North Africa
Egypt
Cairo Governorate

Tahrir Square

Tahrir Square, also known as Martyr Square, is a public in , . The square has been the location and focus for political demonstrations.
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  • Type: Square
  • Description: public town square in Downtown Cairo, Egypt
  • Also known as: “Cairo/Midan Tahrir”, “El Tahrir Square”, and “Martyrs Square”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Egyptian Museum and Omar Makram mosque.

Museum
Photo: Bs0u10e01, CC BY 3.0.
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the and also called the Cairo Museum or the in Cairo, is the Egyptological museum which houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world, including over 170,000 items. is situated 430 metres northwest of Tahrir Square.

Mosque
Photo: Abdallahelhaty, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 220 metres southwest of Tahrir Square.

Photo: Mohamedusrii, CC BY 4.0.
The is a free-standing concrete in , . 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. is situated 1 km west of Tahrir Square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arab League and Bab al-Louq.

Locality
The , officially the League of Arab States, is a regional organization in the Arab world. The was formed in on 22 March 1945, initially with seven members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, , , Syria, and North Yemen.

Suburb
is a neighborhood in downtown . The Egyptian Ministry of Interior was formerly located there. square is the oldest square in Cairo, dating back to the Mamluk era.

Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the commercial heart of the modern city of . In addition to hosting the Egyptian Museum, Downtown is the convenient location of many smaller hotels, retail outlets, travel agencies and restaurants.

Tahrir Square

Latitude
30.04442° or 30° 2′ 40″ north
Longitude
31.23575° or 31° 14′ 9″ east
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
Open location code
8G2H26VP+Q7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 30925727
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
place=­square
Geo­Names ID
6955473
Wiki­data ID
Q12061
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Tahrir Square” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “‎التحرير”
  • Arabic: “ميدان التحرير”
  • Armenian: “Թահրիր հրապարակ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Təhrir meydanı”
  • Basque: “Tahrir plaza”
  • Bengali: “তাহরির চত্বর”
  • Bulgarian: “Тахрир”
  • Catalan: “plaça Tahrir”
  • Catalan: “Plaça Tahrir”
  • Central Kurdish: “گۆڕەپانی تەحریر”
  • Chinese: “解放广场”
  • Czech: “Náměstí Osvobození”
  • Danish: “Tahrir-pladsen”
  • Dutch: “Tahrirplein”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان التحرير”
  • Esperanto: “Placo de Liberiĝo”
  • Esperanto: “Tahrir”
  • Estonian: “Taḩrīri väljak”
  • Finnish: “Tahririn aukio”
  • French: “place de la Libération”
  • French: “place Tahrir”
  • French: “Place Tahrir”
  • German: “Al-Tahrir-Platz”
  • German: “At-Tahrir-Platz”
  • German: “Midan at-Tahrir”
  • German: “Midan Tahrir”
  • German: “Platz der Befreiung”
  • German: “Qasr el-Nil”
  • German: “Qasr en-Nil”
  • German: “Tachrir-Platz”
  • German: “Tahrir Square”
  • German: “Tahrir-Platz”
  • German: “Taḥrīr-Platz”
  • German: “Tahrir”
  • Greek: “Πλατεία Ελευθερίας”
  • Greek: “Πλατεία Ταχρίρ”
  • Hebrew: “כיכר א-תחריר”
  • Hebrew: “כיכר תחריר”
  • Hindi: “तहरीर चौक”
  • Hungarian: “Felszabadulás tér (Kairó)”
  • Hungarian: “Tahrír tér (Kairó)”
  • Hungarian: “Tahrír tér”
  • Indonesian: “Alun-alun Tahrir”
  • Irish: “Cearnóg Tahrir”
  • Italian: “piazza Tahrir”
  • Italian: “Piazza Tahrir”
  • Japanese: “タハリール広場”
  • Japanese: “タフリール広場”
  • Japanese: “解放広場”
  • Korean: “타흐리르 광장”
  • Lithuanian: “Tahriro aikštė”
  • Malayalam: “തഹ്രീർ ചത്വരം”
  • Malayalam: “തഹ്‌രീർ ചത്വരം”
  • Manx: “Kerrin Tahrir”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tahrirplassen”
  • Norwegian: “Tahrirplassen”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਹਿਰੀਰ ਚੌਕ”
  • Persian: “میدان تحریر”
  • Polish: “Majdan at-Tahrir”
  • Polish: “Midan Tahrir”
  • Portuguese: “Cairo/Midan Tahrir”
  • Portuguese: “Midan Tahrir”
  • Portuguese: “Praça Tahrir”
  • Romanian: “Piața Tahrir”
  • Russian: “Площадь Исмаилия”
  • Russian: “Площадь освобождения”
  • Russian: “Площадь Тахрир”
  • Scots: “Tahrir Square”
  • Scots: “Tahrir Squerr”
  • Serbian: “Трг Тахрир”
  • Slovenian: “Trg Tahrir”
  • Spanish: “Plaza de la Liberacion”
  • Spanish: “Plaza de la Liberación”
  • Swedish: “Befrielsetorget”
  • Swedish: “Tahrirtorget”
  • Tamil: “தஹ்ரீர் சதுக்கம்”
  • Thai: “จัตุรัสทาห์รีร์”
  • Turkish: “Tahrir Meydanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Мідан Тахрір”
  • Ukrainian: “Тахрір”
  • Urdu: “تحریر چوک”
  • Vietnamese: “Quảng trường Tahrir”
  • Welsh: “Sgwâr Tahrir”
  • Western Panjabi: “تحریر چوک”

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