Qalyub
Qalyub is a city containing a rural markaz, and an urban one.
Qalyub is a city containing a rural markaz, and an urban one. It is located in the Qalyubia Governorate of Egypt, in the northern part of the Cairo metropolitan area, at the start of the Nile Delta. In 1986, it had a population of 84,413 inhabitants, which grew to 106,804 residents by 2006, a more than average growth.
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Worth seeing in and around Qalyub
One place 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.
- 01Delta Barrage
The Delta Barrage is a barrage-type dam constructed intermittently from 1833 to 1862. Its purpose was to improve irrigation and navigation along the main Rosetta and Damietta branches of the Nile downstream of the point where they divide north of Cairo, Egypt.
8.7 km · dam in Egypt that was constructed intermittently beginning in 1833 to its initial completion in 1862 · Wikipedia
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Getting to Qalyub
- Airports
- Cairo (CAI), 21 km · Sphinx (SPX), 31 km · Port Said (PSD), 156 km
- Port Said → Qalyub160 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · E£265–355
- Alexandria → Qalyub168 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · E£310–410
- El Arish → Qalyub269 km · quickest by road, 4h 55m · E£430–570
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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 Qalyub
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 Qalyub. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Qalyub
Qalyub is 9 km from Shubrā al Khaymah, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Shobra ElkhemaEgyptian city north of Cairo8.7 km
- Qanatir el Qahiriyahuman settlement in Egypt6.6 km
- Qahahuman settlement in Egypt9.3 km
- El Warraqmunicipal district of Giza, Egypt9.1 km
- Tannashan Egyptian village8.4 km