Downtown Cairo

Downtown Cairo is the commercial heart of the modern city of . 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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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 , Egypt.

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

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Abdeen District is the home of Abdeen Palace, a 19th-century palace built by Khedive Ismail and served as the Egyptian royal household's primary official residence from 1874 until the 1952 Egyptian revolution.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Garden City and Arab League.

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is a well-planned and leafy district of central , 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.

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

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is the name commonly given to the core of medieval , a part of the city remarkably different from the modern Downtown district and the suburbs to the west.

Downtown Cairo

Latitude
30.0475° or 30° 2′ 51″ north
Longitude
31.2383° or 31° 14′ 18″ east
Open location code
8G2H26WQ+X8
Wiki­data ID
Q2933230
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Downtown Cairo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وسط البلد”
  • Arabic: “وسط القاهرة”
  • Arabic: “وسط القاهره”
  • Chinese: “开罗市中心”
  • Chinese: “開羅市中心”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وسط القاهره”
  • French: “Centre-ville du Caire”
  • French: “Le Caire khédivial”
  • German: “Downtown”
  • German: “Kairo Downtown”
  • Hindi: “काहिरा नगर क्षेत्र”
  • Irish: “Gnócheantar Chaireo”
  • Japanese: “カイロ中心市街地”
  • Japanese: “ダウンタウン・カイロ”
  • Persian: “مرکز شهر قاهره”
  • Persian: “وسط القاهره”
  • Russian: “Центр”
  • Russian: “Центральный Каир”
  • Scots: “Dountoun Cairo”
  • Spanish: “centro de El Cairo”
  • Spanish: “Centro de El Cairo”
  • Swedish: “Centrala Kairo”
  • Ukrainian: “Центр Каїру”
  • Ukrainian: “Центральний Каїр”
  • Urdu: “وسط البلد قاہرہ”
  • “Wust al Balad”

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