Back Al-Qahirah ACE Каир ADY Kaïro AF Kairo ALS ካይሮ AM O Caire AN Cāirō ANG काहिरा ANP القاهرة Arabic لقاهرة ARY
Cairo القاهرة (in Arabic) al-Qāhira | |
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Ceety | |
 Top left: Cairo Ceety Centre; top richt: Ibn Tulun Mosque; Middle: Cairo Citadel; Bottom left: Nile Felucca; Bottom middle: Cairo Touer; Bottom richt: Muizz Street | |
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| Eik-name(s): The Ceety o a Thoosan Minarets, Caipital o the Arab Warld | |
  Cairo Egyp: Steid o Cairo (top center) | |
| Coordinates: 30°3′29″N 31°13′44″E / 30.05806°N 31.22889°ECoordinates: 30°3′29″N 31°13′44″E / 30.05806°N 31.22889°E | |
| Kintra |  Egyp |
| Govrenorate | Cairo |
| Govrenment | |
| • Govrenor | Abdel Qawi Khalifa |
| Area | |
| • Ceety | 453 km2 (175 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 6,640 km2 (2,560 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 86,369 km2 (33,347 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 23 m (75 ft) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Ceety | 11.6 million |
| • Density | 17190/km2 (44,500/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 17,290,000 |
| • Metro | 19,439,541 |
| • Demonym | Cairene |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| Area code(s) | 2 |
| Website | www.cairo.gov.eg |
Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة, al-Qāhira, Egyptian Arabic: القاهره, literally "The Vanquisher" or "The Conqueror") is the caipital ceety o Egyp, the lairgest ceety in Africae an the Arab Warld, an ane o the maist densely populatit ceeties in the warld.[1][2]
Nicknamed "The Ceety o a Thoosan Minarets" for its preponderance o Islamic airchitectur, Cairo haes lang been a centre o the region's poleetical an cultural life. Even afore Cairo wis established in the 10t century, the land composin the present-day ceety wis the site o naitional caipitals whose remnants remain visible in pairts o Auld Cairo. Cairo is an aa associatit wi Auncient Egyp due tae its proximity tae the Great Sphinx an the pyramids in adjacent Giza.
Egyptians the day aften refer tae Cairo as Maṣr (Arabic:مصر), the Arabic pronunciation o the name for Egyp itsel, emphasizin the ceety's continued role in Egyptian influence.[3][4] Cairo haes the auldest an lairgest film an muisic industries in the Arab Warld, as well as the warld's seicont-auldest institution o hichter learnin, al-Azhar University. Mony internaitional media, businesses, an organisations hae regional heidquarters in the ceety, an the Arab League haes haed its heidquarters in Cairo for maist o its existence.
- ↑ http://www.prlog.org/10332580-cairo-alqahira-is-egypts-capital-and-the-largest-city-in-the-middle-east-and-africa.html Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Warld's Densest Cities". Forbes. 21 December 2006. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
- ↑ Behrens-Abouseif 1992, p. 8
- ↑ Golia 2004, p. 152