Cairo, Egypt

Country: Egypt
Topic: Capital:
Mayor Abdul Azim Wazir
It was founded in 969.
Area: 214 km/2
This is 68 m above sea level.
Population: 8,026,454 people (2009)
Time zone: UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer.
Telephone code: +20 02:
Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة‎, al-Kahira — "victorious") is the capital of the Republic of Egypt and the largest settlement in Africa. Egyptians often call him Masr.
Cairo is the largest city in Africa and the Arab world. The population of the city itself is more than 7 million people. is

It is located on the banks of the Nile and on the islands, a little south of the delta. Cairo is one of the largest industrial centers of Egypt, accounting for 1/4 of production.

The industry is multi-sectoral, but the leaders are machine-building, textile, chemical and food industry.

With a number of surrounding cities (Giza, Shubra-el-Geima, Helwan) a huge urban agglomeration of Greater Cairo with a population of 16 million people was created.

A city settlement has existed in Cairo since time immemorial. Babylon (not Babylon of Mesopotamia), which was then called Fustat.
The historical part of modern Cairo is called Old Cairo, it is located on the site of ancient buildings (Fustat). Ancient Roman buildings and ancient Coptic churches have been preserved on the territory of the old city, the Coptic Museum, Babylon Castle, synagogue and ancient mosques are located. There is also a place where the Holy Family hid on the territory of Old Cairo.
Part of the old city, populated by Christian-Coptics, is called Coptic Cairo.
Tourists visiting Egypt often visit Old Cairo.
In the second half of the 15th century, two important buildings were built in Cairo. the port of Bulak and the quarter of al-Azbakey in the north-western part of the city. The layout of the city has not changed for the last 300 years, as evidenced by the map compiled by the French research group in 1798. After the conquest of Cyprus by Zacher Baybars in 1428, Bulak became the main port of Cairo. By the end of the 15th century, Cairo took on the role of the important trading port of Old Cairo.