Al Awkaf Housing
Al Awkaf Housing is a neighborhood in Giza Governorate, Egypt. Al Awkaf Housing is situated nearby to the neighborhood Al Omal and Al Tahrir City, as well as near Al Baladia Housing.Places of Interest
Highlights include Gezira and Egyptian Museum.
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.
Egyptian Museum
Museum
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The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum and also called the Cairo Museum or the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, is a national history museum in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian Museum is situated 4 km south of Al Awkaf Housing.
Ramses Railway Station
Railway station
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Ramses Railway Station, also called Misr Station, is the main railway station of Cairo, Egypt. 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. Ramses Railway Station is situated 3 km southeast of Al Awkaf Housing.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include El Sahel and Zamalek.
El Sahel
Neighborhood
El-Sahel of Cairo is a district in the Northern Area of Cairo, Egypt. It used to form part of a larger district of Shubra 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, Rod El Farag, and Shubra.
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.
Al Awkaf Housing
- Type: Neighborhood
- Categories: residential area and locality
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.08189° or 30° 4′ 55″ northLongitude
31.22104° or 31° 13′ 16″ eastOpen location code
8G2H36JC+QCOpenStreetMap ID
way 774724713OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
“Al Awkaf Housing” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مساكن الاوقاف”
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