Zamalek
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.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb with 16,500 residents
- Description: urban district in Cairo, Egypt
- Also known as: “Az Zamalik”, “Az Zamālik”, “El Gezîra”, “El-Zamâlik”, “Ez Zamālik”, “Gezîret el Zamâlik”, and “Zamâlik”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gezira and El-Sawy Cultural Wheel.
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.
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.
All Saints’ Cathedral, Cairo
Church
Photo: Chrischorlton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
All Saints' Cathedral, Cairo was consecrated in 1988 and is the home of the Episcopal/Anglican Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cairo and Boulaq.
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.
Boulaq
Suburb
Photo: iyasser .com, CC BY 2.0.
Boulaq, is a district of Cairo, in Egypt. It neighbours Downtown Cairo, Azbakeya, and the River Nile.
Dokki and Mohandiseen
Dokki and Mohandiseen are districts in Giza suburb on the west bank of the Nile River, part of Greater Cairo.
Zamalek
- Categories: shiyakha and locality
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.06299° or 30° 3′ 47″ northLongitude
31.21963° or 31° 13′ 11″ eastPopulation
16,500Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)Open location code
8G2H3679+5VOpenStreetMap ID
node 13800621826OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
359499Wikidata ID
Q145356
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Zamalek” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الزمالك”
- Catalan: “Zamalek”
- Dutch: “Zamalek”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الزمالك”
- Esperanto: “Zamalek”
- French: “Zamalek”
- Galician: “Zamalek”
- German: “Zamalek”
- German: “Zamālik”
- Hausa: “Zamalek”
- Hebrew: “זמאלכ”
- Hebrew: “זמאלק”
- Irish: “Zamalek”
- Italian: “Zamalek”
- Japanese: “ザマーレク”
- Japanese: “ザマーレク地区”
- Persian: “زمالک”
- Polish: “Az-Zamalik”
- Polish: “Zamalek”
- Portuguese: “Zamalek”
- Russian: “Замалек”
- Spanish: “Zamalek”
- Swahili: “Zamalek”
- Swedish: “Zamalek”
- Urdu: “زمالک”
- “az-Zamālik”
- “الزمالك”
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