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The GOPP works on preparing national plans, regional plans, strategic masterplans for cities, as well as urban plans for towns and villages across the country. [6]It has produced a series of masterplans for Greater Cairo, including the infamous Cairo 2050/2052 plan, [7] [8] that faced immediate criticism for its top-down mandates delivered as megaprojects that promised to displace large ...
The Greater Cairo Area and its surrounding region is classified as hot desert climate (BWh) in Köppen-Geiger classification, as all of Egypt.Cairo and its surrounding region have very similar day to day temperatures; however, the less populated parts at the east and the west do not experience the urban heat island effect, which makes them more prone to have soft hail.
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second ...
Today, along with the cities of Cairo and Giza, Shubra al-Kheima makes up the contiguous metropolitan area of Greater Cairo. In the 2017 census it was home to 1,161,514 people, [4] divided between two districts comprising five shiakhas (smallest non-administrative census blocks): [5] District 1: (hayy awwal): 481,936 people.
The Cairo Geniza is an accumulation of almost 200,000 Jewish manuscripts that were found in the genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue (built 882) of Fustat, Egypt (now Old Cairo), the Basatin cemetery east of Old Cairo, and a number of old documents that were bought in Cairo in the later 19th century. These documents were written from about 870 to ...
At least 10 Egyptian women and children died Tuesday when a small bus carrying about two dozen people slid off a ferry and plunged into the Nile River just outside Cairo, health authorities said.
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[2] [3] The establishment of the new headquarters aims to be the largest in the Middle East and the world, located in the New Capital, Greater Cairo. [4] The headquarters extends over a total area of 22,000 acres (89 km 2; 960,000,000 sq ft), with about 50,500,000 square feet (1,160 acres; 4,690,000 m 2) of it serving as floor area. [5]