Boulaq
Boulaq, is a district of Cairo, in Egypt. It neighbours Downtown Cairo, Azbakeya, and the River Nile.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 51,700 residents
- Description: urban district of Cairo, Egypt
- Also known as: “Boulac”, “Boulak”, “Bulac”, “Bulaq”, “Bulaq Abu al ‘Ila”, and “Būlāq Abū al ‘Ilā”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Egyptian Museum and Tahrir Square.
Egyptian Museum
Museum
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum and also called the Cairo Museum or the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, is the Egyptological museum which houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world, including over 170,000 items.
Tahrir Square
Square
Photo: Waelmansoory, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tahrir Square, also known as Martyr Square, is a public town square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. The square has been the location and focus for political demonstrations.
Cairo Tower
Photo: Mohamedusrii, CC BY 4.0.
The Cairo Tower is a free-standing concrete tower in Cairo, Egypt. 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cairo and Islamic Cairo.
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.
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.
Downtown Cairo
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Downtown Cairo is the commercial heart of the modern city of Cairo. In addition to hosting the Egyptian Museum, Downtown is the convenient location of many smaller hotels, retail outlets, travel agencies and restaurants.
Boulaq
- Categories: sheyakha and locality
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.0592° or 30° 3′ 33″ northLongitude
31.2342° or 31° 14′ 3″ eastPopulation
51,700Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)Open location code
8G2H365M+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 317193944OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
358683Wikidata ID
Q1003523
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Boulaq” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Būlāq”
- Arabic: “بولاق أبو العلا”
- Arabic: “بولاق”
- Arabic: “حي بولاق”
- Armenian: “Բուլաք”
- Azerbaijani: “Bulaq (Misir)”
- Azerbaijani: “Bulaq”
- Catalan: “Bulak”
- Catalan: “Bulaq”
- Catalan: “Khalidj al-nasiri”
- Chinese: “布拉克”
- Czech: “Búlaq”
- Dutch: “Bulaq”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بولاق ابو العلا”
- Finnish: “Bulaq”
- French: “Boulaq”
- French: “Bûlâq”
- French: “Boulâq” (historical)
- Georgian: “ბულაკი”
- German: “Bulak”
- German: “Bulaq”
- German: “Būlāq”
- Irish: “Bulaq”
- Italian: “Bulaq”
- Japanese: “ブーラーク”
- Korean: “불라크”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Boulaq”
- Norwegian: “Boulaq”
- Persian: “بولاق”
- Polish: “Bulak”
- Polish: “Bulaq”
- Portuguese: “Beaulac”
- Portuguese: “Boulaq”
- Portuguese: “Bulak”
- Portuguese: “Bulaq”
- Portuguese: “Bulaque”
- Russian: “Булак (гавань)”
- Russian: “Булак (район Каира)”
- Russian: “Булак”
- Spanish: “Beaulac”
- Spanish: “Boulaq”
- Spanish: “Bulak”
- Spanish: “Bulaq”
- Spanish: “Būlāq”
- Swedish: “Boulaq”
- Turkish: “Bulak”
- Ukrainian: “Булак (Каїр)”
- Ukrainian: “Булак”
- Urdu: “بولاق”
- Uzbek: “Buloq (Qohira)”
- Uzbek: “Buloq”
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