Tahrir Square
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.
- Type: Square
- Description: public town square in Downtown Cairo, Egypt
- Also known as: “Al-Tahrir-Platz”, “At-Tahrir-Platz”, “Cairo/Midan Tahrir”, “El Tahrir Square”, “Felszabadulás tér (Kairó)”, “Martyrs Square”, “Midan at-Tahrir”, “place de la Libération”, “Platz der Befreiung”, “Plaza de la Liberacion”, “Qasr el-Nil”, “Qasr en-Nil”, “Tachrir-Platz”, “Tahrir Squerr”, “Tahrír tér (Kairó)”, “Πλατεία Ελευθερίας”, “Площадь Исмаилия”, “Площадь освобождения”, “التحرير”, “タフリール広場”, and “解放広場”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Gezira and Egyptian Museum.
Egyptian Museum
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Arab League and Bab al-Louq.
Arab League
Locality
The Arab League, officially the League of Arab States, is a regional organisation in the Arab world.
Tahrir Square
- Categories: park, recreation area, and locality
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.04442° or 30° 2′ 40″ north
Longitude
31.23574° or 31° 14′ 9″ east
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
Open location code
8G2H26VP+Q7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Tahrir Square” goes by many names.
- 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 Tahrir”
- French: “Place Tahrir”
- German: “Tahrir-Platz”
- German: “Taḥrīr-Platz”
- Greek: “Πλατεία Ταχρίρ”
- Hebrew: “כיכר א-תחריר”
- Hebrew: “כיכר תחריר”
- Hindi: “तहरीर चौक”
- Hungarian: “Tahrír tér”
- Indonesian: “Alun-alun Tahrir”
- Irish: “Cearnóg Tahrir”
- Italian: “piazza Tahrir”
- Italian: “Piazza Tahrir”
- Japanese: “タハリール広場”
- Kashmiri: “تحریٖر مٲدان”
- 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: “Midan Tahrir”
- Portuguese: “Praça Tahrir”
- Romanian: “Piața Tahrir”
- Russian: “Площадь Тахрир”
- Scots: “Tahrir Square”
- Serbian: “Трг Тахрир”
- Slovenian: “Trg Tahrir”
- Spanish: “Plaza de la Liberación”
- Swedish: “Befrielsetorget”
- Swedish: “Tahrirtorget”
- Tamil: “தஹ்ரீர் சதுக்கம்”
- Thai: “จัตุรัสตะห์รีร”
- 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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