Imbaba Airport
Embaba Airport was a pilot training airport in the Cairo suburb of Giza that was closed in 2002, because of safety concerns due to buildings encroaching on airport property.- Type: Airport
- Description: airport in Egypt
- Also known as: “Embaba Airport”, “HEEM”, “Imbabah Airport”, and “Maţār Imbābah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gezira and Upper Egypt train station.
Gezira
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Gezira is a district of modern Cairo that occupies the southern portion of the main island in the Nile within Cairo itself; in fact, gezira means "island" in Arabic.
Upper Egypt train station
Railway station
Bashteel Railway Station, also called Upper Egypt Railway Station, is a major railway station in Giza, Egypt, located in the Bashteel district of the city.
Agricultural Museum
Park
Photo: Amr F.Nagy, Public domain.
The Agricultural Museum is a museum in Giza, Egypt. Agricultural Museum is situated 3½ km southeast of Imbaba Airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dokki and Mohandiseen and Zamalek.
Dokki and Mohandiseen
Dokki and Mohandiseen are districts in Giza suburb on the west bank of the Nile River, part of Greater Cairo.
Zamalek
Suburb
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Zamalek is a qism within the West District in the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. It is an affluent district on a man-made island which is geologically a part of the west bank of the Nile River, with the bahr al-a'ma cut during the second half of the 19th Century to separate it from the west bank proper. Zamalek is situated 3 km southeast of Imbaba Airport.
Cairo
Photo: Mario modesto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cairo is the capital of Egypt and, with a total population of Greater Cairo metropolitan area in excess of 16 million people, one of the largest cities in both Africa and the Middle East.
Imbaba Airport
- Categories: airport and transportation
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Imbaba Airport” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطار إمبابة”
- Cebuano: “Imbabah Airport”
- Chinese: “因巴拜机场”
- Chinese: “因巴拜機場”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مطار امبابه”
- Indonesian: “HEEM”
- Japanese: “エンババ空港”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Embaba”
- Swedish: “Imbabah Airport”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as ‘Izbat al Maţār and Masākin Muntaşir lil ‘Arāyis.
Notable Places Nearby
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