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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Popular Destinations
Giza
Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land. Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 3.0.Downtown Cairo
Downtown Cairo is the commercial heart of the modern city of Cairo. Photo: Maher27777, Public domain.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. Photo: Ahmed Al.Badawy, CC BY-SA 2.0.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. Photo: Kelisi, Public domain.Notable Places in the Area
Tahrir Square
Tourist attraction
Tahrir Square, also known as "Martyr Square", is a major public town square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Photo: Faris knight, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Egyptian Museum
Museum
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum or the Cairo Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. Photo: Bs0u10e01, CC BY 3.0.
Cairo Tower
Tourist attraction
The Cairo Tower is a free-standing concrete tower in Cairo, Egypt. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Abdin Palace
Castle
Abdeen Palace is a historic Cairo palace, it was built as one of the official residences for the former ruling monarchy and royal family of Egypt. Photo: Néfermaât, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Destinations
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. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.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. Photo: Baldiri, CC BY-SA 3.0.East Cairo
The eastern districts of Cairo are a series of planned communities which have been built away from the congestion of historic Cairo. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.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. Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.Dokki and Mohandiseen
Dokki and Mohandiseen are districts in Giza suburb on the west bank of the Nile River, part of Greater Cairo.Localities in the Area
Hadaiq el Qubbah
Hamlet
El Qobbah is a district of Cairo, Egypt. It is famous for having two major palaces that were once the residences of the King Farouk.
Boulaq
Suburb
Boulaq, is a district of Cairo, in Egypt. It neighbours Downtown Cairo, Azbakeya, and the River Nile. Photo: CaiEg, Public domain.
Al Daher
Neighborhood
El Daher, or El Zaher, is one of the districts of Cairo, Egypt. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
Cairo
- Type: City
- Description: capital city of Egypt
- Categories: capital, metropolitan area and big city
- Location: Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
Latitude 30.0571° or 30° 3' 25.5" north | Longitude 31.2252° or 31° 13' 30.6" east |
Open Location Code 8G2H364G+R3 | Population 9,120,000 |
IATA airport code CAI | United Nations Location Code EG CAI |
Elevation 23 metres (75 feet) | OpenStreetMap ID node 271613766 |
GeoNames ID 360630 |
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Taqahirt
- Achinese: Al-Qahirah
- Adyghe; Adygei: Каир
- Afar: Al-Qahira
- Afrikaans: Kaïro
- Akan: Cairo
- Albanian: Kajro
- Amharic: ካይሮ
- Arabic: Cairo
- Arabic: القاهرة
- Arabic: القاهره
- Arabic: القـــاهــرة
- Arabic: قاهرة المعز
- Arabic: مدينة الالف مئذنة
- Arabic: مدينة القاهرة
- Aragonese: O Caire
- Armenian: Գահիրէ
- Armenian: Կահիրե
- Asturian; Bable: El Cairu
- Avaric: Alkaira
- Avaric: Каир
- Avaric: Къагьира
- Awadhi: काइरो
- Azerbaijani: Qahirə
- Bashkir: Ҡаһирә
- Bashkir: Ҡәһир
- Basque: Kairo
- Belarusian: Каір
- Bengali: কায়রো
- Bengali: কায়রো
- Bhojpuri: काहिरा
- Bhojpuri: कैरो
- Bihari : काहिरा
- Bosnian: Kairo
- Breton: Kaero
- Bulgarian: Кайро
- Burmese: ကိုင်ရိုမြို့
- Catalan: El Caire
- Catalan: el Caire
- Cebuano: Caire
- Cebuano: Cairo
- Central Bicolano: Cairo
- Central Kurdish: قاھیرە
- Chavacano: El Cairo
- Chechen: КъахӀира
- Cheyenne: Cairo
- Chichewa; Nyanja: Cairo
- Chinese: Cairo
- Chinese: 开罗
- Chinese: 開羅
- Chuvash: Каир
- Cornish: Cairo
- Corsican: Cairu
- Corsican: U Cairu
- Crimean Turkish; Crimean Tatar: Qaire
- Croatian: Kairo
- Czech: Káhira
- Danish: Cairo
- Danish: Kairo
- Dimli: Qahire
- Dutch: Cairo
- Dutch: Caïro
- Eastern Mari: Каир
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: القاهره
- English: Cairo, Egypt
- Erzya: Каир ош
- Esperanto: Kairo
- Estonian: Kairo
- Extremaduran: El Cairu
- Faroese: Keiro
- Fijian Hindustani: Cairo
- Finnish: Kairo
- Franco-Provençal: Lo Cayiro
- French: Caire
- French: Cairo
- French: Le Caire
- French: Le Kaire
- Frisian: Kairo
- Friulian: El Cairo
- Gaelic (Scots): Cairo
- Gallegan: Al-Qahira
- Gallegan: Cairo - القاهرة
- Gallegan: O Cairo
- Georgian: კაირო
- Georgian: ქაირო
- German: Kairo
- German: al-Qāhira
- Greek: Κάιρο
- Guianese Creole French: Kèro
- Gujarati: કાઈરો
- Gujarati: કૈરો
- Haitian; Haitian Creole: Li Kè
- Hakka Chinese: Cairo
- Hausa: Cairo
- Hausa: Kairo
- Hebrew: קהיר
- Hindi: काहिरा
- Hungarian: Kairó
- Icelandic: Kaíró
- Ido: Kairo
- Iloko: Cairo
- Inari Sami: Kairo
- Indonesian: Kairo
- Ingush: Каир
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Cairo
- Interlingue: Cairo
- Irish: Caireo
- Italian: Cairo
- Italian: Il Cairo
- Japanese: カイロ
- Javanese: Kairo
- Kabiyé: Kɛɛrɩ
- Kabyle: Taqahirt
- Kalaallisut: Cairo
- Kalmyk; Oirat: Каир балһсн
- Kannada: ಕೈರೋ
- Kara-Kalpak: Al-Qahira
- Kashubian: Kairo
- Kazakh: Каир
- Kazakh: Қаһіра
- Kazakh: Әл-Қаһира
- Kazakh: Әл Қаһира
- Kikuyu: Cairo
- Kirghiz: Каир
- Komi: Каир
- Korean: 카이로
- Kurdish: Qahîre
- Ladin: L Cairo
- Ladino: El Kairo
- Lak: Кьагьира
- Lao: Cairo
- Latin: Cairus
- Latvian: Kaira
- Letzeburgesch: Kairo
- Lezghian: Каир
- Ligurian: O Cairo
- Limburgish, Limburger, Limburgan: Caïro
- Lingala: Kairo
- Lithuanian: Kairas
- Livvi: Kairo
- Lombard: El Cairo
- Low German; Low Saxon: Kairo
- Macedo Romanian: Cairo
- Macedonian: Каиро
- Madurese: Kairo
- Maithili: काइरो
- Malagasy: Kahira
- Malagasy: Kairo
- Malay (generic): Kaherah
- Malay (generic): قاهرة
- Malayalam: കെയ്റോ
- Manx: Cairo
- Maori: Kairo
- Marathi: कैरो
- Mazanderani: قاهره
- Min Dong Chinese: Cairo
- Min Nan Chinese: Cairo
- Minangkabau: Kairo
- Mingrelian: კაირო
- Mirandese: Cairo
- Moksha: Каир
- Mongolian: Каир
- Moroccan Spoken Arabic: لقاهرة
- Nauru: Cairo
- Neapolitan: 'O Cairo
- Neapolitan: Il cairo
- Nepali: कायरो
- Newari: कायरो
- Northern Frisian: Kairo
- Northern Luri: قاهره
- Northern Sami: Cairo
- Northern Sami: Kairo
- Norwegian: Kairo
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kairo
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kairo
- Novial: Kairo
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Lo Caire
- Oriya: କାଏରୋ
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Каир
- Panjabi: ਕਾਹਿਰਾ
- Panjabi: ਕੈਰੋ
- Papiamento: Kairo
- Persian: قاهره
- Piemontese: Ël Cairo
- Piemontese: Ël Càiro
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Cairo
- Polish: Kair
- Pontic: Κάιρον
- Portuguese: Cairo
- Pushto: قاهره
- Quechua: Qahira
- Raeto-Romance: Cairo
- Romanian: Cairo
- Russia Buriat: Каир
- Russian: Каир
- Russian: Эль-Кахира
- Rusyn: Кагіра
- Santali: ᱠᱟᱭᱨᱚ
- Sardinian: Cairo
- Schwyzerdütsch: Kairo
- Scots: Cairo
- Serbian: Каиро
- Serbo-Croatian: Kairo
- Shona: Cairo
- Sicilian: Cairu
- Sindhi: قاهره
- Sindhi: قاھرہ
- Sinhalese: කයිරෝව
- Slovak: Káhira
- Slovenian: Kairo
- Somali: Qaahiro
- Sorbian, Lower: Kairo
- Sorbian, Upper: Kairo
- South Azerbaijani: قاهیره
- Spanish: Cairo
- Spanish: El Cairo
- Sundanese: Kairo
- Swahili (generic): Kairo
- Swati: Cairo
- Swedish: Kairo
- Tagalog: Cairo
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Cairo
- Tajik: Қоҳира
- Tamil: காகிறா
- Tamil: கெய்ரோ
- Tamil: கைரோ
- Tatar: Каһирә
- Telugu: కైరో
- Thai: ไคโร
- Tibetan: ཁ་ཡི་རོ
- Tok Pisin: Kairo
- Tosk Albanian: Kairo
- Turkish: Kahire
- Turkmen: Kair
- Twi: Kairo
- Udmurt: Каир
- Uighur: Kayro
- Uighur: قاھىرە
- Uighur: كايرو
- Ukrainian: Каїр
- Urdu: قاہرہ
- Uzbek: Qohira
- Venetian: El Cairo
- Veps: Kair
- Vietnamese: Cairo
- Vlaams: Caïro
- Volapük: Kahirä
- Walloon: El Caire
- Waray (Philippines): Cairo
- Welsh: Cairo
- Western Mari: Каир
- Western Panjabi: قاہرہ
- Wolof: Xayra
- Wu Chinese: 开罗
- Yakut: Каир
- Yiddish: קיירא
- Yoruba: Káírò
- Yue Chinese: 開羅
- Zeeuws: Caïro
- Zulu: Cairo
- 'U Cairo
- Al Qāhirah
- El-Qâhira
- El Kahira
- El Kahirah
- In Cairo
- Kairs
- Kajir
- Masr
- Misr
Popular Destinations in Lower Egypt
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