East Cairo
The eastern districts of Cairo are a series of planned communities which have been built away from the congestion of historic Cairo. The most prominent communities are Heliopolis, Nasr City, and New Cairo.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Baron Empain Palace
Photo: Bishoy Samuel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Baron Empain Palace, also known as Le Palais Hindou, is a distinctive and historic mansion in Heliopolis, a suburb northeast of central Cairo, Egypt.
Lycée Al-Horreya
Lycée Al Horreya Héliopolis, also known as Lycée la Liberté d'Héliopolis is a French-language school in Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt.College de la Sainte Famille
The Collège de la Sainte Famille, often abbreviated as CSF and referred to as Jésuites, is a private French Catholic international school for boys run by the Near East province of the Society of Jesus in Cairo, Egypt.Localities in the Area
Al-Zaitoun
Zeitoun, also al-Zeitoun, is one of the eight districts that make up the Northern Area in Cairo, Egypt.East Cairo
- Type: Suburb with 142,000 residents
- Description: Cairo suburb
- Categories: sheyakha, geographic location and locality
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.1006° or 30° 6' 2" northLongitude
31.33291° or 31° 19' 59" eastPopulation
142,000Elevation
79 metres (259 feet)United Nations Location Code
EG HELOpen Location Code
8G2H482M+65OpenStreetMap ID
node 768591736OpenStreetMap Feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
352262Wikidata ID
Q2739389East Cairo Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: حي مصر الجديدة
- Arabic: ضاحية مصر الجديدة
- Arabic: مصر الجديدة
- Arabic: مصر الجديده
- Arabic: هليوبليس الجديدة
- Armenian: Հելիոպոլիս
- Catalan: Heliopolis
- Catalan: Heliòpolis
- Chinese: 太陽城
- Chinese: 赫利奧波利斯 (開羅郊區)
- Chinese: 赫里奧波里斯
- Danish: Heliopolis
- Dutch: Heliopolis (stadswijk)
- Dutch: Heliopolis
- Egyptian Arabic: مصر الجديده
- English: Heliopolis, Cairo
- English: Heliopolis
- English: Misr el Gadida
- Esperanto: Heliopolo
- Finnish: Heliopolis
- French: Heliopolis
- French: Héliopolis
- French: Héliopolis (Égypte) moderne
- Galician: Heliópolis
- German: Heliopolis
- Greek: Ηλιούπολη Καΐρου
- Hebrew: הליופוליס
- Hungarian: Heliopolisz
- Irish: Héileapoil
- Italian: Eliopoli
- Italian: Heliopolis
- Japanese: ヘリオポリス (カイロ)
- Japanese: ヘリオポリス
- Japanese: ミスル・アル=ジャディーダ
- Lithuanian: Heliopolis
- Persian: مصر الجدیده
- Persian: هلیوپلیس
- Polish: Heliopolis
- Portuguese: Heliopolis
- Portuguese: Heliópolis
- Russian: Гелиополис
- Russian: Гелиополь
- Spanish: Heliópolis
- Spanish: Heliópolis (El Cairo)
- Swedish: Heliopolis
- Swedish: Misr el-Gedida
- Urdu: عین شمس
- Urdu: مصر الجدیدہ
- Urdu: مصر جدیدہ
- Urdu: ہیلیوپولس
- Welsh: Heliopolis
- Western Panjabi: عین شمس
- Mişr al Jadīdah
- Miṣr el-Gedîda
Localities in the Area
- El BostanNeighbourhood
- Al NozhaNeighbourhood
- Armed Forces BuildingsNeighbourhood
- Abou Ghazala HousingNeighbourhood
- Al MuntazahNeighbourhood
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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 East Cairo. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.