Dokki and Mohandiseen
Dokki and Mohandiseen are districts in Giza suburb on the west bank of the Nile River, part of Greater Cairo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: quarter of al-Giza city, Egypt
- Also known as: “Al Muhandasin”, “Al Muhandasīn”, “Al Muhandisīn”, “El mohandesin”, “El Mohandesin”, “Madīnat al Muhandasīn”, “Mohandesin”, “Mohandiseen”, and “Mohandisin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Agricultural Museum and Gamet El Dowel.
Agricultural Museum
Park
Photo: Amr F.Nagy, Public domain.
The Agricultural Museum is a museum in Cairo, Egypt.
Gamet El Dowel
Metro station
Gamat El Dowal is a station in the Cairo University branch of Cairo Metro Line 3 that opened on 15 May 2024 as part of Phase 3C of the line. It is an underground station located beneath the street of the same name and serves the surrounding streets and areas.
Wadi El Nile
Metro station
Wadi El Nile is a station in the Cairo University branch of Cairo Metro Line 3 that opened on 15 May 2024 as part of Phase 3C of the line. It will be the transfer point to the western Cairo Monorail line.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gezira and Cairo.
Gezira
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Cairo
Photo: Mario modesto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Dokki
Suburb
Photo: Faris knight, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dokki (Arabic: الدقي, is one of nine districts that make up Giza city, which is part of Greater Cairo, in Egypt. Dokki is situated on the western bank of the Nile, directly across from Downtown Cairo.
Dokki and Mohandiseen
- Categories: sheyakha and locality
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.05° or 30° 3′ northLongitude
31.2° or 31° 12′ eastElevation
29 metres (95 feet)Open location code
8G2H25XX+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 768591708OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Dokki and Mohandiseen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المهندسين”
- Arabic: “حي المهندسين”
- Arabic: “شياخة المهندسين”
- Arabic: “مدينة المهندسين”
- Arabic: “مهندسين”
- Catalan: “Mohandesin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المهندسين”
- French: “El Mohandesin”
- French: “Mohandisseen”
- German: “al-Muhandisin”
- German: “El Mohandesin”
- German: “Mohandiseen”
- German: “Mohandisīn und Kīt Kāt”
- Hebrew: “מוהנדסין”
- Irish: “Mohandessin”
- Japanese: “モハンデシン”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mohandessin”
- Norwegian: “Mohandessin”
- Persian: “مهندسین”
- Polish: “Mohandessin”
- Russian: “Мохандисин”
- Swedish: “Mohandessin”
- Turkish: “Mühendesin”
- Urdu: “المہندسین”
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