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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Downtown Cairo
Downtown Cairo is the commercial heart of the modern city of Cairo.Giza
Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land.Gezira
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.Islamic 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.Destinations
Garden City
Garden City is a well-planned and leafy district of central Cairo, immediately south of the very centre of the modern city at Midan Tahrir.East Cairo
The eastern districts of Cairo are a series of planned communities which have been built away from the congestion of historic Cairo.Dokki and Mohandiseen
Dokki and Mohandiseen are districts in Giza suburb on the west bank of the Nile River, part of Greater Cairo.Old Cairo
Old Cairo is the extensive district of southern Cairo from the southern boundary of Garden City down to the precinct commonly known as Coptic Cairo.Ma'adi
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.Cairo Hotels
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Cairo
- Location: Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- Population: 19,500,000
- IATA airport code: CAI
- United Nations Location Code: EG CAI
- Latitude: 30° 3' 25.5" (30.0571°) north
- Longitude: 31° 13' 30.6" (31.2252°) east
- Elevation: 23 meters (75 feet)
- Wikidata: Cairo
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Other Names for Cairo
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 (macrolanguage): Kaherah, Norwegian: Kairo, Norwegian Nynorsk: Kairo, Ossetian: Каир, Persian: قاهره, Piemontese: Ël Cairo, Piemontese: Ël Càiro, Polish: Kair, Portuguese: Cairo, Russian: Каир, Serbian: Каиро, Serbo-Croatian: Kairo, Sicilian: Cairu
Slovak: Káhira, Slovenian: Kairo, Spanish: El Cairo, Swahili (macrolanguage): 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, Al Qāhirah, El-Qâhira, El Kahira, El Kahirah, Masr, Misr, 开罗
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