Abdin
Abdin is a suburb in Cairo Governorate, Egypt and has about 43,600 residents. Abdin is situated nearby to the neighborhood Ghit Al E’eda, as well as near Al Lwaa‘ Amin Al Sherif.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 43,600 residents
- Description: quarter in Cairo, Egypt
- Also known as: “`Abdin”, “`Ābdīn”, “Abdeen”, “Ābdīn”, and “Abidin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Abdin Palace and Museum of Islamic Art.
Abdin Palace
Photo: Néfermaât, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Abdeen District is the home of Abdeen Palace, a 19th-century Cairo palace built by Khedive Ismail and served as the Egyptian royal household's primary official residence from 1874 until the July Revolution in 1952.
Museum of Islamic Art
Museum
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, Egypt is considered one of the greatest museums in the world, with its exceptional collection of rare woodwork and plaster artefacts, as well as metal, ceramic, glass, crystal, and textile objects of all periods, from all over the Islamic world.
Egyptian Museum
Museum
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum, located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bab al-Louq and Downtown Cairo.
Bab al-Louq
Suburb
Bab al-Louq is a neighborhood in downtown Cairo. The Egyptian Ministry of Interior was formerly located there.
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.
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.
Abdin
- Categories: sheyakha, city or town, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.04499° or 30° 2′ 42″ northLongitude
31.24886° or 31° 14′ 56″ eastPopulation
43,600Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)Open location code
8G2H26VX+XGOpenStreetMap ID
node 315755236OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
429015Wikidata ID
Q6021507
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Abdin” goes by many names.
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