Al Awkaf Housing

Al Awkaf Housing is a neighborhood in , . Al Awkaf Housing is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gezira and Egyptian Museum.

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

Museum
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The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the and also called the Cairo Museum or the in Cairo, is a national history museum in , Egypt. is situated 4 km south of Al Awkaf Housing.

Railway station
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, 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 3 km southeast of Al Awkaf Housing.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include El Sahel and Zamalek.

Neighborhood
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.

Suburb
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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.

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

Al Awkaf Housing

Latitude
30.08189° or 30° 4′ 55″ north
Longitude
31.22104° or 31° 13′ 16″ east
Open location code
8G2H36JC+QC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 774724713
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
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In Other Languages

“Al Awkaf Housing” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مساكن الاوقاف”

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