Al Qāhirah al Jadīdah
Cairo is one of the 27 governorates of Egypt.
Cairo is one of the 27 governorates of Egypt. It consists of the city of Cairo, both the capital city of Egypt and the governorate capital, in addition to six satellite cities: The New Capital, which became the official seat of national government in April 2024, New Cairo, a suburban satellite city built in the 2000s, El Shorouk, Badr, Capital Gardens, and 15th of May. These cities form almost half of the Greater Cairo metropolitan area by population.
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Worth seeing in and around Al Qāhirah al Jadīdah
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Cairo University
Cairo University is a public university in Giza, Egypt. Founded on 21 December 1908, the university is the second oldest institution of higher education in Egypt after Al-Azhar University, notwithstanding the pre-existing higher professional schools that later became constituent colleges of the university.
900 m · public university with its main campus in Giza, Egypt · Wikipedia - 02Egyptian Museum
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum and also called the Cairo Museum or the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, is a national history museum in Cairo, Egypt. An Egyptological museum, it houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world, including over 170,000 items.
2.3 km · museum in Cairo · Wikipedia - 03Tahrir Square
Tahrir Square, also known as Martyr Square, is a public town square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. The square has been the location and focus for political demonstrations.
2.2 km · public town square in Downtown Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia - 04Mosque of Ibn Tulun
The Mosque of Ibn Tulun is a mosque in Islamic Cairo, Egypt. Built between 876 and 879 CE by its namesake, Ahmad ibn Tulun, it is the oldest well-preserved mosque in Egypt.
3.2 km · mosque in Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia - 05al-Azhar Mosque
Al-Azhar Mosque, known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in the historic Islamic core of the city of Cairo, Egypt. Commissioned as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in 970 CE, it was the first mosque established in a city that eventually earned the nickname "the City of a Thousand Minarets".
4.6 km · mosque in Islamic Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia - 06Mosque of Amr ibn al-As
The Amr ibn al-As Mosque is a mosque, located in the Fustat neighbourhood of Old Cairo, Egypt. Named in honour of the Arab Muslim commander Amr ibn al-As, the mosque was built in c. 642 CE as the centre of the newly founded capital of Egypt, Fustat.
3 km · mosque in Egypt · Wikipedia - 07Muhammad Ali Mosque
The Muhammad Ali Mosque, also known as the Mosque of Muhammad Ali, is a mosque located in the Citadel of Cairo, Egypt. It was commissioned by Muhammad Ali Pasha and built between 1832 and 1857.
4.2 km · mosque in Egypt · Wikipedia - 08Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan
The Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan is a monumental mosque and madrasa located in Salah al-Din Square in the historic district of Cairo, Egypt. It was built between 1356 and 1363 CE during the Bahri Mamluk period, commissioned by Sultan an-Nasir Hasan.
3.9 km · mosque in Egypt · Wikipedia - 09Cairo Tower
The Cairo Tower is a free-standing concrete tower in Cairo, Egypt. At 187 m, it was the tallest structure in Egypt for 37 years until 1998, when it was surpassed by the Suez Canal overhead powerline crossing.
1.6 km · free-standing concrete tower in Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia - 10City of the Dead
The City of the Dead, or Cairo Necropolis, also referred to as the Qarāfa, is a series of vast Islamic-era necropolises and cemeteries in Cairo, Egypt. They extend to the north and to the south of the Cairo Citadel, below the Mokattam Hills and outside the historic city walls, covering an area roughly 4 miles long.
5.9 km · cemetery in Egypt · Wikipedia
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Getting to Al Qāhirah al Jadīdah
- Airports
- Cairo (CAI), 19 km · Sphinx (SPX), 32 km · Port Said (PSD), 170 km
- Stations
- Ramses Station, 4.5 km
- Port Said → Al Qāhirah al Jadīdah159 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · E£250–335
- Alexandria → Al Qāhirah al Jadīdah195 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · E£335–445
- El Arish → Al Qāhirah al Jadīdah255 km · quickest by road, 4h 45m · E£415–550
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- Get inWhen seeking transport, ask for "Haram" and shape your hands like a pyramid by making an upside down Victory sign with your index and middle finger: people, especially minibus drivers will know where you want to go.
- Get inAs of 2025, the metro is being extended towards the pyramids and the entire road is a construction project, so it can be somewhat of a maze to find the buses and minibuses that can take you toward the pyramids.
- Get inInstead just point yourself in the direction of the main east-west road and once you find the road walk west until you see minibuses or people waiting impatiently for one.
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Next door to Al Qāhirah al Jadīdah
Al Qāhirah al Jadīdah is 3 km from Giza, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Cairocapital city of Egypt2.2 km
- Gizacity in Egypt5.2 km
- Islamic Cairourban district4.6 km
- Cairo Genizacorpus of manuscript fragments from the Jewish community in Egypt3.4 km
- Rhoda Islandurban district1.6 km
- Bulaqurban district of Cairo, Egypt2.5 km