Cairo

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A map of Egypt. Cairo is the light green spot.

Cairo (Arabic:القاهرة, this is usually transliterated as Al-Qāhirah) is a city in Egypt. The city name can be translated as the one who won. The city is the capital and largest city in Egypt. It has a population of 7.7 million people who live there. About 15.2 million people live in its urban area. This makes it the biggest city of the Arab World. It also is the city with the biggest urban area, by number of people, in Africa. The next-biggest city is Lagos, Nigeria. People from Cairo are called 'Cairenes'.

The city is located on the Nile River. The great pyramids of Giza are located just outside of the city. Cairo is an important economic centre in not only Egypt, but also the Middle East and Africa.

Alexandria, Egypt used to be the largest city in Egypt. It had been for many years before Cairo, an old military base for Egypt, became a city.

The town center of Cairo, seen from the Cairo tower.

The Egyptian museum

[change] Famous Cairenes

Abu Sa'id al-Afif - Fifteenth Century Samaritian
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former Secretary-General of the United Nations
Naguib Mahfouz, novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
Mido, Professional soccer player with Middlesbrough F.C
Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency 2005 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Naguib Sawiris, 62nd richest person on earth in a 2007 list of billionaires, reaching US$10.0 billion with his company Orascom Telecom Holding
Farouk El Baz, a great contributor to NASA
Sir Magdi Yacoub, leading cardiologist, knight
Constantin Xenakis (1931) Greek artist
Voula Zouboulaki (1931) Greek actress