Old Cairo
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.Photo: Baldiri, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Blago Tebi, CC BY 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Rhoda Island
Roda Island is an island neighbourhood in the Nile in central Cairo, alternatively or partially…Mosque of ‘Amr ibn al-‘Āṣ
Photo: Buyoof, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Amr ibn al-As Mosque is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt.
Fustat
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fustat, also Fostat, was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, and the historical centre of modern Cairo.
Old Cairo
- Type: Neighbourhood with 258,000 residents
- Description: historic area in Cairo, Egypt
- Categories: sheyakha and locality
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.0174° or 30° 1' 3" northLongitude
31.2332° or 31° 13' 60" eastPopulation
258,000Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)Open Location Code
8G2H268M+X7OpenStreetMap ID
node 768552664OpenStreetMap Feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
352261Wikidata ID
Q2993461Old Cairo Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic (Historic): الفسطاط
- Arabic: القاهرة القديمة
- Arabic: حي مصر القديمة
- Arabic: قسم مصر القديمة
- Arabic: مصر العتيكة
- Arabic: مصر القديمة
- Arabic: مصر القديمه
- Armenian: Հին Կահիրե
- Czech: Stará Káhira
- Egyptian Arabic: حى مصر القديمه
- Egyptian Arabic: مصر القديمة
- English: Fostat
- English: Misr El Qadima
- Esperanto: Malnova Kairo
- French (Historic): Vieux Kaire
- French: Fostat
- French: Vieux-Caire
- French: Vieux Caire
- French: le vieux Caire
- German: Alt-Kairo
- German: Altkairo
- German: Fustat
- Greek: Παλαιό Κάιρο
- Hebrew: העיר העתיקה של קהיר
- Irish: Masr el Adima
- Irish: Sean Caireo
- Italian: Al-Fustat
- Italian: Cairo Vecchia
- Japanese: オールド・カイロ
- Norwegian: Gamle Kairo
- Norwegian Bokmål: Gamle Kairo
- Polish: Kair koptyjski
- Polish: Stary Kair
- Portuguese: Cairo/Cairo Velho
- Portuguese: Cairo Velho
- Russian: Старый Каир
- Russian: Старый город
- Scots: Auld Cairo
- Slovenian: Stari Kairo
- Spanish: Miṣr al-Qadīmah
- Swedish: Gamla Kairo
- Tamil: பழைய கெய்ரோ
- Ukrainian: Старий Каїр
- Urdu: قدیم قاہرہ
- El Fostat
- El Fustat
- Masr al-Qadimah
- Maṣr al-ʿAtīkaẗ
- Misr al-qadima
- Misr al Qadimah
- Mişr al Qadīmah
- Miṣr al-qadīmaẗ
Localities in the Area
- Al Anwar and Eshash Al BaroudNeighbourhood
- Fom Al Khalig and Der El NahasNeighbourhood
- Abo Al So'oud and Al MadabeghNeighbourhood
- East Al ManialNeighbourhood
- Al ManyalSuburb
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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 Old Cairo. Photo: Blago Tebi, CC BY 3.0.