East Cairo

The eastern districts of 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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  • Suburb with 145,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 79 metres (259 feet)
  • Description: Cairo suburb
  • Also known as
    “Heliopolis”
    “Heliopolis, Cairo”
    “Mişr al Jadīdah”
    “Miṣr el-Gedîda”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Basilica of Our Lady of Fatima and Baron Empain Palace.
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The Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima or just Chaldean…
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The , also known as Le Palais…
Héliopolis, also known as Lycée…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zeitoun.
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East Cairo

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Latitude
30.1006° or 30° 6′ 2″ north
Longitude
31.33291° or 31° 19′ 59″ east
UN/LOCODE
EG HEL
Open location code
8G2H482M+65
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768591736
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
352262
Wiki­data ID
Q2739389

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”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مصر الجديده”
  • Esperanto: “Heliopolo”
  • Finnish: “Heliopolis”
  • French: “Heliopolis”
  • French: “Héliopolis”
  • Galician: “Heliópolis”
  • German: “Heliopolis”
  • Greek: “Ηλιούπολη Καΐρου”
  • Hebrew: “הליופוליס”
  • Hungarian: “Heliopolisz”
  • Hungarian: “Héliopolisz”
  • Indonesian: “Heliopolis, Kairo”
  • Irish: “Héileapoil”
  • Italian: “Eliopoli”
  • Italian: “Heliopolis”
  • Italian: “Periferia orientale del Cairo”
  • 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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