Nasser, Egypt

Nasser, older name is Bush 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 in Ptolemaic and Byzantine Egypt.
The 1885 Census of Egypt recorded Bush as a nahiyah under the district of Beni Suef in Beni Suef Governorate; at that time, the population of the city was 7,091.

Demographics

As of 2023, the estimated population of Nasser markaz was 427,926, of whom 281,009 lived in rural areas and 146,917 in urban areas.