Cairo
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.Photo: Es.kmalo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Popular Destinations
Giza
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Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land.
Downtown Cairo
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Downtown Cairo is the commercial heart of the modern city of Cairo.
Islamic Cairo
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Islamic Cairo is the name commonly given to the core of medieval Cairo, a part of the city remarkably different from the modern Downtown district and the suburbs to the west.
Destinations
Ma'adi
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Ma'adi a suburban district of Cairo, to the south of the city center on the eastern bank of the Nile, consists of two distinct areas, Old Ma'adi and New Ma'adi.
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.
Old Cairo
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Old Cairo is the extensive district of southern Cairo from the southern boundary of Garden City down to the precinct commonly known as Coptic Cairo.
East Cairo
The eastern districts of Cairo are a series of planned communities which have been built away from the congestion of historic Cairo.Garden City
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Garden City is a well-planned and leafy district of central Cairo, immediately south of the very centre of the modern city at Midan Tahrir.
Dokki and Mohandiseen
Dokki and Mohandiseen are districts in Giza suburb on the west bank of the Nile River, part of Greater Cairo.Photo: KennyOMG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Notable Places in the Area
Tahrir Square
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Tahrir Square, also known as "Martyr Square", is a major public town square in downtown Cairo, Egypt.
Egyptian Museum
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, commonly known as simply the Egyptian Museum, located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world.Cairo Tower
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The Cairo Tower is a free-standing concrete tower in Cairo, Egypt.
Localities in the Area
Hadaiq el Qubbah
Hadaek al-Qubbah is a district in the Northern Area of Cairo, Egypt.Dokki
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Dokki (Arabic: الدقي, is one of nine districts that make up Giza city, which is part of Greater Cairo, in Egypt.
Boulaq
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Boulaq, is a district of Cairo, in Egypt. It neighbours Downtown Cairo, Azbakeya, and the River Nile.
Cairo
- Type: City with 9,120,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Egypt
- Categories: capital city, big city, million city, megacity, largest city, metropolis, ancient city, tourist destination, primate city and locality
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.0571° or 30° 3' 26" northLongitude
31.2252° or 31° 13' 31" eastPopulation
9,120,000Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)IATA airport code
CAIUnited Nations Location Code
EG CAIOpen Location Code
8G2H364G+R3OpenStreetMap ID
node 271613766OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
360630Wikidata ID
Q85Cairo Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Taqahirt
- Achinese: Al-Qahirah
- Adyghe: Каир
- Afar: Al-Qahira
- Afrikaans: Kaïro
- Akan: Cairo
- Albanian: Kajro
- Amharic: ካይሮ
- Angika: काहिरा
- Arabic: Cairo
- Arabic: القاهرة
- Arabic: القاهره
- Arabic: قاهرة المعز
- Arabic: مدينة الالف مئذنة
- Arabic: مدينة القاهرة
- Aragonese: O Caire
- Armenian: Գահիրէ
- Armenian: Կահիրե
- Arpitan: Lo Cayiro
- Arpitan: Lo Quèro
- Asturian: El Cairu
- Avaric: Alkaira
- Avaric: Каир
- Avaric: Къагьира
- Awadhi: काइरो
- Azerbaijani: Qahirə
- Balinese: Kairo
- Bashkir: Ҡаһирә
- Basque: Kairo
- Belarusian: Каір
- Bengali: কায়রো
- Bhojpuri: काहिरा
- Bhojpuri: कैरो
- Bosnian: Kairo
- Breton: Kaero
- Bulgarian: Кайро
- Burmese: ကိုင်ရိုမြို့
- Catalan: El Caire
- Catalan: el Caire
- Cebuano: Caire
- Cebuano: Cairo
- Central Bikol: Cairo
- Central Kurdish: قاھیرە
- Chavacano: El Cairo
- Chechen: КъахӀира
- Cheyenne: Cairo
- Chinese: Cairo
- Chinese: 开罗
- Chinese: 開羅
- Chuvash: Каир
- Cornish: Cairo
- Corsican: Cairu
- Corsican: U Cairu
- Crimean Tatar: Qaire
- Croatian: Kairo
- Czech: Káhira
- Danish: Cairo
- Danish: Kairo
- Dimli (individual language): Qahire
- Dotyali: काइरो
- Dutch: Cairo
- Dutch: Caïro
- Eastern Mari: Каир
- Egyptian Arabic: القاهره
- English: Cairo, Egypt
- Erzya: Каир ош
- Esperanto: Kairo
- Estonian: Kairo
- Extremaduran: El Cairu
- Faroese: Keiro
- Fiji Hindi: Cairo
- Finnish: Kairo
- French: Caire
- French: Cairo
- French: Le Caire
- French: Le Kaire
- Friulian: El Cairo
- Galician: Al-Qahira
- Galician: Cairo - القاهرة
- Galician: O Cairo
- Georgian: კაირო
- Georgian: ქაირო
- German: Kairo
- German: al-Qāhira
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Cairo
- Greek: Κάιρο
- Guarani: Káiro
- Guianese Creole French: Kèro
- Gujarati: કાઈરો
- Gujarati: કૈરો
- Haitian: Lekè
- Haitian: Li Kè
- Hakka Chinese: Cairo
- Hausa: Cairo
- Hausa: Kairo
- Hebrew: קהיר
- Hindi: काहिरा
- Hungarian: Kairó
- Icelandic: Kaíró
- Ido: Kairo
- Iloko: Cairo
- Inari Sami: Kairo
- Indonesian: Kairo
- Ingush: Каир
- Interlingua: Cairo
- Interlingue: Cairo
- Irish: Caireo
- Italian: Cairo
- Italian: Il Cairo
- Japanese: カイロ
- Javanese: Kairo
- Kabiyè: Kɛɛrɩ
- Kabyle: Taqahirt
- Kalaallisut: Cairo
- Kalmyk: Каир балһсн
- Kannada: ಕೈರೋ
- Kara-Kalpak: Al-Qahira
- Kashubian: Kairo
- Kazakh: Каир
- Kazakh: Қаһіра
- Kazakh: Әл-Қаһира
- Kazakh: Әл Қаһира
- Kikuyu: Cairo
- Kirghiz: Каир
- Komi: Каир
- Korean: 카이로
- Kotava: Alkaira
- Kurdish: Qahîre
- Ladin: L Cairo
- Ladino: El Kairo
- Lak: Кьагьира
- Lao: Cairo
- Lao: ໄຄໂຣ
- Latin: Cairus
- Latvian: Kaira
- Lezghian: Каир
- Ligurian: O Cairo
- Limburgan: Caïro
- Lingala: Kairo
- Lingua Franca Nova: Qahira
- Literary Chinese: 開羅
- Lithuanian: Kairas
- Livvi: Kairo
- Lombard: El Cairo
- Low German: Kairo
- Lower Sorbian: Kairo
- Luxembourgish: Kairo
- Macedo-Romanian: Cairo
- Macedonian: Каиро
- Madurese: Kairo
- Maithili: काइरो
- Malagasy: Kahira
- Malagasy: Kairo
- Malay: Kaherah
- Malay: قاهرة
- Malayalam: കെയ്റോ
- Maltese: Kajr
- Manipuri: ꯀꯥꯏꯔꯣ
- Manx: Cairo
- Maori: Kairo
- Marathi: कैरो
- Mazanderani: قاهره
- Min Dong Chinese: Cairo
- Min Nan Chinese: Cairo
- Minangkabau: Kairo
- Mingrelian: კაირო
- Mirandese: Cairo
- Moksha: Каир
- Mongolian: Каир
- Mongolian: ꯀꯥꯏꯔꯣ
- Moroccan Arabic: لقاهرة
- Nauru: Cairo
- Navajo: Yadaazʼáhíłání
- Neapolitan: 'O Cairo
- Neapolitan: Il cairo
- Nepali: कायरो
- Newari: कायरो
- Northern Frisian: Kairo
- Northern Luri: قاهره
- Northern Sami: Cairo
- Northern Sami: Kairo
- Norwegian: Kairo
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kairo
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kairo
- Novial: Kairo
- Nyanja: Cairo
- Occitan (post 1500): Lo Caire
- Oriya: କାଏରୋ
- Ossetian: Каир
- Panjabi: ਕਾਹਿਰਾ
- Panjabi: ਕੈਰੋ
- Papiamento: Kairo
- Persian: قاهره
- Piemontese: Ël Cairo
- Piemontese: Ël Càiro
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Cairo
- Polish: Kair
- Pontic: Κάιρον
- Portuguese: Cairo
- Pushto: قاهره
- Quechua: Qahira
- Romanian: Cairo
- Romansh: Cairo
- Russia Buriat: Каир
- Russian: Каир
- Russian: Эль-Кахира
- Rusyn: Кагіра
- Samogitian: Kairs
- Santali: ᱠᱟᱭᱨᱚ
- Sardinian: Cairo
- Scots: Cairo
- Scottish Gaelic: Cairo
- Serbian: Каиро
- Serbo-Croatian: Kairo
- Shona: Cairo
- Sicilian: Cairu
- Silesian: Kajir
- Sindhi: قاهره
- Sindhi: قاھرہ
- Sinhala: කයිරෝව
- Skolt Sami: Kairo
- Slovak: Káhira
- Slovenian: Kairo
- Somali: Qaahiro
- South Azerbaijani: قاهیره
- Spanish: Cairo
- Spanish: El Cairo
- Sundanese: Kairo
- Swahili: Kairo
- Swati: Cairo
- Swedish: Kairo
- Swiss German: Kairo
- Tagalog: Cairo
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Cairo
- Tajik: Қоҳира
- Tamil: காகிறா
- Tamil: கெய்ரோ
- Tamil: கைரோ
- Tatar: Каһирә
- Telugu: కైరో
- Thai: ไคโร
- Tibetan: ཁ་ཡི་རོ
- Tok Pisin: Kairo
- Tosk Albanian: Kairo
- Turkish: Kahire
- Turkmen: Kair
- Twi: Kairo
- Udmurt: Каир
- Uighur: Kayro
- Uighur: قاھىرە
- Ukrainian: Каїр
- Upper Sorbian: Kairo
- Urdu: القاہرہ
- Urdu: قاہرہ
- Urdu: کائرو
- Uzbek: Qohira
- Venetian: El Cairo
- Veps: Kair
- Vietnamese: Cairo
- Vlaams: Caïro
- Vlax Romani: Cairo
- Volapük: Kahirä
- Võro: Kairo
- Walloon: El Caire
- Waray (Philippines): Cairo
- Welsh: Cairo
- Western Armenian: Գահիրէ
- Western Frisian: Kairo
- Western Mari: Каир
- Western Panjabi: قاہرہ
- Wolof: Xayra
- Wu Chinese: 开罗
- Yakut: Каир
- Yiddish: קיירא
- Yoruba: Káírò
- Yue Chinese: 開羅
- Zeeuws: Caïro
- Zulu: Cairo
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Cairo. Photo: Mario modesto, CC BY-SA 3.0.