Nasr City
Nasr City forms two of the nine districts of the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt. It is administratively divided into Nasr City West/One, and Nasr City East/Two.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 668,000 residents
- Description: urban district
- Also known as: “El Nasr City”, “Madinat an Nasr”, “Madīnat an Naşr”, “Madinet el-Naṣr”, “Madinet Nassr”, and “Nasr”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cairo Stadium and Baron Empain Palace.
Cairo Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Crosskimo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cairo International Stadium, formerly known as Nasser Stadium, is an Olympic-standard, multi-use stadium with an all-seated capacity of 75,000. The architect of the stadium is the German Werner March, who designed the Olympic Stadium in Berlin from 1934 to 1936.
Baron Empain Palace
Photo: Bishoy Samuel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Baron Empain Palace, also known as Le Palais Hindou, is a distinctive and historic mansion in Heliopolis, a suburb northeast of central Cairo, Egypt.
Unknown Soldier Memorial
The Unknown Soldier Memorial in Cairo is a pyramid-shaped monument in Nasr City. Its construction was ordered by president Anwar Sadat in 1974 in honor of Egyptians and Arabs who lost their lives in the 1973 October War.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Cairo and Garden City.
East Cairo
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The eastern districts of Cairo are a series of planned communities which have been built away from the congestion of historic Cairo. The most prominent communities are Heliopolis, Nasr City, and New Cairo.
Garden City
Garden City is a well-planned and leafy district of central Cairo, 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.
Islamic Cairo
Photo: Ahmed Al.Badawy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Islamic Cairo is the name commonly given to the core of medieval Cairo, a part of the city remarkably different from the modern Downtown district and the suburbs to the west.
Nasr City
- Categories: neighborhood, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.0521° or 30° 3′ 8″ northLongitude
31.3422° or 31° 20′ 32″ eastPopulation
668,000Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)United Nations Location Code
EG QAHOpen location code
8G2H382R+RVOpenStreetMap ID
node 768552342OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Nasr City” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مدينة نصر”
- Chinese: “奈斯爾城”
- Chinese: “納斯爾市”
- Chinese: “納賽爾城”
- Chinese: “纳斯尔城”
- Chinese: “纳赛尔城”
- Danish: “Nasr City”
- Dutch: “Nasr City”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة نصر”
- French: “Nasr City”
- German: “Madinat Nasr”
- German: “Madīnat Naṣr”
- German: “Nasr City”
- Hebrew: “מדינת נסר”
- Indonesian: “Kota Nasr”
- Irish: “Medinet Nasr”
- Irish: “Nasr City”
- Italian: “Nasr”
- Japanese: “ナスル・シティ”
- Japanese: “マディーナトナスル”
- Persian: “شهرک نصر”
- Persian: “مدینه نصر - شرق”
- Persian: “مدینه نصر”
- Russian: “Мадинат-Наср”
- Slovenian: “Nasr City”
- Spanish: “Madīnat an-Naṣr”
- Spanish: “Nasr City”
- Swedish: “Nasser City”
- Ukrainian: “Насер-Сіті”
- Urdu: “نصر شہر”
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