Cairo
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.
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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.
Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land.
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The eastern districts of Cairo are a series of planned communities which have been built away from the congestion of historic Cairo.
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.
Ma'adi a suburban district of Cairo, to the south of the city center on the eastern bank of the Nile, consists of two distinct areas, Old Ma'adi and New Ma'adi.
Old Cairo is the name given to the extensive district of southern Cairo from the southern boundary of Garden City down to the precinct commonly known as Coptic Cairo.
Cairo
- Location: Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- Population: 7,600,000
- IATA airport code: CAI
- Latitude: 30° 3' 25.5" (30.0571°) north
- Longitude: 31° 13' 30.6" (31.2252°) east
- Elevation: 23 meters (75 feet)
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Afrikaans: Kaïro
Amharic: ካይሮ
Arabic: القاهرة
Arpitan: Lo Cayiro
Azerbaijani: Qahirə
Basque: Kairo
Bosnian: Kairo
Bulgarian: Кайро
Catalan: El Caire
Cebuano: Caire
Croatian: Kairo
Czech: Káhira
Danish: Kairo
Dutch: Caïro
Esperanto: Kairo
Estonian: Kairo
Finnish: Kairo
French: Le Caire
Galician: Cairo - القاهرة
Georgian: ქაირო
German: Kairo
Greek: Κάιρο
Hebrew: קהיר
Hungarian: Kairó
Icelandic: Kaíró
Ido: Kairo
Indonesian: Kairo
Italian: Il Cairo
Japanese: カイロ
Javanese: Kairo
Korean: 카이로
Latin: Cairus
Latvian: Kaira
Lithuanian: Kairas
Macedonian: Каиро
Malay: Kaherah
Norwegian: Kairo
Norwegian Nynorsk: Kairo
Ossetian: Каир
Persian: قاهره
Piemontese: Ël Cairo
Piemontese: Ël Càiro
Polish: Kair
Russian: Каир
Serbian: Каиро
Serbo-Croatian: Kairo
Sicilian: Cairu
Slovak: Káhira
Slovenian: Kairo
Spanish: El Cairo
Swahili: Kairo
Swedish: Kairo
Tagalog: Lungsod ng Cairo
Tamil: கெய்ரோ
Thai: ไคโร
Tibetan: ཁ་ཡི་རོ
Tosk Albanian: Kairo
Turkish: Kahire
Uighur: Kayro
Uighur: قاھىرە
Ukrainian: Каїр
Urdu: قاہرہ
Volapük: Kahirä
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