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Nasr City is the largest neighbourhood in Cairo by area, occupying nearly 250 km 2 (97 sq mi) of the capital's total area of 1,445 km 2 (558 sq mi). For this reason, it is divided into two districts (hayy): East Madīnat Naṣr (Qism Awwal) and West Madīnat Naṣr (Qism Than), [2] and 25 sub-districts that have become shiakhas (non-administrative census blocks), that have a mix of names, and ...
The city was called Pois (Ancient Greek: Πωις) [2] in Ptolemaic and Byzantine Egypt. The 1885 Census of Egypt recorded Bush (as Boche) as a nahiyah under the district of Beni Suef in Beni Suef Governorate; at that time, the population of the city was 7,091 (3,554 men and 3,537 women). [3]
Cairo (/ ˈ k aɪ r oʊ / ⓘ KY-roh; Arabic: القاهرة, romanized: al-Qāhirah, Egyptian Arabic: [el.qɑ(ː)ˈheɾɑ] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. [5]
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It borders Nasr City to the east, central Cairo districts to the west (Historic Cairo), and the Mokattam district to the south. A street in "Garbage City" It is famous for the Garbage City quarter, which is a slum settlement at the far southern end of Manshiyat Naser, at the base of Mokattam hills on the outskirts of Cairo.
New Cairo is built in the Eastern Desert to the east of the Cairo Ring Road and the modern 1950s extension of Nasr City, on a plateau that ranges in elevation between 250 and 307 metres (820 and 1,007 ft) above sea level. [8] The city could eventually host a population of 5 million. [9]
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.
The original Bab al-Nasr was built south of the present one by Fatimid general Jawhar as-Siqilli during the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Mu'izz, when the city was first laid out in 969. Later, the vizier Badr al-Jamali, under Caliph al-Mustansir, enlarged the city and rebuilt the walls in the late 11th century. He replaced the first gate with ...