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hide Cairo Metro, LRT, and monorail map The Cairo Light Rail Transit ( Arabic : القطار الكهربائي الخفيف) or Cairo LRT is an electrified regional rail system linking the city of Cairo to Egypt 's New Administrative Capital and the 10th of Ramadan City .
In May 2022, the contract was extended to encompass the complete 2000 km track with a budget totaling 8.1 billion Euros (US$8.7 billion). [5] In November 2022, DB International Operations, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, and the Egyptian Elsewedy Electric won the contract to operate and maintain Egypt's high-speed rail network after completion. [1]
8 Oct 2000: Cairo University جامعة القاهرة 30°1′34″N 31°12′4″E: 19 Apr 1999: El Bohoth البحوث 30°2′9″N 31°12′1″E: 19 Apr 1999: Dokki الدقي 30°2′18″N 31°12′43″E: 19 Apr 1999: Opera الأوبرا 30°2′31″N 31°13′31″E: 19 Apr 1999: Sadat السادات 30°2′40 ...
Wadi Feiran is an 81-mile (130 km) wadi on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Its upper reaches, around Jebel Musa, are known as the Wadi el-Sheikh. [3] It empties into the Red Sea's Gulf of Suez 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Abu Zenima. [1] Ptolemy identified the area as the site of Paran. [4] The nearby hill is the Tell Feiran.
Economic regions of Egypt Economic regions overlapping with the old governorate borders. Presidential Decree 495/1977 divided Egypt into eight (later seven after Matrouh was merged into Alexandria) economic regions for economic and physical planning purposes, that do not have any new administrative representation in the local government hierarchy.
Egypt claims the more favorable original border of 1899 along the 22nd degree north of latitude and therefore claims both the Halaib Triangle and the Wadi Halfa Salient, but not the Bir Tawil area. Since Sudan claims the amended border of 1902, it also claims the Halaib Triangle and the Wadi Halfa Salient, while no country claims the Bir Tawil ...
Zamalek (Arabic: الزمالك pronounced [ez.zæˈmæːlek], al zamalek) is a qism (ward) within the West District (hayy gharb) in the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. [1] It is an affluent district on a man-made island which is geologically a part of the west bank of the Nile River, with the bahr al-a'ma (Blind Canal) cut during the second half of the 19th Century to separate it from the west ...
Lake Moeris (Ancient Greek: Μοῖρις, genitive Μοίριδος) was an ancient endorheic freshwater lake located in the Faiyum Oasis, 80 km (50 mi) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, which persists today at a fraction of its former size as the hypersaline Lake Qarun (Arabic: بركة قارون).