Cairo
Cairo is in Illinois on a small strip of land in between Missouri and Kentucky as well as the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, made famous in Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn". The Ohio River bridge.Photo: hickory hardscrabble, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Zcarstvnz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 2,830 residents
- Description: city in Illinois, United States
- Postal code: 62914
Notable Places in the Area
Alexander County Courthouse
Courthouse
The Alexander County Courthouse is a government building in central Cairo, the county seat of Alexander County, Illinois, United States.
Localities in the Area
Future City
Hamlet
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Future City is an unincorporated community in Alexander County, Illinois, United States.
Cairo
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat and locality
- Location: Alexander, Southern Illinois, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.0058° or 37° 0' 21" northLongitude
-89.1772° or 89° 10' 38" westPopulation
2,830Elevation
95 metres (312 feet)IATA airport code
CIROpen Location Code
869G2R4F+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 153733096OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4234985Wikidata ID
Q575306Cairo Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Cairo, Illinois
- Arabic: القاهرة
- Asturian: Cairo
- Basque: Cairo (Illinois)
- Basque: Cairo
- Bengali: কেরো
- Catalan: Cairo
- Cebuano: Cairo
- Chechen: Кейро (Иллинойс)
- Chechen: Кейро
- Chinese: Cairo
- Chinese: 开罗
- Croatian: Cairo (Illinois)
- Croatian: Cairo
- Dagbani: Cairo
- Danish: Cairo
- Dutch: Cairo
- English: Cairo, IL
- English: Cairo, Illinois
- Esperanto: Cairo (Ilinojso)
- Esperanto: Cairo
- Finnish: Cairo (Illinois)
- French: Cairo
- German: Cairo
- Haitian: Cairo, Ilinwa
- Haitian: Cairo
- Hebrew: קהיר
- Hebrew: קיירו (אילינוי)
- Hebrew: קיירו
- Hungarian: Cairo
- Ido: Cairo
- Irish: Cairo
- Italian: Cairo
- Japanese: カイロ
- Korean: 케어로
- Ladin: Cairo (Illinois)
- Ladin: Cairo
- Malayalam: കെയ്റോ, ഇല്ലിനോയി
- Min Nan Chinese: Cairo
- Nepali: सियरो, इलियोनोई
- Newari: सियरो
- Norwegian Bokmål: Cairo, USA
- Persian: قاهره، ایلینوی
- Polish: Cairo
- Portuguese: Cairo
- Romanian: Cairo, Illinois
- Romanian: Cairo
- Russian: Кейро
- Serbian: Керо
- Serbo-Croatian: Cairo, Illinois
- Serbo-Croatian: Cairo
- South Azerbaijani: قاهره، ایلینوی
- Spanish: Cairo
- Spanish: Cairo (Illinois)
- Swedish: Cairo, Illinois
- Swedish: Cairo
- Tatar: Кейро (Иллинойс)
- Tatar: Кейро
- Turkish: Cairo, Illinois
- Ukrainian: Кейро
- Urdu: کائرو، الینوائے
- Uzbek: Cairo
- Uzbek: Cаиро
- Vietnamese: Cairo
- Volapük: Cairo
- Waray (Philippines): Cairo
- Welsh: Cairo, Illinois
Other Places Named Cairo
Localities in the Area
- Cairo Historic Park DistrictNeighbourhood
- Cairo Historic DistrictNeighbourhood
- Elmwood PlaceHamlet
- Cairo JunctionHamlet, 4 km north
- GreenfieldHamlet, 4½ km south
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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: Zcarstvnz, CC BY-SA 4.0.