Sheikh Zayed City
Sheikh Zayed City is a city in Giza Governorate, Egypt and part of the Greater Cairo urban area. Established in 1995, located approximately 20 km from the Mohandiseen district and 28 km from Tahrir Square in the Downtown Cairo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 383,000 residents
- Description: Egyptian city
- Also known as: “El-Sheikh Zayed City”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Smart Village and Abu Rawash.
Smart Village
Village
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Smart Village is a high-technology business district in the city of 6th of October in Giza Governorate, Egypt, established by Presidential Decree no.355 in 2000, with activities starting in 2001. Smart Village is situated 3½ km northeast of Sheikh Zayed City.
Abu Rawash
Locality
Photo: AhlyMan, Public domain.
Abu Rawash, 8 kilometres north of Giza, is the site of Egypt's most northerly pyramid, also known as the lost pyramid – the mostly ruined Pyramid of Djedefre, the son and successor of Khufu. Abu Rawash is situated 8 km east of Sheikh Zayed City.
Sheikh Zayed City
- Category: city
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.04844° or 30° 2′ 54″ northLongitude
30.99188° or 30° 59′ 31″ eastPopulation
383,000Elevation
103 metres (338 feet)Open location code
8G2G2XXR+9QOpenStreetMap ID
way 1104195975
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Sheikh Zayed City” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الشيخ زايد”
- Arabic: “مدينة الشيخ زايد”
- Arabic: “مدينه الشيخ زايد”
- Asturian: “Sheikh Zayed City”
- Chinese: “谢赫扎耶德城”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة الشيخ زايد”
- French: “Cheikh Zayed”
- French: “Sheikh Zayed City”
- French: “Ville de Cheikh Zayed”
- German: “Madinat asch-Schaich Zayid”
- German: “Sheikh Zayed City”
- Hebrew: “שייח‘ זאיד”
- Indonesian: “Kota Syekh Zayed”
- Italian: “Sheikh Zayed City”
- Malay: “Bandar Sheikh Zayed”
- Polish: “Madinat asz-Szajch Zajid”
- Russian: “Город Шейхов”
- Scots: “Sheikh Zayed Ceety”
- Urdu: “شیخ زاید شہر”
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