Cairo
Cairo is in Illinois on a small strip of land in between Missouri and Kentucky as well as the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, made famous in Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,830 residents
- Description: city in Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Cairo, IL” and “Cairo, Illinois”
- Postal code: 62914
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alexander County Courthouse.
Alexander County Courthouse
Courthouse
The Alexander County Courthouse is a government building in central Cairo, the county seat of Alexander County, Illinois, United States. Built in the 1960s, it is the latest in a series of courthouses erected in four towns across Alexander County.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Future City.
Future City
Hamlet
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Future City is an unincorporated community in Cache Precinct, Alexander County, Illinois, United States. Future City is located along U.S. Route 51 north of Cairo, and south of Urbandale.
Cairo
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Alexander, Southern Illinois, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.0058° or 37° 0′ 21″ northLongitude
-89.1772° or 89° 10′ 38″ westPopulation
2,830Elevation
312 feet (95 metres)IATA airport code
CIROpen location code
869G2R4F+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 153733096OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Cairo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القاهرة”
- Asturian: “Cairo”
- Basque: “Cairo”
- Bengali: “কেরো”
- Catalan: “Cairo”
- Cebuano: “Cairo”
- Chechen: “Кейро”
- Chinese: “Cairo”
- Chinese: “开罗”
- Croatian: “Cairo”
- Dagbani: “Cairo”
- Danish: “Cairo”
- Dutch: “Cairo”
- Esperanto: “Cairo”
- Finnish: “Cairo”
- French: “Cairo”
- German: “Cairo”
- Gilaki: “کایرو (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “کایرو”
- Haitian: “Cairo, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Cairo”
- Hebrew: “קהיר”
- Hebrew: “קיירו (אילינוי)”
- Hebrew: “קיירו”
- Hungarian: “Cairo”
- Ido: “Cairo, Illinois”
- Ido: “Cairo”
- Irish: “Cairo”
- Italian: “Cairo”
- Japanese: “カイロ”
- Korean: “케어로”
- Ladin: “Cairo”
- Malayalam: “കെയ്റോ, ഇല്ലിനോയി”
- Malayalam: “കെയ്റോ”
- Mazanderani: “قاهره (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “قاهره”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cairo”
- Newari: “सियरो, इलियोनोई”
- Newari: “सियरो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cairo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cairo”
- Persian: “قاهره، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “قاهره”
- Polish: “Cairo”
- Portuguese: “Cairo”
- Romanian: “Cairo, Illinois”
- Romanian: “Cairo”
- Russian: “Кейро”
- Serbian: “Керо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cairo, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cairo”
- South Azerbaijani: “قاهره، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Cairo (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Cairo”
- Swedish: “Cairo, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Cairo”
- Tatar: “Кейро”
- Turkish: “Cairo, Illinois”
- Turkish: “Cairo”
- Ukrainian: “Кейро”
- Urdu: “کائرو، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “کائرو”
- Uzbek: “Cairo”
- Uzbek: “Cаиро”
- Vietnamese: “Cairo, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Cairo”
- Volapük: “Cairo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cairo, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cairo”
- Welsh: “Cairo, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Cairo”
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