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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Region with 20,000,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan area in Egypt
- Also known as: “Greater Cairo Area”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Egyptian Museum and El Tahrir Square.
Egyptian Museum
Museum
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum, located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world.
El Tahrir Square
Park
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Tahrir Square, also known as Martyr Square, is a public town square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. The square has been the location and focus for political demonstrations.
Fustat
Protected area
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Fustat, also Fostat, was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, though it has been integrated into Cairo. It was built adjacent to what is now known as Old Cairo by the Rashidun Muslim general 'Amr ibn al-'As immediately after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in AD 641, and featured the Mosque of Amr, the first mosque built in Egypt.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cairo and Giza.
Cairo
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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.
Giza
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Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land. Here is Giza, the city just west of Cairo, where on a desert plateau stand the Pyramids, Sphinx and royal tombs of the pharaohs.
Downtown Cairo
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Downtown Cairo is the commercial heart of the modern city of Cairo. In addition to hosting the Egyptian Museum, Downtown is the convenient location of many smaller hotels, retail outlets, travel agencies and restaurants.
Greater Cairo
- Category: metropolitan area
- Location: Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Greater Cairo from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
- German: “Groß-Kairo”
- German: “Metropolregion Kairo”
- Greek: “Μητροπολιτικό Κάιρο”
- 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”
- 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”
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