Cairo

Cairo is the capital of and, with a total population of Greater Cairo metropolitan area in excess of 16 million people, one of the largest cities in both and the .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Giza and Cairo International Airport.

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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 , the city just west of Cairo, where on a desert plateau stand the Pyramids, Sphinx and royal tombs of the pharaohs.

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is in , to the northeast of the city around 15 km from Cairo's city centre.

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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 to Discover

Explore places such as Downtown Cairo and Ma’adi.

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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.

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Ma'adi is a leafy and formerly suburban district of Cairo, south of the city center on the eastern bank of the Nile. Ma'adi was established in 1904, when a railway was built through the area to connect Cairo and Helwan to the south.

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is the extensive district of southern Cairo from the southern boundary of down to the precinct commonly known as Coptic Cairo.

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is a district of modern Cairo that occupies the southern portion of the main island in the Nile within Cairo itself; in fact, means "island" in Arabic.

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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. The most prominent communities are Heliopolis, Nasr City, and New Cairo. is also located in this area, just to the east of Heliopolis.

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is a well-planned and leafy district of central Cairo, immediately south of the very centre of the modern city at Midan Tahrir. In 1905 the agricultural architect Jose Lamba was asked by the owners of the Nile Land and Agricultural Company to design a new city.

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are districts in Giza suburb on the west bank of the Nile River, part of Greater Cairo.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Egyptian Museum and Tahrir Square.

Museum
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The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the and also called the Cairo Museum or the in Cairo, is a national history museum in Cairo, Egypt.

Square
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, also known as Martyr Square, is a public town square in , . The square has been the location and focus for political demonstrations.

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The is a free-standing concrete in Cairo, . At 187 m, it was the tallest structure in Egypt for 37 years until 1998, when it was surpassed by the Suez Canal overhead powerline crossing.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arab League and El Sahel.

Locality
The , officially the League of Arab States, is a regional organisation in the Arab world. The was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945, initially with seven members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, , , Syria, and North Yemen.

Neighborhood
of Cairo is a district in the Northern Area of Cairo, . It used to form part of a larger district of that was established as a garden suburb of Cairo in the 19th century until it was subdivided in 1988 into the districts of al-Sahel, , and Shubra.

Suburb
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Sayyidah Zainab is one of the old traditional districts of Cairo, . Its name is based on the presence of the Sayyidah Zainab Mosque. It is known for its traditional restaurants, it also has the Qal'at al-Kabsh neighbourhood, which is one of the famous areas in the district, and the Ibn Tulun Mosque.

Cairo

Latitude
30.0571° or 30° 3′ 26″ north
Longitude
31.2252° or 31° 13′ 31″ east
Population
9,120,000
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
IATA airport code
CAI
United Nations Location Code
EG CAI
Open location code
8G2H364G+R3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 271613766
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
360630
Wiki­data ID
Q85
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Cairo” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Al-Qahirah”
  • Adyghe: “Каир”
  • Afrikaans: “Kaïro”
  • Albanian: “Kajro”
  • Amharic: “ካይሮ”
  • Angika: “काहिरा”
  • Arabic: “القاهرة”
  • Arabic: “القاهره”
  • Arabic: “قاهرة المعز”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الالف مئذنة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة القاهرة”
  • Aragonese: “O Caire”
  • Armenian: “Կահիրե”
  • Arpitan: “Lo Cayiro”
  • Arpitan: “Lo Quèro”
  • Assamese: “কাইৰো”
  • Asturian: “El Cairo”
  • Asturian: “El Cairu”
  • Avaric: “Къагьира”
  • Awadhi: “काइरो”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qahirə”
  • Balinese: “Kairo”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡаһирә”
  • Basque: “Kairo”
  • Batak Toba: “Kairo”
  • Belarusian: “Каір”
  • Bengali: “কায়রো”
  • Bhojpuri: “काहिरा”
  • Bhojpuri: “कैरो”
  • Bosnian: “Kairo”
  • Breton: “Kaero”
  • Bulgarian: “Кайро”
  • Burmese: “ကိုင်ရိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Caire”
  • Catalan: “el Caire”
  • Catalan: “El Caire”
  • Cebuano: “Caire”
  • Cebuano: “Cairo”
  • Central Bikol: “Cairo”
  • Central Kanuri: “Cairo”
  • Central Kurdish: “قاھیرە”
  • Chavacano: “El Cairo”
  • Chechen: “КъахӀира”
  • Cheyenne: “Cairo”
  • Chinese: “Cairo”
  • Chinese: “开罗”
  • Chinese: “開羅”
  • Chuvash: “Каир”
  • Coptic: “ϯⲕⲉϣⲣⲱⲙⲓ”
  • Cornish: “Cairo”
  • Corsican: “Cairu”
  • Corsican: “U Cairu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Qaire”
  • Croatian: “Kairo”
  • Czech: “Káhira”
  • Danish: “Cairo”
  • Danish: “Kairo”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Qahira”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Qahire”
  • Dotyali: “काइरो”
  • Dutch: “Cairo”
  • Dutch: “Caïro”
  • Eastern Mari: “Каир”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “القاهره”
  • Erzya: “Каир ош”
  • Esperanto: “Kairo”
  • Estonian: “Kairo”
  • Extremaduran: “El Cairu”
  • Faroese: “Keiro”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Cairo”
  • Finnish: “Kairo”
  • French: “Caire”
  • French: “Cairo”
  • French: “Le Caire”
  • Friulian: “El Cairo”
  • Friulian: “Il Cairo”
  • Galician: “Al-Qahira”
  • Galician: “O Cairo”
  • Georgian: “კაირო”
  • Georgian: “ქაირო”
  • German: “Kairo”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Cairo”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Qahira”
  • Greek: “Κάιρο”
  • Guarani: “Káiro”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Kèro”
  • Gujarati: “કાઈરો”
  • Gujarati: “કૈરો”
  • Haitian: “Lekè”
  • Haitian: “Li Kè”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cairo”
  • Hausa: “Kairo”
  • Hausa: “Qahira”
  • Hebrew: “קהיר”
  • Hindi: “काहिरा”
  • Hindi: “क़ाहिरा”
  • Hungarian: “Kairó”
  • Icelandic: “Kaíró”
  • Ido: “Kairo”
  • Iloko: “Cairo”
  • Inari Sami: “Kairo”
  • Indonesian: “Kairo”
  • Ingush: “Каир”
  • Interlingua: “Cairo”
  • Interlingue: “Cairo”
  • Irish: “Caireo”
  • Italian: “Cairo”
  • Italian: “Il Cairo”
  • Japanese: “カイロ”
  • Javanese: “Kairo”
  • Kabiyè: “Kɛɛrɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Taqahirt”
  • Kalaallisut: “Cairo”
  • Kalmyk: “Каир балһсн”
  • Kannada: “ಕೈರೋ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Al-Qahira”
  • Kashmiri: “قاہرہ”
  • Kashmiri: “کیرو”
  • Kashubian: “Kairo”
  • Kazakh: “Әл Қаһира”
  • Kazakh: “Әл-Қаһира”
  • Kazakh: “Каир”
  • Kazakh: “Қаһіра”
  • Kikuyu: “Cairo”
  • Kirghiz: “Каир”
  • Komering: “Kairo”
  • Komi: “Каир”
  • Korean: “카이로”
  • Kotava: “Alkaira”
  • Kurdish: “Qahîre”
  • Ladin: “L Cairo”
  • Ladino: “El Kairo”
  • Lak: “Кьагьира”
  • Lao: “ໄຄໂຣ”
  • Latin: “Cahere”
  • Latin: “Cairus”
  • Latvian: “Kaira”
  • Lezghian: “Каир”
  • Ligurian: “O Cairo”
  • Limburgan: “Caïro”
  • Lingala: “Kairo”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Qahira”
  • Literary Chinese: “開羅”
  • Lithuanian: “Kairas”
  • Livvi: “Kairo”
  • Lombard: “El Cairo”
  • Low German: “Kairo”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kairo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kairo”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Cairo”
  • Macedonian: “Каиро”
  • Madurese: “Kairo”
  • Maithili: “काइरो”
  • Malagasy: “Kahira”
  • Malagasy: “Kairo”
  • Malay: “Kaherah”
  • Malay: “قاهرة”
  • Malayalam: “കെയ്റോ”
  • Maltese: “Kajr”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯥꯏꯔꯣ”
  • 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 Arabic: “لقاهرة”
  • Nauru: “Cairo”
  • Navajo: “Yadaazʼáhíłání”
  • Neapolitan: “’O Cairo”
  • Neapolitan: “Il cairo”
  • Nepali: “कायरो”
  • Newari: “कायरो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kairo”
  • Northern Luri: “قاهره”
  • Northern Sami: “Cairo”
  • Northern Sami: “Kairo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kairo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kairo”
  • Norwegian: “Kairo”
  • Novial: “Kairo”
  • Nyanja: “Cairo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lo Caire”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cāirō”
  • Oriya: “କାଏରୋ”
  • Ossetian: “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”
  • Romanian: “Cairo”
  • Romansh: “Cairo”
  • Russia Buriat: “Каир”
  • Russian: “Каир”
  • Russian: “Эль-Кахира”
  • Rusyn: “Кагіра”
  • Sakizaya: “Kay-luo”
  • Samogitian: “Kairs”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱟᱭᱨᱚ”
  • Sardinian: “Càiru”
  • Sardinian: “Su Càiru”
  • Scots: “Cairo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Qàhira”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Caireo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cairo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Qàhira”
  • Serbian: “Каиро, Египат”
  • Serbian: “Каиро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kairo”
  • Shona: “Cairo”
  • Sicilian: “Cairu”
  • Sicilian: “Lu Cairu”
  • Sicilian: “U Cairu”
  • Silesian: “Kajir”
  • Sindhi: “قاهره”
  • Sindhi: “قاھرہ”
  • Sinhala: “කයිරෝ”
  • Sinhala: “කයිරෝව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kairo”
  • Slovak: “Káhira”
  • Slovenian: “Kairo”
  • Somali: “Qaahiro”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قاهیره”
  • Spanish: “Cairo”
  • Spanish: “El Cairo”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵇⴰⵀⵉⵔⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Kairo”
  • Swahili: “Kairo”
  • Swati: “Cairo”
  • Swedish: “Kairo”
  • Swiss German: “Kairo”
  • Tachelhit: “Qahira”
  • Tagalog: “Cairo”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Cairo”
  • Tajik: “Қоҳира”
  • Talysh: “Kahirə”
  • Tamil: “காகிறா”
  • Tamil: “கெய்ரோ”
  • Tamil: “கைரோ”
  • Tatar: “Каһирә”
  • Telugu: “కైరో”
  • Thai: “ไคโร”
  • Tibetan: “ཁ་ཡི་རོ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Kairo”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kairo”
  • Tumbuka: “Cairo”
  • Turkish: “Kahire”
  • Turkmen: “Kair”
  • Twi: “Kairo”
  • Tyap: “Kairo”
  • Udmurt: “Каир”
  • Uighur: “Kayro”
  • Uighur: “قاھىرە”
  • Ukrainian: “Каїр”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kairo”
  • Urdu: “القاہرہ”
  • Urdu: “قاہرہ”
  • Urdu: “کائرو”
  • Uzbek: “Qohira”
  • Venetian: “El Cairo”
  • Veps: “Kair”
  • Vietnamese: “Cairo”
  • Vlaams: “Caïro”
  • Vlax Romani: “Cairo”
  • Volapük: “Kahirä”
  • Võro: “Kairo”
  • Walloon: “El Caire”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cairo”
  • Welsh: “Cairo”
  • Western Armenian: “Գահիրէ”
  • Western Frisian: “Kairo”
  • 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”
  • Zulu: “i-Cairo”
  • “‘U Cairo”
  • “’U Cairo”
  • “al-Qāhira”
  • “El Cairo”
  • “Kairo”
  • “Kairs”
  • “ma tomo Akajela”
  • “ma tomo Kajela”
  • “Q85”
  • “القاهرة”
  • “काहिरा”

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