Greater Cairo
The Greater Cairo is a metropolitan area centered around Cairo, Egypt. It comprises the entirety of the Cairo Governorate, the cities of Imbaba and Giza in the Giza Governorate, and the city Shubra El Kheima in Qalyubia Governorate.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Region with 20,000,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 11 metres (36 feet)
- …is also known as “Greater Cairo Area”
- …is abbreviated as “GCA”
- Description: metropolitan area in Egypt
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gezira and Tahrir Square.
Tahrir Square
Square
Tahrir Square, also known as Martyr Square, is a public town square in downtown Cairo, Egypt.
Egyptian Museum
Museum
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cairo and Giza.
Downtown Cairo
Downtown Cairo is the commercial heart of the modern city of Cairo.
Greater Cairo
- Category: metropolitan area
- Location
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Latitude
30.0175° or 30° 1′ 3″ north
Longitude
31.2181° or 31° 13′ 5″ east
Open location code
8G2H2689+X6
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Greater Cairo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القاهرة الكبرى”
- Arabic: “القاهرة الكبرى”
- Arabic: “القاهرة الكبري”
- Arabic: “قاهرة كبرى”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Qahirə”
- Bosnian: “Veliki Kairo”
- Bulgarian: “Голямо Кайро”
- Chinese: “大开罗”
- Chinese: “大開羅”
- Chinese: “大開羅地區”
- Czech: “Velká Káhira”
- Dutch: “Groot-Caïro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “القاهره الكبرى”
- Esperanto: “Granda Kairo”
- French: “Grand Caire”
- Galician: “rexión metropolitana do Cairo”
- German: “Groß-Kairo”
- German: “Metropolregion Kairo”
- Greek: “Μητροπολιτικό Κάιρο”
- Hausa: “Greater cairo”
- Hebrew: “כרך קהיר”
- Hebrew: “מטרופולין קהיר”
- Hebrew: “קהיר רבתי”
- Hindi: “ग्रेटर क़ाहिरा”
- Hungarian: “Nagy-Kairó”
- Italian: “Grande Cairo”
- Italian: “Greater Cairo”
- Japanese: “グレーター・カイロ”
- Kashmiri: “بۆڑ قاہراہ”
- Malay: “Kaherah Raya”
- Persian: “قاهره بزرگ”
- Polish: “Wielki Kair”
- Portuguese: “Região Metropolitana de Cairo”
- Portuguese: “Região Metropolitana do Cairo”
- Scots: “Greater Cairo”
- Silesian: “Wielgi Kajir”
- Slovenian: “Veliki Kairo”
- South Azerbaijani: “قاهره بزرق”
- Tamil: “பெருநகர கெய்ரோ”
- Turkish: “Büyük Kahire”
- Urdu: “قاہرہ کبری”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng đô thị Cairo”
- Welsh: “Cairo Fwyaf”
- Western Panjabi: “قاہرہ کبری”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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