Cairo

the Egyptian city of Cairo

Location

▶ Egypt, Africa, the world, North Africa, the Northern Hemisphere,  …

Al Qāhirah, US postal Group 8, the UK 'rest of the world' postal zone, Africa-Eurasia

Location of

▶ Giza; Confederation of African Football; Al-Azhar University; EgyptAir; Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria;  …

Egyptian Museum; Pacific Southwest Airlines; American University in Cairo; Zamalek; Battle of the Pyramids; Al-Ahram; Maadi; Ain Shams University; Fustat; Cairo Tower; Orascom Telecom Holding; AMC Airlines; Nasr; FIBA Africa; Borg El Arab Stadium; Old Cairo; National Democratic Party; Mobinil; Etisalat Egypt; Air Cairo; Flash Airlines; Vodafone Egypt; Air Sinai; Nasr City; Coptic Cairo; Cairo Opera House; EgyptAir Express; German University in Cairo; Modern Academy In Maadi; Air Memphis; Lotus Air; Islamic Cairo; British University in Egypt; Nile TV; Heliopolis; Al Rifa'i Mosque; El-Sheikh Zayed City; Air Madrid; Al-Ahram Weekly; Koubbeh Palace; British International School in Cairo; Central Bank of Egypt; Modern Academy For Engineering & Technology; Egyptian Presidential Palace; Leonardo da Vinci Art Institute; Misr International University; Commercial International Bank; Nile Air; Luxor Air; City Stars; Cairo Aviation; Cairo University School of Medicine; Khedivial Opera House; HSBC Bank Egypt; Dokki; Midwest Airlines; Blue Mosque, Cairo; Université Française d'Égypte; Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt; Orascom Construction Industries; City of the Dead; Giza Zoo; Banque du Caire; Tomorrow Party; Banque Misr; Cairo High School; Arab American Vehicles; Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine; Nile University; Challenger LTD; Sadat academy; Canadian International College; Future University in Egypt; El Shorouk Academy; KoralBlue Airlines; Confédération Africaine de Volleyball; Ain Shams; Smart Aviation Company; Americana Group; Modern Sciences and Arts University; Avial NV; Qala'un Mosque; El Fagr; Bab Zuweila; Azbakeya; Egyptian Military Academy; Boulaq; Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company; Military Technical College; Gezira Sporting Club; Egyptair Cargo; Boulak Bridge; Liberal Party; El-Quba; Higher Technological Institute; Shubra El-Kheima; Aldiwan Arabic Language Center; Al-Matariyyah; Sakakini; Salec; Misr El-Fatah Party; Faggala; Elsahel; Al Salih Tala'i Mosque; Zaafarana palace; Manshiyat naser; Rod El Farag; St. George's College, Cairo; Sabil-Kuttab of Katkhuda; Green Party of Egypt; Rhoda Island; ITWorx; Mokattam; American University in Cairo Law Department; Downtown Cairo; Ramses College; Battle of Ridaniya; Heliopolis Sporting Club; Lycée Al Horreya Héliopolis; Daher, Egypt; El-Manial; National Cancer Institute Egypt; Tahrir Square; National Conciliation Party; Revolt of Cairo; Gezira Island; Umma Party; EEC Group; el-Ghad Party; Arab Democratic Nasserist Party; Egypt Youth Party; Social Justice Party; Young Egypt Party; Egypt 2000 Party; Democratic Union Party; EELU; École Polytechnique du Caire; National Progressive Unionist Party; Mall of Arabia; Garden City; Abdeen; Arab Contractors; Cairo Military Academy Stadium; AlMasria Universal Airlines; Zeitoun; Democratic Peace Party; IT-Blocks; Ghabbour Group; Tour Egypt; Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles; El-Tagamu El Khames; Cairo 360; Free Social Constitutional Party; Aqmar Mosque; Yacoubian Building; Greater Cairo; Higher Technological Institute; Bavarian Auto Group; 2009 CAF Super Cup; Bab al-Louq; Conservative Party; Free Republican Party; Timeline Interactive; Egyptian Union of Liberal Youth; Sunnyland Films; Cairo Stadium Indoor Halls Complex; Arev; Arev; The Egyptian Gazette; Taya IT; City of the Dead; ENPPI; Saint Fatima School; Misr International Films; Shobra; Obour City; Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University; Kalousdian Armenian School; New Cairo; Gezira Center for Modern Art

Country, Time Zone Area

Egypt

Population

7,786,640; 18,000,000

Website

http://www.cairo.gov.eg/default.aspx, http://www.cairo.gov.eg, http://www.cairo.gov.eg/C15/C8/EHome/default.aspx

Area

453 square kilometres, 214 square kilometres

Population density

17,190 per square kilometre; 14,920 per square kilometre; 31,582 per square kilometre

Births

▶ Yasser Arafat, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Anwar Sadat, Dalida, Boutros Boutros-Ghali,  …

Ahmed Hossam, Ahmed Hossam, Thomas Dolby, Naguib Mahfouz, Tamer Hosny, Raffi, Farouk of Egypt, Mohamed Aboutreika, Mohamed ElBaradei, Alan Whicker, C. S. Forester, Atom Egoyan, Gamal Mubarak, Julian Fellowes, Fuad II of Egypt, Adel Emam, Sylvain Sylvain, Sharifa Dina bint 'Abdu'l-Hamid, Mickey Thomas, Hossam Hassan, Sherine, Nicholas Courtney, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Meriam George, Ruby, Nonie Darwish, Karim Rashid, Jehan Sadat, Leila Mourad, Amr Moussa, W. D. Hamilton, Samir Amin, Fuad I of Egypt, Nicola Pagett, Bat Ye'or, Hisham Abbas, Shadia, Hakim, Magdi Allam, Crowfoot, Mona Zaki, Alaa Abdelnaby, Isma'il Pasha, Hanan Tork, Teresa Edwards, Margaret Hodge, Penelope Lively, Noor, Dennis William Sciama, Abbas II of Egypt, Alia al Hussein, Mohamed Barakat, Hussein Fahmy, Alaa Al Aswany, Amr Shabana, Youssra, Narriman Sadek, Narriman Sadek, Magdi Yacoub, Suad Husni, Hany Ramzy, Fifi Abdou, Ahmed El Sakka, Michael Mina, Tewfik Pasha, Ghada Amer, Jehane Noujaim, Vassula Ryden, Sa'id of Egypt, Ahmed Ezz, Az-Zahir, Donald Hamilton, Daryle Singletary, Crow Foot, Hani Shaker, Basem Al Attar, Thurlow Weed, Dorothy Hodgkin, Al-Maqrizi, Nour El-Sherif, Hossam Ramzy, Laila Eloui, Ahmed Ramzy, Ihab Hassan, Hazem Emam, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Sherif Ekramy, Ekmeleddin ?hsano?lu, Amir Azmy, Nabila Ebeid, Mohamed Aly, Youssef Boutros Ghali, Shaaban Abdel Rahim, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Peter Donaldson, Derek Davis, Sherihan, Gamal Hamza, Ahmed Osman, Nadia Lutfi, Mark Seif, Maryem Tollar, Mohamed Elmasry, Marika Rökk, Ted Joans, Edmond Jabes, Hale Woodruff, Ramzi Saleh, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Atef Ebeid, Al-Aziz Uthman, Mike Beuttler, Boussy, Ayman Mohyeldin, Ibrahim Hassan, Jane Feather, Samir Ghanem, Saleh Selim, Taher Elgamal, Alifa Rifaat, Anwar Wagdi, Kent Walton, Princess Tamara Laura Czartoryska-Borbon, Hala Sedki, Ahmed Hassanein, Mohamed Sobhi, Alexander D'Arcy, Ahdaf Soueif, Farid Shawki, Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, Khaled Abol Naga, Benny Lévy, Ramses Wissa Wassef, Foad AlMohandess, Bill Stanfill, Hassan Mostafa, Amir Abdelhamid, Rosemarie Said Zahlan, Ezzel Dine Zulficar, Isaac Fanous, Spiros Zodhiates, Muhammad Hussein Yacoub, Leila Aboulela, Al-Mustansir of Cairo, Ahmed Abou Moslem, Moshe Marzouk, Soad Hosny, Ahmad El-Sayed, Kamal Ganzouri, Albert Cossery, Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil, Kamal Hassan Ali, Ismail Serageldin, Hassan Hamdy, Ali ibn Ridwan, Mohamed Fadl, Shwikar, Said Halim Pasha, Solamish, Salah Abu Seif, Andrée Chedid, Yakup Kadri Karaosmano?lu, André Green, Abdel Sattar Sabry, Bahaa Taher, Jackie Robinson, Mai Yamani, Omar Khairat, Ahmed Mazhar, Terence Otway, Voula Zouboulaki, Nerses Bedros XIX, Ann Cavoukian, Magdi Abdelghani, Aziz Sedki, Ibn al-Farid, Al-Qahir, Nadav Safran, Ahmed Shobair, Fathi Arafat, Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Raffi Armenian, Jani Christou, Constantin Xenakis, Manoly Lascaris, Goffredo Alessandrini, Ahmad Belal, Mahmoud Fawzi, Samir Khalil Samir, Maurice Zilber, Mahmoud Younis, John Derry, Hossam Ashour, Mostafa Shaban, Mohamed Abdel Wahed

Capital of

Egypt, United Arab Republic, Fatimid, Ayyubid dynasty, Kingdom of Egypt

Origin of

▶ Tamer Hosny, Sherine, Ruby, Leila Mourad, Hisham Abbas,  …

Mohamed Hamaki, Ehab Tawfik, Hani Shaker, Hossam Ramzy, Shaaban Abdel Rahim, Mohammad Fouad, Omar Samra, Zeezee Adel, Eftekasat, Joseph Tawadros, Amr Mostafa, Gehan Rateb, Mohamed Nour, Hamid El Shaeri, Karim Nagi

Elevation

23 metres

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo

Contents

▶ Confederation of African Football; EgyptAir; Pacific Southwest Airlines; Orascom Telecom Holding; AMC Airlines;  …

Nasr; Mobinil; Etisalat Egypt; Air Cairo; Flash Airlines; Vodafone Egypt; Air Sinai; EgyptAir Express; Air Memphis; Lotus Air; Nile Air; Luxor Air; Cairo Aviation; HSBC Bank Egypt; Midwest Airlines; Orascom Construction Industries; Banque du Caire; Banque Misr; Arab American Vehicles; Challenger LTD; Monginis; KoralBlue Airlines; Smart Aviation Company; Americana Group; Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company; Egyptair Cargo; Salec; St. George's College, Cairo; Shorouk Air; ITWorx; Ramses College; Maxman Group; ENPPI; Aghapy TV

Established

1835

Closest Airport

Cairo International Airport, Cairo West Airport

Deaths

▶ Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Aribert Heim, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Maimonides,  …

Anwar Sadat, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Ibn Khaldun, Naguib Mahfouz, Farouk of Egypt, Piri Reis, Umm Kulthum, Youssef Chahine, George Herbert, Sadat, Muhammad Naguib, Gottfried von Cramm, René Guénon, Hassan al Banna, Idris I of Libya, Fuad I of Egypt, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Abd el-Krim, Samia Gamal, Hassan Fathy, Günther Quandt, Lady Anne Blunt, Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i, May Ziade, Ahmad Zaki, Mostafa Mahmoud, Mohamed Abdelwahab, Farida of Egypt, Narriman Sadek, Narriman Sadek, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Sa'id of Egypt, Ismail Yasin, Rashid Rida, Ahmed Urabi, Auguste Mariette, Sanaa Gamil, John Ledyard, Stéphanos II Cardinal Ghattas, Al-Aziz Uthman, Ali Hassan Kuban, Youssef Wahbi, Murad, Félix Éboué, Alifa Rifaat, Walter Guinness, Ahmed Hassanein, Ahmad Zaki, Khalil, Foad AlMohandess, Ezzel Dine Zulficar, Isaac Fanous, Salama Moussa, E. Herbert Norman, Adel Adham, Mustafa Mahmud, Wasfi al-Tal, Ali ibn Ridwan, Ali Sabri, Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl, Nazik Al-Malaika, Atef Sedki, Thomas Seddon, Nicos Nicolaides, Andon Zako Çajupi, Mustafa Khalil, Fathi Arafat, Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Mahmoud Fawzi, Theodor Bilharz, Abdullah al-Tariki, Mian Hayauddin, Anoushka, Mahmud Shaltut, George Reisner, William Willcocks, Salah Jahin, Bernard Lyot, Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahawi, Queen Fatima, Thabet El-Batal, Salah Zulfikar, Hussein Al Shafei, Vahan Tekeyan, Mounir Mourad, Joe Walshe, Hassan al-Hudaybi, Jamil Mardam Bey, Mahmoud Mokhtar El-Tetsh, Fekry Abaza, Elias Moadab, Abdel Latif Boghdadi, Dominique Martin Dupuy, Khalil Mutran, Charles A. Watson, Khalil, Khalil, Fatima el-Sharif, Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds, Abo El Seoud El Ebiary, Joseph Sulkowski, Paul Ghalioungui, Muhammad Imaaduddeen VI, Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, Ignace Ephrem II Rahmani, Harry Hoogstraal, Mustafa Fahmi Pasha, Kamal Amin, Bahgat Osman, Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar, Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi, Louis Pierre Mouillard, Mohammad-Rezā Shāh, Hussein Refki Pasha, Injy Aflatoun, Hussein Kamel of Egypt, Melek Tourhan, Mowaffak Allaf, Ragheb Moftah, Husayn Kamil, Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour, Abdel Latif Boghdadi, Sir William Willcocks, Richard More

Coordinates

30°03'23.81"N, 30°03'29"N, 30°03'23"N, 31°13'34.44"E, 31°13'34"E

Pet Name

"The City of a Thousand Dildos", "Capital of the Arab World", "The City of a Thousand Minarets"

Residents

▶ Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Omar Sharif, Dalida, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Ahmed Hossam,  …

Raffi, Fuad II of Egypt, Michael Atiyah, Naguib Sawiris, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Bat Ye'or, Magdi Allam, Alaa Abdelnaby, Isma'il Pasha, Alia al Hussein, Marina Warner, Heba Kotb, Hamada Helal, Mohamed Elmasry, Mohammad Fouad, Moustafa Mosharafa, Salima Ikram, Ramses Wissa Wassef, Kamal Hassan Ali, Chafik Charobim, Nicos Nicolaides, Voula Zouboulaki, Aziz Sedki, Nadav Safran, Fathi Arafat, Goffredo Alessandrini, Mahmoud Younis, Ahmed Barada, Martin Hosking, Tewfik Abdullah, Gamal Abdel-Rahim, Tarek Ali Hassan, Ismail El Shafei, Mustafa Fazl Pasha, Attia Sharara, Gomaa, Hugh Miles, Mohannad Arafat, Rushdi Said, Ali Moustafa Mosharafa, Rifaat Garrana, Yitzhak Rager, Hassan Aziz Hassan, Samha El-Kholy, Nassef Sawiris

Alumni

Aliko Dangote

Representative

Rawya Ateya

The Area Served By

Cook Door

Class

▶ university city, film location, populated place, town or city, city,  …

area within a nation, settlement, tourist attraction, listed site, geographical area

Featured in

Baraka, Fair Game, Valley of the Kings, One-Zero, One-Zero

Theme of

Palace Walk

Gns Unique Feature Identifier

"-290692"

Freebase ID

"/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000000ec5a"

Related Websites

▶ http://www.sightseebyspace.com/view_link.php?txt_link_autoid=506, http://www.globalpost.com/video/global/100824/cairo-travel-egypt, http://www.mappedtravel.com/cairo/interactive-city-map.php, http://www.pascalmeunier.com/reportages_photos_en.php?piId=1269, http://www.pascalmeunier.com/reportages_photos_en.php?piId=308,  …

http://www.egypt.travel, http://www.maqrizi.com, http://www.vascoplanet.com/world/egypt/cairo, http://www.vimeo.com/1524704, http://egypt.travel-photo.org/cairo, http://egypt.mygreatworld.com/North/Nile%20Delta/Cities/Cairo, http://www.oldroads.org/Cairopage/cairopagehome.htm, http://www.yourworld360.com/wik/Egypt/Cairo/index.html, http://www.jmrw.com/Abroad/Egypte/Le_Caire/index.htm, http://www.tvclick.ru/channel/muscairo/12959, http://egyptopia.com/Mosques, http://st-takla.org/Links/Coptic-Links-02-Churches-a-Egypt.html#Cairo%20&%20Giza:, http://www.demographia.com/db-cairo.htm, http://worldarab.net/content/cairo, http://www.cairo.gov.eg/C15/C8/EHome/default.aspx

Founded here

Arab League, Al-Azhar University, Heliopolis Sporting Club, Ultra Egypt

Visited by

▶ Saladin, Yasser Arafat, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Robert Gibbs, Ibn Battuta,  …

Marwan al-Shehhi, Asmahan, Hastings Ismay, Rupert Downes

Open Calais URI

http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/14299e9d-4840-d755-5b16-67c266fdcae4

Buried

Farouk of Egypt, Umm Kulthum, Farid Al Atrache, Isma'il Pasha, Husayn Kamil

GeoNames URL

http://sws.geonames.org/360630/

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cairo

Met Office ID

"80"

Attributes

geographical parents are statically known

Aliases

"at cairo", "in cairo", "cairo"

Rare Terms

"cairo 1949", "le caire", "kairo"

Latitude North

the Nile Delta

Freebase Primary MID

"/m/01w2v"

Raised

Amr Diab