North Africa
Egypt
Cairo Governorate

Cairo International Airport

Cairo International Airport is the principal of and the largest and busiest airport in Egypt. It serves as the primary hub for EgyptAir and Nile Air as well as several other airlines.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: International Airport just outside Cairo, Egypt
  • Also known as: “CAI”, “Cairo”, “Cairo Airport”, and “HECA”
  • Wheelchair access: yes
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Adly Mansour.

Railway station
The Transportation Hub is in , Egypt. It was inaugurated on 3 July 2022 by the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and was named in honour of , former President of the Supreme Constitutional Court.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Cairo and North Cairo.

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The eastern districts of 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.

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The northern districts of Greater form a vast and highly populated region, but which is generally of little interest to the tourist. The ancient city of Heliopolis was here, but it's mostly covered over by urban sprawl of the Matariya neighborhood.

Village
is a mixed-use urban development in , , located along the Cairo Ring Road. Developed by -based Al-Futtaim Real Estate, it covers approximately 3 million square meters, combining residential, commercial, retail, hospitality, and entertainment facilities and was opened in 2010. is situated 9 km south of Cairo International Airport.

Cairo International Airport

Latitude
30.11404° or 30° 6′ 51″ north
Longitude
31.41391° or 31° 24′ 50″ east
Elevation
116 metres (381 feet)
IATA airport code
CAI
ICAO airport code
HECA
United Nations Location Code
EG CAI
Open location code
8G2H4C77+JH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 135896473
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6297293
Wiki­data ID
Q461793
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Cairo International Airport” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kaïro Internasionale Lughawe”
  • Arabic: “مطار القاهرة الجوي”
  • Arabic: “مطار القاهرة الدولى”
  • Arabic: “مطار القاهرة الدولي”
  • Arabic: “مطار القاهرة”
  • Arabic: “ميناء القاهرة الجوي”
  • Arabic: “ميناء القاهره الجوي”
  • Armenian: “Կահիրեի միջազգային օդանավակայան”
  • Basque: “Kairoko nazioarteko aireportua”
  • Belarusian: “Аэрапорт Каір”
  • Bengali: “কায়রো আন্তর্জাতিক বিমানবন্দর”
  • Catalan: “Aeroport Internacional del Caire”
  • Cebuano: “Cairo International Airport”
  • Central Kurdish: “فڕۆکەخانەی نێودەوڵەتی قاھیرە”
  • Chinese: “开罗国际机场”
  • Chinese: “開羅國際機場”
  • Croatian: “Zračna luka Kairo”
  • Czech: “Mezinárodní letiště Káhira”
  • Danish: “Cairo International Airport”
  • Dutch: “Cairo airport”
  • Dutch: “Cairo international airport”
  • Dutch: “Caïro International Airport”
  • Dutch: “Internationale luchthaven van Cairo”
  • Dutch: “Internationale luchthaven van Caïro”
  • Dutch: “Luchthaven Cairo Internationaal”
  • Dutch: “Luchthaven Caïro Internationaal”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مطار القاهرة الدولى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مطار القاهره الدولى”
  • Esperanto: “Internacia Flughaveno Kairo”
  • Estonian: “Kairo rahvusvaheline lennujaam”
  • Finnish: “Kairon kansainvälinen lentoasema”
  • French: “Aéroport du Caire”
  • French: “Aeroport international du Caire”
  • French: “aéroport international du Caire”
  • French: “Aéroport international du Caire”
  • French: “Aéroport International du Caire”
  • French: “CAI”
  • French: “Cairo Egypt Cairo International Airport”
  • French: “Cairo International Airport”
  • French: “Cairo”
  • French: “HECA”
  • Galician: “Aeroporto do Cairo”
  • German: “CAI”
  • German: “Cairo International Airport”
  • German: “Flughafen Kairo International”
  • German: “Flughafen Kairo-International”
  • German: “Flughafen Kairo”
  • German: “HECA”
  • Greek: “Διεθνές Αεροδρόμιο του Καΐρου”
  • Hausa: “Filin jirgin saman Kairo”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבין-לאומי של קהיר”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבינלאומי קהיר”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבינלאומי של קהיר”
  • Hindi: “काहिरा अंतरराष्ट्रीय हवाई अड्डा”
  • Hungarian: “CAI”
  • Hungarian: “HECA”
  • Hungarian: “Kairó nemzetközi repülőtér”
  • Hungarian: “Kairói nemzetközi repülőtér”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Internasional Kairo”
  • Indonesian: “Bandara Internasional Kairo”
  • Indonesian: “CAI”
  • Indonesian: “HECA”
  • Interlingua: “Aeroporto international Cairo”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto de Il Cairo”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto del Cairo”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto Internazionale del Cairo”
  • Italian: “Cairo International Airport”
  • Japanese: “カイロ国際空港”
  • Japanese: “カイロ空港”
  • Kirghiz: “Каир аба майданы”
  • Korean: “카이로 국제공항”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kaherah”
  • Malayalam: “Cairo International Airport”
  • Malayalam: “കെയ്രോ അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര വിമാനത്താവളം”
  • Malayalam: “കെയ്റോ അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര വിമാനത്താവളം”
  • Marathi: “कैरो आंतरराष्ट्रीय विमानतळ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cairo International Airport”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه بین‌المللی قاهره”
  • Polish: “Międzynarodowy port lotniczy Kair”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Kair”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto internacional de cairo”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto Internacional do Cairo”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Cairo”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Internațional Cairo”
  • Russian: “Каир”
  • Russian: “Международный аэропорт Каир (CAI)”
  • Russian: “Международный аэропорт Каир”
  • Russian: “Международный аэропорт Каира”
  • Serbian: “Аеродром Каиро”
  • Slovak: “Medzinárodné letisko Káhira”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de El Cairo”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de El Cairo”
  • Swedish: “Cairo International Airport”
  • Swedish: “Kairo flygplats”
  • Swedish: “Kairos flygplats”
  • Swedish: “Kairos internationella flygplats”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи Байн‌алмиллалии Қоҳира”
  • Tamil: “கெய்ரோ பன்னாட்டு வானூர்தி நிலையம்”
  • Tatar: “Каһирә халыкара аэропорты”
  • Tatar: “Каһирә халыкара һава аланы”
  • Thai: “Cairo International Airport”
  • Thai: “ท่าอากาศยานนานาชาติไคโร”
  • Turkish: “Kahire Uluslararası Havalimanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Каїр”
  • Ukrainian: “Каїрський аеропорт”
  • Ukrainian: “Каїрський міжнародний аеропорт”
  • Ukrainian: “Міжнародний аеропорт Каїр”
  • Urdu: “قاہرہ بین الاقوامی ہوائی اڈا”
  • Uzbek: “Qohira xalqaro aeroporti”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân bay quốc tế Cairo”
  • Welsh: “Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Cairo”
  • Western Panjabi: “قاہرہ بین الاقوامی ہوائی اڈا”

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