East Cairo
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- Type: Suburb with 145,000 residents
- Description: Cairo suburb
- Also known as: “Heliopolis”, “Heliopolis, Cairo”, “Mişr al Jadīdah”, “Misr el Gadida”, and “Miṣr el-Gedîda”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Baron Empain Palace and Lycée Al-Horreya.
Baron Empain Palace
Photo: Bishoy Samuel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Baron Empain Palace, also known as Le Palais Hindou, is a distinctive and historic mansion in Heliopolis, a suburb northeast of central Cairo, Egypt.
Lycée Al-Horreya
School
Lycée Al Horreya Héliopolis, also known as Lycée la Liberté d'Héliopolis is a French-language school in Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt.
College de la Sainte Famille
School
The Collège de la Sainte Famille, often abbreviated as CSF and referred to as Jésuites, is a private French Catholic international school for boys run by the Near East province of the Society of Jesus in Cairo, Egypt.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zeitoun.
Zeitoun
Suburb
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Zeitoun, also al-Zeitoun, is one of the eight districts that make up the Northern Area in Cairo, Egypt. It is known for its Marian apparitions at the Coptic Church of the Virgin Mary of Zeitoun, reported in 1968–1971.
East Cairo
- Categories: sheyakha, geographic location, and locality
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.1006° or 30° 6′ 2″ northLongitude
31.33291° or 31° 19′ 59″ eastPopulation
145,000Elevation
79 metres (259 feet)United Nations Location Code
EG HELOpen location code
8G2H482M+65OpenStreetMap ID
node 768591736OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“East Cairo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حي مصر الجديدة”
- Arabic: “ضاحية مصر الجديدة”
- Arabic: “مصر الجديدة”
- Arabic: “مصر الجديده”
- Arabic: “هليوبليس الجديدة”
- Armenian: “Հելիոպոլիս”
- Catalan: “Heliopolis”
- Catalan: “Heliòpolis”
- Chinese: “太陽城”
- Chinese: “赫利奧波利斯 (開羅郊區)”
- Chinese: “赫里奧波里斯”
- Danish: “Heliopolis”
- Dutch: “Heliopolis (stadswijk)”
- Dutch: “Heliopolis”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مصر الجديده”
- Esperanto: “Heliopolo”
- Finnish: “Heliopolis”
- French: “Héliopolis (Égypte) moderne”
- French: “Heliopolis”
- French: “Héliopolis”
- Galician: “Heliópolis”
- German: “Heliopolis”
- Greek: “Ηλιούπολη Καΐρου”
- Hebrew: “הליופוליס”
- Hungarian: “Heliopolisz”
- Indonesian: “Heliopolis, Kairo”
- Irish: “Héileapoil”
- Italian: “Eliopoli”
- Italian: “Heliopolis”
- Japanese: “ヘリオポリス (カイロ)”
- Japanese: “ヘリオポリス”
- Japanese: “ミスル・アル=ジャディーダ”
- Lithuanian: “Heliopolis”
- Persian: “مصر الجدیده”
- Persian: “هلیوپلیس”
- Polish: “Heliopolis”
- Portuguese: “Heliopolis”
- Portuguese: “Heliópolis”
- Russian: “Гелиополис”
- Russian: “Гелиополь”
- Slovenian: “Heliopolis”
- Slovenian: “Misr el Gadida”
- Spanish: “Heliópolis”
- Swedish: “Heliopolis”
- Swedish: “Misr el-Gedida”
- Urdu: “عین شمس”
- Urdu: “مصر الجدیدہ”
- Urdu: “مصر جدیدہ”
- Urdu: “ہیلیوپولس”
- Welsh: “Heliopolis”
- Western Panjabi: “عین شمس”
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