New Cairo
New Cairo is a modern satellite city within the Cairo Governorate of Egypt and the metropolitan area of Greater Cairo, whose formation was first initiated by a presidential decree in 1995 during the presidency of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
- Type: City with 298,000 residents
- Description: town east of Cairo in Egypt
- Also known as: “Al-Qāhera el-Gedīda”, “la Nova Capital d’Egipte”, “Nova Capital”, “Nova Capital d’Egipte”, and “Нью-Каир”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Petro Sport Stadium and Canadian International College.
Petro Sport Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Crosskimo, Public domain.Canadian International College
University building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cairo Festival City.
New Cairo
- Categories: big city, new city of Egypt, and locality
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.0278° or 30° 1′ 40″ north
Longitude
31.4757° or 31° 28′ 33″ east
Population
298,000
Elevation
271 metres (889 feet)
Open location code
8G2H2FHG+47
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“New Cairo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القاهرة الجديدة”
- Armenian: “Նոր Կահիրե”
- Asturian: “New Cairo”
- Azerbaijani: “Yeni Qahirə”
- Belarusian: “Нью-Кайра”
- Bengali: “নতুন কায়রো”
- Bulgarian: “Ново Кайро”
- Catalan: “la Nova Capital”
- Chinese: “新开罗”
- Chinese: “新開羅”
- Czech: “Nová Káhira”
- Danish: “New Cairo”
- Dutch: “New Cairo”
- Dutch: “Nieuw-Caïro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “القاهره الجديده”
- Esperanto: “Nova Kairo”
- Finnish: “New Cairo”
- French: “Nouveau Caire”
- German: “Neu-Kairo”
- Greek: “Νέο Κάιρο”
- Gujarati: “ન્યૂ કૈરો”
- Hebrew: “קהיר החדשה”
- Hindi: “न्यू काइरो”
- Hungarian: “Új-Kairó”
- Indonesian: “Kairo Baru”
- Indonesian: “New Cairo”
- Irish: “New Cairo”
- Italian: “Nuovo Cairo”
- Japanese: “ニューカイロ”
- Kannada: “ಹೊಸ ಕೈರೋ”
- Korean: “뉴카이로”
- Latvian: “Ņukairo”
- Lithuanian: “Naujasis Kairas”
- Malagasy: “New Cairo”
- Malay: “New Cairo”
- Malayalam: “ന്യൂ കെയ്റോ”
- Marathi: “न्यू कॅरो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nye Cairo”
- Norwegian: “Ny-Kairo”
- Ossetian: “Ног Каир”
- Persian: “قاهره جدید”
- Persian: “قاهره نو”
- Polish: “Al-Kahira al-Dżadida”
- Polish: “Nowy Kair”
- Portuguese: “Novo Cairo”
- Russian: “Новый Каир”
- Sinhala: “නව කයිරෝ”
- Slovenian: “Novi Kairo”
- Spanish: “New Cairo”
- Spanish: “Nuevo Cairo”
- Swedish: “Nya Kairo”
- Tamil: “நியூ கைரோ”
- Telugu: “న్యూ కైరో”
- Thai: “ไคโร(นิวยอร์ก)”
- Turkish: “New Cairo”
- Turkish: “Yeni Kahire”
- Ukrainian: “Новий Каїр”
- Ukrainian: “Нью-Кайро”
- Urdu: “جدید قاہرہ”
- Urdu: “نیو کایرو”
- Venetian: “New Cairo”
- Vietnamese: “New Cairo”
- Western Panjabi: “جدید قاہرہ”
- Zulu: “New Cairo”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Leila Compound and Hayat Compound.
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