Subdivision Name1: | Beni Suef |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Total Km2: | 220 |
Population Total: | 392,002 |
Population As Of: | 2019 (estimated) |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | EST |
Utc Offset1: | +2 |
Nasser (Arabic: ناصر), older name is Bush (Arabic: بوش, in Coptic pronounced as /pˈuʃən/)https://www.trismegistos.org/place/2650 is a city and corresponding markaz in Beni Suef Governorate, Egypt. It is named after former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
The city was called Pois [1] in Ptolemaic and Byzantine Egypt.
The 1885 Census of Egypt recorded Bush (as Boche) as a nahiyah under the district of Beni Suef in Beni Suef Governorate; at that time, the population of the city was 7,091 (3,554 men and 3,537 women).[2]
As of 2019, the estimated population of Nasser markaz was 393,002, of whom 264,887 lived in rural areas and 128,115 in urban areas.[3]