New Nasser City

New Nasser City, also known as West Asyut, is a fourth-generation Egyptian new city in Asyut Governorate, administered by the New Urban Communities Authority. Its establishment was formalised by Presidential Decree No. 78 of 2017, and it covers about 6,006 acres, or 26.7 square kilometres, on the Western Plateau, roughly 15 kilometres from Asyut city and 4 kilometres from Asyut International Airport. It is one of 14 fourth-generation cities being built to relieve population pressure on Cairo and Alexandria and is designed for about 345,000 residents. The first phase of about 1,600 acres will hold the new urban complex with residential, educational, health, commercial and small and medium industrial areas, and a logistics area of about 1,500 acres is planned near the airport. Infrastructure includes a drinking water plant, a Nile water transmission line of 20 kilometres and an electricity transformer station.