Mit Okba
Mit Okba or Mit Akaba is a former village, that was incorporated in the 1950s as two shiakhas in the Agouza district of Giza, Egypt, as the real estate development of Madinat al-Awqaf was built on its fields.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: human settlement in Egypt
- Also known as: “Meet Okba”, “Mît ‘Oqba”, “Mīt ‘Uqbah”, and “Mit `Uqbah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wadi El Nile and Agricultural Museum.
Wadi El Nile
Metro station
Wadi El Nile is a station in the Cairo University branch of Cairo Metro Line 3 that opened on 15 May 2024 as part of Phase 3C of the line. It will be the transfer point to the western Cairo Monorail line.
Agricultural Museum
Park
Photo: Amr F.Nagy, Public domain.
The Agricultural Museum is a museum in Giza, Egypt.
Al-Tawfikia
Metro station
Tawfikia is a station in the Cairo University branch of Cairo Metro Line 3, which was opened on 15 May 2024 as part of Phase 3C of the line. It is located in the intersection between El-Rashid and Ahmed Oraby streets in the Mohandiseen district in Giza.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dokki and Mohandiseen and Gezira.
Dokki and Mohandiseen
Dokki and Mohandiseen are districts in Giza suburb on the west bank of the Nile River, part of Greater Cairo.
Gezira
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gezira is a district of modern Cairo that occupies the southern portion of the main island in the Nile within Cairo itself; in fact, gezira means "island" in Arabic.
Cairo
Photo: Mario modesto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Mit Okba
- Category: neighborhood
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Mit Okba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شياخة ميت عقبة”
- Arabic: “ميت عقبة”
- Arabic: “ميت عقبه”
- Dutch: “Meet Okba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميت عقبه”
- Urdu: “میت عقبہ”
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