Rod El Farag
Rod El Farag is a district in the Northern Area of Cairo, Egypt. Rod El Farag neighbours the River Nile to the west, Bulaq district to the south, Shubra district to the east and al-Sahel district to the north.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 157,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Egypt
- Also known as: “rawd al faraj”, “Rawd al Faraj”, “Rawḑ al Faraj”, and “Rn̈d el Farag”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ramses Railway Station and Apostolic Nunciature.
Ramses Railway Station
Railway station
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Ramses Railway Station, also called Misr Station, is the main railway station of Cairo, Egypt. The name is derived from the Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, whose statue was erected by former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser on the square there in 1955.
Apostolic Nunciature
Government office
The Apostolic Nunciature to Egypt is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Egypt. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador.
Embassy of Hungary
Government office
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Embassy of Hungary is a government office.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boulaq and El Sahel.
Boulaq
Suburb
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Boulaq, is a district of Cairo, in Egypt. It neighbours Downtown Cairo, Azbakeya, and the River Nile.
El Sahel
Neighborhood
El-Sahel of Cairo is a district in the Northern Area of Cairo, Egypt. It used to form part of a larger district of Shubra that was established as a garden suburb of Cairo in the 19th century until it was subdivided in 1988 into the districts of al-Sahel, Rod El Farag, and Shubra.
Cairo
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Cairo is the capital of Egypt and, with a total population of Greater Cairo metropolitan area in excess of 16 million people, one of the largest cities in both Africa and the Middle East.
Rod El Farag
- Category: sheyakha
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Rod El Farag” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حي روض الفرج”
- Arabic: “روض الفرج”
- Dutch: “Rod El Farag”
- Egyptian Arabic: “روض الفرج”
- French: “Rod El Farag”
- Persian: “روض الفرج”
- Spanish: “Rūd al-Faraj”
- Swedish: “Rod El Farag”
- Urdu: “روض الفرج”
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