El Marg
El Marg is a district in the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt, bordering Qalyubia Governorate near Shubra El Kheima.
El Marg is a district in the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt, bordering Qalyubia Governorate near Shubra El Kheima. It was separated from the El Salam district on 1 April 1994. Its residential area is densely populated. It covers 16.94 square kilometers, with 251,589 people according to a 1996 census, increasing to 507,035 in 2006. In 2017 El-Marg had 798,646 residents making it the most populous district in Cairo.
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Getting to El Marg
- Airports
- Cairo (CAI), 8 km · Sphinx (SPX), 42 km · Port Said (PSD), 152 km
- Stations
- New El-Marg, 700 m
- Al Jiza → El Marg543 km · quickest by air, 8h 14m · $460–690
- Port Said → El Marg153 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · E£245–325
- Alexandria → El Marg179 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · E£315–420
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for El Marg
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for El Marg. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAs of 2025 it has only seasonal charter services operated by Smartwings.
- Get inA cheaper option to get to Sharm by bus is to take a bus, a train, or a minibus to Suez and from the main bus station there, take the 11AM or the 1:20PM bus to Sharm.
- Get aroundBecause of problems with sexual harassment women travellers are advised only to take the small minibuses and buses which prohibit standing.
- Get aroundOn minibuses, the fare starts at LE5 and goes up to LE15 depending on the length of the route.
- Get aroundThere are actually two stations - the main bus station for the city buses, and the minibus station behind it.
From Wikivoyage: Cairo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to El Marg
El Marg is 2 km from Al Khuşūş, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Khususcity in Qalyubiyya, Egypt2 km
- Ezbet El Nakhldistrict in the northern region of Greater Cairo2.1 km
- Khanka, Egyptcity in Qalyubiyya, Egypt2 km