Cairo: Area
Places and attractions in the Area category
Categories
- Mosque
- Museum
- Historical place
- History museum
- Church
- Pyramid
- Palace
- Mausoleum
- Art museum
- Islamic architecture
- Synagogue
- Sacred and religious sites
- Park
- Area
- Specialty museum
- Archaeological site
- Unesco
- Bridge
- Science museum
- Shopping
- Neighbourhood
- City
- Library
- Sport
- Sport venue
- Arenas and stadiums
El Qanater El Khayreya
El Qanater El Khayreya is a city and a markaz in Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt. It is the location of the Delta Barrages, the first modern irrigation structure across the Nile, located at the apex of the Nile Delta.
Abusir
Abusir is the name given to an Egyptian archaeological locality – specifically, an extensive necropolis of the Old Kingdom period, together with later additions – in the vicinity of the modern capital Cairo.
Giza
Giza is the second-largest city in Egypt after Cairo and fourth-largest city in Africa after Kinshasa, Lagos and Cairo. It is the capital of Giza Governorate with a total population of 9.2 million as of 2021.
Cairo/Gezira
Island with cultural and sporting sites Gezira is an island in the Nile River, in central Cairo, Egypt. The southern portion of the island contains the Gezira district, and the northern third contains the Zamalek district.
Shubra El Kheima
Shubra El Kheima, is the fourth-largest city in Egypt after Cairo, Giza and Alexandria. It is located in the Qalyubia Governorate along the northern edge of the Cairo Governorate. It forms part of the Greater Cairo agglomeration.
Cairo/Ma'adi
Maadi is a leafy suburban district south of Cairo, Egypt, on the east bank of the Nile about 12 kilometers upriver from downtown Cairo. The Nile at Maadi is parallelled by the Corniche, a waterfront promenade and the main road north into Cairo.
Heliopolis
Heliopolis was a major city of ancient Egypt. It was the capital of the 13th or Heliopolite Nome of Lower Egypt and a major religious centre. It is now located in Ayn Shams, a northeastern suburb of Cairo. Heliopolis was one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt, occupied since the Predynastic Period.
Imbaba
Imbaba is a working-class neighbourhood in northern Giza, Egypt, located west of the Nile and northwest of and near Gezira Island and downtown Cairo, within the Giza Governorate.
El Hawamdeya
El Hawamdeya is a city in the Giza Governorate of Egypt. Successive census results indicate a considerable steady rise in its population - 73,298 in 1986, 91,732 in 1996, 109,468 in and 113,128 in 2008.
Fustat
Fustat, also Fostat, Al Fustat, Misr al-Fustat and Fustat-Misr, was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, and the historical centre of modern Cairo.
Al-Askar
Al-‘Askar was the capital of Egypt from 750–868, when Egypt was a province of the Abbasid Caliphate.
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