Cairo Neighborhoods

Neighborhoods

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  • Dokki

    Dokki is a largely residential area to the west of the River Nile, opposite...
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  • Downtown Cairo

    Downtown Cairo (also known as wust al-balad - the "centre of town") was...
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  • Garden City

    Garden City is a small, green and affluent neighbourhood of Cairo that...
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  • Giza

    Giza is complicated! Technically, the whole of the city west of the Nile...
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  • Heliopolis

    Heliopolis is a sprawling residential and commercial area in the north-east...
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  • Islamic Cairo

    Islamic Cairo is the city at its most exotic, chaotic and exhilarating;...
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  • Old Cairo

    Old Cairo, known in Egyptian as Masr al-Qadima, is technically the area...
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  • Zamalek

    The River Nile flows from south to north through Cairo, splitting the city...
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  • Imbaba

    Imbaba is a poor neighbourhood on the west bank of Cairo. It's just north...
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  • Agouza

    Agouza is a small, thin neighbourhood in Cairo that runs along the west...
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  • Mohandiseen

    Mohandiseen is a relatively large neighbourhood on the west bank of Cairo,...
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  • Maadi

    Maadi is an expat and embassy enclave about 12 km south of Downtown, on...
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  • 6th October City

    6th October City is another new Cairo satellite city, similar to New Cairo....
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  • New Cairo

    New Cairo, known in Egyptian as al-Qahira al-Gadida, is a new city built...
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  • Nasr City

    Known in Egyptian as Medinat Nasr, Nasr City is a satellite town that grew...