Maydān Birkat ar Raţl
Maydān Birkat ar Raţl is a square in Cairo Governorate, Egypt. Maydān Birkat ar Raţl is situated nearby to the neighborhood Al Daher, as well as near Coptic Hospital.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Coptic Hospital and Ramses Railway Station.
Coptic Hospital
Hospital
Photo: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, CC0.
The Coptic Hospital is a hospital in Cairo, Egypt. Coptic Hospital is situated 540 metres northwest of Maydān Birkat ar Raţl.
Ramses Railway Station
Railway station
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Ramses Railway Station, also called Misr Station, is the main railway station of Cairo, Egypt. The name is derived from the Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, whose statue was erected by former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser on the square there in 1955. Ramses Railway Station is situated 1 km west of Maydān Birkat ar Raţl.
Al-Azhar Mosque
Mosque
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Al-Azhar Mosque, known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in the historic Islamic core of the city of Cairo, Egypt. Commissioned as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in 970 CE, it was the first mosque established in a city that eventually earned the nickname "the City of a Thousand Minarets". Al-Azhar Mosque is situated 1½ km south of Maydān Birkat ar Raţl.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al Daher and Islamic Cairo.
Al Daher
Neighborhood
Al-Daher is a district in the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. According to the district map, and the census, it is subdivided into the qisms of al-Wayli and el-Daher, or al-Zahir. Some of their better known quarters are Sakakini and Abbassia.
Islamic Cairo
Photo: Ahmed Al.Badawy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Islamic Cairo is the name commonly given to the core of medieval Cairo, a part of the city remarkably different from the modern Downtown district and the suburbs to the west.
Maydān Birkat ar Raţl
- Type: Square
- Also known as: “Birkat ar Raţl Square” and “Maydan Birkat ar Ratl”
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.05993° or 30° 3′ 36″ northLongitude
31.25674° or 31° 15′ 24″ eastElevation
23 metres (75 feet)Open location code
8G2H3754+XMGeoNames ID
7914366
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In Other Languages
“Maydān Birkat ar Raţl” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميدان بركة الرطل”
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