New Capital
The New Capital is the current official name for the new capital of Egypt, 45 km east of Cairo in Lower Egypt.Photo: Mohamed Ouda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: U.S. Department of State, Public domain.
- Type: City
- Description: Fourth-generation Egyptian city
- Also known as: “New Administrative Capital”, “New Administrative Capital of Egypt”, “The New Capital”, “العاصمة الإدارية”, “العاصمة الجديدة لمصر”, and “مدينة وديان”
New Capital
- Categories: New Capital, big city, project, planned national capital, political city, and locality
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.0238° or 30° 1′ 26″ northLongitude
31.7549° or 31° 45′ 18″ eastElevation
291 metres (955 feet)Open location code
8G2H2QF3+GXOpenStreetMap ID
node 7152775457OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“New Capital” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Die Nuwe Hoofstad”
- Afrikaans: “Nuwe administratiewe hoofstad”
- Arabic: “العاصمة الإدارية الجديدة”
- Arabic: “العاصمة الجديدة”
- Arabic: “مدينة العاصمة الجديدة”
- Armenian: “Նոր վարչական մայրաքաղաք”
- Azerbaijani: “Misirin yeni paytaxtı”
- Belarusian: “Новая сталіца Эгіпту”
- Belarusian: “Новая Сталіца Эгіпту”
- Bengali: “নতুন প্রশাসনিক রাজধানী”
- Bulgarian: “Нова египетска столица”
- Catalan: “nova capital administrativa d’Egipte”
- Catalan: “Nova capital administrativa d’Egipte”
- Central Kurdish: “پایتەختی کارگێڕی نوێ”
- Chinese: “埃及新首都”
- Chinese: “新行政首都”
- Chinese: “新首都”
- Croatian: “Nova Administrativna Prijestolnica (Egipat)”
- Croatian: “Nova Prijestolnica”
- Czech: “Nové administrativní hlavní město”
- Danish: “Egyptens nye hovedstad”
- Danish: “Ny administrativ hovedstad”
- Danish: “Wedian”
- Danish: “Wudian”
- Danish: “Wudyan”
- Danish: “Wudyān”
- Dutch: “Nieuwe Administratieve Hoofdstad van Egypte”
- Dutch: “Nieuwe Administratieve Hoofdstad”
- Dutch: “proposed new capital of Egypt”
- Dutch: “Wudian”
- Dutch: “Wudyan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “العاصمة الجديدة”
- Egyptian Arabic: “العاصمه الجديده”
- Esperanto: “Nova Administra Ĉefurbo”
- Esperanto: “Nova egipta ĉefurbo”
- Estonian: “Egiptuse uus pealinn”
- Finnish: “Egyptin uusi pääkaupunki”
- French: “Al-Masa”
- French: “nouvelle capitale administrative égyptienne”
- French: “Nouvelle capitale administrative égyptienne”
- French: “Nouvelle capitale administrative”
- French: “nouvelle capitale égyptienne”
- French: “Nouvelle capitale égyptienne”
- French: “Sissi city”
- French: “Wedian”
- French: “Wudian”
- French: “Wudyan”
- French: “Wudyān”
- German: “Die neue Hauptstadt”
- German: “Neue Hauptstadt Ägyptens”
- German: “Neue Verwaltungshauptstadt”
- German: “The New Capital”
- Greek: “Νέα Διοικητική Πρωτεύουσα”
- Greek: “Νέα Πρωτεύουσα”
- Hebrew: “בירת מצרים החדשה”
- Hebrew: “הבירה החדשה”
- Hungarian: “Egyiptom tervezett fővárosa”
- Hungarian: “Egyiptom Tervezett Fővárosa”
- Hungarian: “Új-Memphisz”
- Hungarian: “Wedian”
- Irish: “Príomhchathair Nua Riaracháin na hÉigipte”
- Italian: “Nuova Capitale Amministrativa”
- Italian: “Nuova Capitale”
- Italian: “Wudian”
- Italian: “Wudyan”
- Japanese: “エジプト首都移転構想”
- Japanese: “新行政首都”
- Korean: “신행정수도 (이집트)”
- Korean: “신행정수도”
- Korean: “이집트 신행정수도”
- Lithuanian: “Naujoji Egipto sostinė”
- Moroccan Arabic: “العاصمة الجديدة”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Egypts nye hovedstad”
- Norwegian: “Egypts nye hovedstad”
- Ossetian: “Мысыры ног сæйраг сахар”
- Persian: “العاصمه الاداریه”
- Persian: “پایتخت جدید اداری مصر”
- Polish: “Nowa Stolica Administracyjna”
- Polish: “Nowa Stolica”
- Portuguese: “Futura capital egípcia”
- Portuguese: “Nova Capital Administrativa”
- Portuguese: “Nova capital”
- Russian: “Новая столица Египта”
- Russian: “Новая столица”
- Slovenian: “Novo upravno glavno mesto Egipta”
- Slovenian: “Vudjan”
- South Azerbaijani: “پایتخت جدید پیشنهادی میصر”
- South Azerbaijani: “میصرین یئنی پایتختی”
- Spanish: “Futura capital de Egipto”
- Spanish: “Nueva Capital Administrativa”
- Swedish: “Egyptens nya huvudstad”
- Swedish: “Wudian”
- Swedish: “Wudyan”
- Tajik: “Пойтахти нави идории Миср”
- Turkish: “Mısır’ın yeni başkenti”
- Turkish: “Yeni başkent”
- Ukrainian: “Нова столиця Єгипту”
- Ukrainian: “Нова Столиця Єгипту”
- Ukrainian: “Нова столиця”
- Urdu: “نیا انتظامی دار الحکومت”
- Urdu: “نیا دار الحکومت”
- Uzbek: “Misrning yangi poytaxti”
- Uzbek: “Yangi poytaxt”
- Zulu: “Isiqongo Esisha”
- Zulu: “New administrative capital of Egypt”
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