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In the year 2000, the Fifth Settlement, along with the nearby First and Third Settlements, were incorporated as New Cairo. [4] [5] According to the 2017 census, it had 135,834 residents,: [6] [7] while the latest estimate puts it at 145,286 residents in 2023. [2]
Trans Amadi [1] is a thousand-hectare (2,500-acre) industrial area, as well as a diverse residential neighborhood, in the city of Port Harcourt. Situated at 4°48'53" N latitude and 7°2'14" E longitude , the neighborhood supports a strong manufacturing sector and is considered to be a major industrial zone in Port Harcourt .
The area of Al Waily was known as the Square of Qaraqush, where it was used as polo grounds by the 12th Century Ayyubid regent Qaraqush, north west of Cairo's walls. [3] After the conquest of Cairo by the Mamluks , the new sultan al-Zahir Baybars built his eponymous mosque over the polo grounds in 1268.
The New Administrative Capital (NAC) [1] [2] (Arabic: العاصمة الإدارية الجديدة, romanized: al-ʿĀṣima al-ʾIdārīya al-Gadīda) is the placeholder name for a new urban community in Cairo Governorate, Egypt and a satellite of Cairo City. It is planned to be Egypt's new capital and has been under construction since 2015. [3]
The culture was concentrated around Merimde Beni Salama, the main settlement site, located in the West delta of the Nile in Lower Egypt 45 km northwest of Cairo.The site was discovered by German archaeologist Hermann Junker, who excavated 6,400 m 2 of the site during his West Nile Delta expedition in 1928.
El Marg. El Marg (Arabic: المرج pronounced [elˈmæɾɡ]) is a district in the Eastern Area of Cairo, [1] Egypt, bordering Qalyubia Governorate near Shubra El Kheima.It was separated from the El Salam district (to its south) on 1 April 1994.
In the 1850s, the area was renovated during the rule of Isma'il Pasha in his plan to build a modern Cairo. Currently the well known Soor Elazbakeya (meaning the fence of Azbakeya) is a used books market [ 13 ] that originated by a gathering of used books traders by the fence of the Azbakeya garden in 1926.
The Rod El Farag Bridge over the Nile river, which is part of the Tahya Misr Axis crossing the Egyptian capital of Cairo, built by the Egyptian company Arab Contractors, is the world's widest cable-stayed bridge [8] [9] built over the course of 4 years until it was completed in 2019, achieving the Guinness World Record with a width of 67.3 meters.