Union Building

Union Building is a building in Giza Governorate, Egypt. Union Building is situated nearby to the government office Ministry of Culture, as well as near Embassy of Argentina.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gezira and El-Sawy Cultural Wheel.

Gezira

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Gezira is a district of modern Cairo that occupies the southern portion of the main island in the Nile within Cairo itself; in fact, gezira means "island" in Arabic.

El-Sawy Cultural Wheel

Arts center

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El Sawy Culture Wheel is a cultural center on Gezira Island in the Zamalek district on central Cairo, Egypt. Named after its founder and owner, Abdelmoniem El-Sawy, it is considered one of the most important cultural venues in Egypt and receives more than 20,000 visitors each month. El-Sawy Cultural Wheel is situated 300 metres north of Union Building.

Aquarium

Park

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Aquarium is a park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zamalek and Cairo.

Zamalek

Suburb

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Zamalek is a qism within the West District in the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. It is an affluent district on a man-made island which is geologically a part of the west bank of the Nile River, with the bahr al-a'ma cut during the second half of the 19th Century to separate it from the west bank proper.

Cairo

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Cairo is the capital of Egypt and, with a total population of Greater Cairo metropolitan area in excess of 16 million people, one of the largest cities in both Africa and the Middle East.