Imbaba
Imbaba is a working-class neighbourhood in northern Giza, Egypt, located west of the Nile and northwest of and near Gezira Island and downtown Cairo, within the Giza Governorate.Photo: Hossam el-Hamalawy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 625,000 residents
- Description: section of the city of Giza, Egypt
- Also known as: “Ebaba”, “Imbâba”, “Imbadah”, and “Inbada”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gezira and Cairo Tower.
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 Tower
Photo: Mohamedusrii, CC BY 4.0.
The Cairo Tower is a free-standing concrete tower in Cairo, Egypt. It was completed in 1961. At 187 m, it was the tallest structure in Egypt for 37 years until 1998, when it was surpassed by the Suez Canal overhead powerline crossing. Cairo Tower is situated 4 km southeast of Imbaba.
El-Sawy Cultural Wheel
Arts center
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
El Sawy Culture Wheel is a cultural center on Gezira Island in the Zamalek district on central Cairo, Egypt. Named after its founder and owner, Abdelmoniem El-Sawy, it is considered one of the most important cultural venues in Egypt and receives more than 20,000 visitors each month.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zamalek and Cairo.
Zamalek
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Zamalek is a qism within the West District in the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. It is an affluent district on a man-made island which is geologically a part of the west bank of the Nile River, with the bahr al-a'ma cut during the second half of the 19th Century to separate it from the west bank proper.
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.
Dokki and Mohandiseen
Dokki and Mohandiseen are districts in Giza suburb on the west bank of the Nile River, part of Greater Cairo.
Imbaba
- Categories: quarter and kism
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Imbaba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إمبابة”
- Arabic: “امبابه”
- Arabic: “منطقة إمبابة”
- Arabic: “منطقة إمبابه”
- Armenian: “Էմբաբա”
- Catalan: “Imbābah”
- Chinese: “因巴巴”
- Chinese: “因巴拜”
- Egyptian Arabic: “امبابه”
- French: “Embabeh”
- Georgian: “იმბაბა”
- German: “Imbaba”
- German: “Imbāba”
- German: “Imbabah”
- Irish: “Imbaba”
- Persian: “امبابه”
- Polish: “Imbaba”
- Polish: “Imbabah”
- Portuguese: “Imbaba”
- Russian: “Имбаба”
- Russian: “Инбаба”
- Russian: “Эмбаба”
- Russian: “Эмбабах”
- Slovenian: “Imbaba”
- South Azerbaijani: “امبابه”
- Spanish: “Imbābah”
- Swedish: “Imbaba”
- Turkish: “İmbaba”
- Urdu: “امبابہ”
- Waray (Philippines): “Imbaba”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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