Old Cairo

Old Cairo is the extensive district of southern from the southern boundary of down to the precinct commonly known as Coptic Cairo.
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  • Neighborhood with 270,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 25 metres (82 feet)
  • Description: historic area in Cairo, Egypt
  • Also known as
    “El Fostat”
    “El Fustat”
    “Fostat”
    “Masr al-Qadimah”
    “Maṣr al-ʿAtīkaẗ”
    “Mişr al Qadīmah”
    “Misr al-qadima”
    “Miṣr al-qadīmaẗ”
    “Misr El Qadima”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rhoda Island and Fustat.
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Roda Island is an island neighbourhood on the Nile…
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Fusṭāṭ was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, nowadays part of .
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The Amr ibn al-As Mosque is a , located in the neighbourhood of Old Cairo, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Garden City and Sayyidah Zainab District.
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is a well-planned and leafy district…
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Sayyidah Zainab is one of the old traditional districts of , .

Old Cairo

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Latitude
30.0174° or 30° 1′ 3″ north
Longitude
31.2332° or 31° 13′ 60″ east
Open location code
8G2H268M+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768552664
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
352261
Wiki­data ID
Q2993461

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Old Cairo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الفسطاط” (historical)
  • Arabic: “القاهرة القديمة”
  • Arabic: “حي مصر القديمة”
  • Arabic: “قسم مصر القديمة”
  • Arabic: “مصر العتيقة”
  • Arabic: “مصر العتيكة”
  • Arabic: “مصر القديمة”
  • Arabic: “مصر القديمه”
  • Armenian: “Հին Կահիրե”
  • Asturian: “Old Cairo”
  • Catalan: “Caire Vell”
  • Czech: “Stará Káhira”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حى مصر القديمه”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مصر القديمة”
  • Esperanto: “Malnova Kairo”
  • French: “Fostat”
  • French: “le vieux Caire”
  • French: “Vieux Caire”
  • French: “Vieux-Caire”
  • French: “Vieux Kaire” (historical)
  • German: “Alt-Kairo”
  • German: “Altkairo”
  • German: “Fustat”
  • Greek: “Παλαιό Κάιρο”
  • Hausa: “Tsohuwar Alkahira”
  • Hebrew: “העיר העתיקה של קהיר”
  • Indonesian: “Kairo Lama”
  • Irish: “Masr el Adima”
  • Irish: “Sean Caireo”
  • Italian: “Al-Fustat”
  • Italian: “Cairo Vecchia”
  • Italian: “Cairo Vecchio”
  • Japanese: “オールド・カイロ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gamle Kairo”
  • Norwegian: “Gamle Kairo”
  • Persian: “مصر القدیمه”
  • Polish: “Kair koptyjski”
  • Polish: “Stary Kair”
  • Portuguese: “Cairo Velho”
  • Portuguese: “Cairo/Cairo Velho”
  • Russian: “Старый город”
  • Russian: “Старый Каир”
  • Scots: “Auld Cairo”
  • Slovenian: “Stari Kairo”
  • Spanish: “Miṣr al-Qadīmah”
  • Swedish: “Gamla Kairo”
  • Tamil: “பழைய கெய்ரோ”
  • Ukrainian: “Старий Каїр”
  • Urdu: “قدیم قاہرہ”
  • Uzbek: “Eski Qohira”
  • Western Panjabi: “قدیم قاہرہ”

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