El Sahel

El-Sahel of Cairo is a district in the Northern Area of , . It used to form part of a larger district of that was established as a garden suburb of Cairo in the 19th century until it was subdivided in 1988 into the districts of al-Sahel, , and Shubra.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ramses Railway Station and Rawd El-Farag.

Railway station
Photo: Faris knight, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also called Misr Station, is the main railway station of , . The name is derived from the Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, whose statue was erected by former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser on the square there in 1955. is situated 3½ km south of El Sahel.

Metro station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a metro station.

Hospital
Photo: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, CC0.
is situated 3½ km southeast of El Sahel.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zamalek and Boulaq.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a qism within the West District in the Western Area of , . 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. is situated 3½ km southwest of El Sahel.

Suburb
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, is a district of , in . It neighbours , Azbakeya, and the River Nile. is situated 3½ km south of El Sahel.

Neighborhood
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is a district in the Western Area of , . According to the district map, and the census, it is subdivided into the qisms of al-Wayli and el-Daher, or al-Zahir. Some of their better known quarters are and . is situated 3½ km southeast of El Sahel.

El Sahel

Latitude
30.09203° or 30° 5′ 31″ north
Longitude
31.23752° or 31° 14′ 15″ east
Population
342,000
Open location code
8G2H36RQ+R2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 704920022
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Wiki­data ID
Q627248
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Satellite Map

Discover El Sahel from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“El Sahel” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الساحل”
  • Arabic: “حي الساحل، القاهرة”
  • Arabic: “حي الساحل، القاهره”
  • Arabic: “حي الساحل”
  • Arabic: “ساحل”
  • Dutch: “Elsahel”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الساحل”
  • French: “El Sahel”
  • Irish: “Elsahel”
  • Persian: “ساحل”
  • Spanish: “As-Sāḥil”
  • Swedish: “Elsahel”
  • Uzbek: “Al-Sahil”

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