New Beni Suef

New Beni Suef is a planned city in the Beni Suef Governorate of Egypt, built by the New Urban Communities Authority to the east of the older city of Beni Suef and lying on the Nile River. Its Arabic name is Bani Suwayf al-Jadida. The city was estimated to hold about 31,000 people in 2020, and the 2023 estimate published by citypopulation.de is about 34,800, up from roughly 17,900 at the 2006 census. As a new urban community it was laid out by a national planning authority rather than growing slowly around an old market or river crossing, and it is best read as an extension of the Beni Suef urban area, separate from the long-established city to its west.