Cairo
القاهرة
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Nickname: The City of a Thousand Minarets
Location of Cairo within Egypt
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Show map of Africa Coordinates:30°2′40″N 31°14′9″E / 30.04444°N 31.23583°E /30.04444; 31.23583 Country Egypt Governorate Cairo Founded 969 CE Founded by Fatimid dynasty Government
• Governor Atef Abd El Hamid[ 1] Area • Metropolis 214 km2 (83 sq mi) • Metro
17,267.6 km2 (6,667.1 sq mi) Elevation
23 m (75 ft) Population (2017)
• Metropolis 19,500,000 • Density 19,376/km2 (50,180/sq mi) • Urban
18,290,000 • Metro
20,439,541 • Demonym
Cairene Time zone UTC+2 (EET )Area code (+20) 2 Website www.cairo.gov.eg Official name Historic Cairo Type Cultural Criteria i, iii, vi Designated 1979 Reference no. [ 3] State Party Egypt Region Arab States
The town center of Cairo, seen from the Cairo tower. A map of Egypt. Cairo is the light green spot. Cairo (Arabic :القاهرة , usuallytransliterated asAl-Qāhirah ) is thecapital and largest city inEgypt . The city name can be translated asthe one who won .
Cairo has 7,947,121 people. About 17,290,000 people live in itsurban area . This makes it the biggest city of theArab World .[ 4] Africa
The city is on theNile River .
The city of Cairo has ahot desert climate (BWh), meaning it has a hot, sunny and dry climate a year long. The city, however, has morehumidity than other cities with the hot desert climate (BWh).
Climate data for Cairo Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Record high °F (°C) 88.0 93.6 100.2 109.8 118.0 115.5 108.7 110.1 110.7 106.0 99.3 86.4 118.0 Average high °F (°C) 66.0 68.7 74.3 82.9 90.0 93.0 94.5 93.6 90.7 84.6 76.6 68.5 82.0 Daily mean °F (°C) 56.5 58.8 62.4 70.2 76.1 81.1 81.7 81.3 79.0 73.9 66.0 59.0 70.5 Average low °F (°C) 48.0 49.5 52.9 58.3 63.9 68.2 72.0 71.8 68.9 63.3 57.4 50.7 60.4 Record low °F (°C) 34.2 38.5 41.0 45.7 54.1 61.0 64.8 66.0 58.1 54.1 41.4 37.0 34.2 Averageprecipitation inches (mm) 0.20 0.15 0.15 0.04 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.03 0.15 0.23 0.97 Source:World Meteorological Organization (UN)[ 5] [ 6]
The area around the city was an important focal point ofAncient Egypt .
In 968, theFatimids entered Egypt and they made Cairo the capital of theircaliphate .[ 7]
TheAl Azhar mosque anduniversity was made in972 . This became the world's oldest university. It is the most widely knownseminary in theIslamic world .[ 8]
In 1992, Cairo was devastated by a5.8 magnitude earthquake that caused 545 deaths, injuring 6,512, and made 50,000 people homeless, the most destructive since 1847.
The Egyptian museum The greatpyramids ofGiza and thestep pyramid of Sakkara are just outside of the city.[ 8]
TheEgyptian Museum holds the world’s largest collection of antiquities from the time of the ancientPharaohs . Many treasures from the tomb of KingTutankhamun are in this museum.[ 8]
People from Cairo are called 'Cairenes'.
Abu Sa'id al-Afif - Fifteenth Century SamaritianBoutros Boutros-Ghali , former Secretary-General of the United NationsNaguib Mahfouz , novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.Mido , Professional soccer player with Middlesbrough F.CMohamed ElBaradei , Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency 2005 Nobel Peace Prize laureateNaguib Sawiris , 62nd richest person on earth in a 2007 list of billionaires, reaching US$10.0 billion with his company Orascom Telecom HoldingFarouk El Baz , a great contributor to NASASir Magdi Yacoub , leading cardiologist, knightConstantin Xenakis (1931) Greek artistVoula Zouboulaki (1931) Greek actress↑ "محافظ القاهرة يرفض تطوير المستثمرين الحدائق.. ويؤكد: "هيسحلوا الغلابة" . Retrieved14 September 2016 .↑ "Cairo | national capital, Egypt" .Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved2020-07-21 .↑ UNESCO World Heritage Centre."Historic Cairo – UNESCO World Heritage Centre" . Whc.unesco.org. Retrieved2017-09-20 . ↑ Demographia World Urban Areas & Population Projections (PDF) , Demographia, April 2009, retrieved9 July 2009 ↑ "Weather Information for Cairo" . World Meteorological Organization. RetrievedApril 14, 2014 .↑ "Cairo (A) Climate Normals 1961–1990" . National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. RetrievedApril 14, 2014 .↑ Beeson, Irene."Cairo, a Millennial," Archived 2007-09-30 at theWayback Machine Saudi Aramco World. September/October 1969, pp. 24, 26-30. ↑8.0 8.1 8.2 Hedges, Chris."What's Doing in Cairo," New York Times. January 8, 1995.
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