North Africa
Egypt
Qalyubia Governorate

Shubra El Kheima

Shubra El Kheima, is the fourth-largest city in after , and . It is located in the Qalyubia Governorate along the northern edge of the . It forms part of the metropolitan area.
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  • Type: City with 1,020,000 residents
  • Description: Egyptian city north of Cairo
  • Also known as: “Shobra Elkhema”, “Shubra al Khayma”, “Shubra al-Khayma, Shubra al Khayma”, and “Shubra El-Kheima”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Heliopolis and Rawd El-Farag.

Archaeological site
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was a major city of ancient Egypt. It was the capital of the Heliopolite or 13th Nome of and a major religious centre. Its site is within the boundaries of and El Matareya, districts in northeastern .

Metro station
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is a metro station.

Castle
Koubbeh Palace or Qubbah Palace is one of the various Egyptian palaces which serve as the country's official guest house for visiting dignitaries. The palace was most likely originally built in the mid-19th century and sold to Khedive Ismail in 1866 by his brother Mustafa Fazl Pasha.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Garden City and Cairo.

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is a well-planned and leafy district of central , immediately south of the very centre of the modern city at Midan Tahrir. In 1905 the agricultural architect Jose Lamba was asked by the owners of the Nile Land and Agricultural Company to design a new city.

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is the capital of and, with a total population of Greater metropolitan area in excess of 16 million people, one of the largest cities in both and the .

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The northern districts of Greater form a vast and highly populated region, but which is generally of little interest to the tourist. The ancient city of Heliopolis was here, but it's mostly covered over by urban sprawl of the Matariya neighborhood.

Shubra El Kheima

Latitude
30.1286° or 30° 7′ 43″ north
Longitude
31.2422° or 31° 14′ 32″ east
Population
1,020,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
Open location code
8G2H46HR+CV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768591737
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
349076
Wiki­data ID
Q269960
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Shubra El Kheima” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Shubra El-Kheima”
  • Arabic: “شبرا الخيمة”
  • Arabic: “شبرا الخيمه”
  • Armenian: “Շուբրա ալ Խեյմա”
  • Asturian: “Shubra El-Kheima”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şübra əl-Xeymə”
  • Basque: “Xubra el-Khaima”
  • Belarusian: “Шубра-Эль-Хейма”
  • Bengali: “শুবরা এল খেইমা”
  • Bulgarian: “Шубра ал-Хайма”
  • Catalan: “Shubrā al-Khaymah”
  • Cebuano: “Shubrā al Khaymah”
  • Chechen: “Шубра-Аль-ХаймахӀ”
  • Chinese: “舒卜拉海迈”
  • Chinese: “舒卜拉海邁”
  • Croatian: “Shubra El-Kheima”
  • Czech: “Šubrá al-Chejma”
  • Danish: “Shubra al-Khayma”
  • Dutch: “Shubra El Khema”
  • Dutch: “Shubra-El-Khema”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شبرا الخيمه”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝubra al Ĥejma”
  • Estonian: “Shubra al-Khaymah”
  • Estonian: “Shubrā al-Khaymah”
  • French: “Shubra al Khayma”
  • French: “Shubra el Kheima”
  • French: “Shubra El-Kheima”
  • Georgian: “შუბრა-ელ-ჰეიმა”
  • German: “Schubra al-Chaima”
  • German: “Schubra el-Cheima”
  • German: “Schubrā el-Cheima”
  • German: “Shubra al Khayma”
  • Greek: “Σοπρα ελ Χέμα”
  • Greek: “Σούμπρα ελ Χέιμα”
  • Hebrew: “שוברא אל ח’ימה”
  • Hebrew: “שוברא אל-ח’ימה”
  • Hebrew: “שוברא אלחימה”
  • Hungarian: “Shubra El-Kheima”
  • Hungarian: “Subra el-Hejma”
  • Irish: “Shubra El-Kheima”
  • Italian: “Shubra El-Khema”
  • Japanese: “ショブラ・エル・ケイマ”
  • Japanese: “スブラエルケーマ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Shubra El-Kheima”
  • Korean: “슈브라 엘 케이마”
  • Korean: “슈브라엘케이마”
  • Lithuanian: “Šubra al Heima”
  • Lithuanian: “Šubra el Cheima”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shubra El Kheima”
  • Norwegian: “Shubra El Kheima”
  • Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਬਰਾ ਅਲ-ਖ਼ੇਮਾ”
  • Persian: “شبر الخیمه”
  • Persian: “شبرا الخیمه”
  • Polish: “Shubra al Khaymah”
  • Polish: “Szubra al Chaima”
  • Polish: “Szubra al-Chajma”
  • Portuguese: “Shubra El-Kheima”
  • Portuguese: “Xubra el-Kheima”
  • Russian: “Шубра аль-Хайма”
  • Russian: “Шубра-Эль-Хайма”
  • Russian: “Шубра-эль-Хейма”
  • Russian: “Шубра-Эль-Хейма”
  • Scots: “Shubra El-Kheima”
  • Serbian: “Schubra al-Chaima”
  • Serbian: “Šubra el Kejma”
  • Serbian: “Шубра ел Кејма”
  • Serbian: “شبرا الخيمة”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šubra el Kejma”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شبرالخیمة”
  • Spanish: “Shubrā al-Khaymah”
  • Swahili: “Shubra El Kheima”
  • Swedish: “Shubra al Khaymah”
  • Swedish: “Shubra al-Khayma”
  • Swedish: “Shubra al-Khaymah”
  • Swedish: “Shubrā al-Khaymah”
  • Swedish: “Shubra el-Kheima”
  • Swedish: “Shubra-El-Khema”
  • Tajik: “Шубро-ал-Хайма”
  • Thai: “ชุบรออัลค็อยมะฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Şübre El-Heyma”
  • Ukrainian: “Шубра-ель-Хейма”
  • Urdu: “شبرا الخیمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Shubra al-Xayma”
  • Venetian: “Shubra El-Khema”
  • Vietnamese: “Shubra El-Kheima”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shubra al Khaymah”
  • Zulu: “Shubra El Kheima”

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