43 Facts About Cairo Egypt

Cairo Egypt has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture.

Cairo Egypt is considered a World City with a "Beta +" classification according to GaWC.

Today, Cairo Egypt has the oldest and largest cinema and music industry in the Arab World, as well as the world's second-oldest institution of higher learning, Al-Azhar University.

The Cairo Egypt Metro, opened in 1987, is the oldest metro system in Africa, and ranks amongst the fifteen busiest in the world, with over 1 billion annual passenger rides.

The economy of Cairo Egypt was ranked first in the Middle East in 2005, and 43rd globally on Foreign Policy 2010 Global Cities Index.

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Some argue that it was a name of an Egyptian settlement upon which Cairo was built, but it's rather doubtful as this name is not attested in any Hieroglyphic or Demotic source, although some researchers, like Paul Casanova, view it as a legitimate theory.

However, the origins of modern Cairo Egypt are generally traced back to a series of settlements in the first millennium AD.

Cairo Egypt was accompanied by his stepson, Ahmad ibn Tulun, who became effective governor of Egypt.

Cairo Egypt remained a relatively exclusive royal city for most of this era, but during the tenure of Badr al-Gamali as vizier the restrictions were loosened for the first time and richer families from Fustat were allowed to move into the city.

Meanwhile, Cairo Egypt flourished as a centre of Islamic scholarship and a crossroads on the spice trade route among the civilisations in Afro-Eurasia.

Under the reign of the Mamluk sultan al-Nasir Muhammad, Cairo Egypt reached its apogee in terms of population and wealth.

Cairo Egypt cited reports of thousands of deaths per day in Cairo.

Cairo Egypt built or restored numerous monuments in Cairo, in addition to commissioning projects beyond Egypt.

However, during the 16th and 17th centuries, Cairo Egypt remained an important economic and cultural centre.

Under the Ottomans, Cairo Egypt expanded south and west from its nucleus around the Citadel.

Cairo Egypt itself was besieged by a British and Ottoman force culminating with the French surrender on 22 June 1801.

The goal of the government of the newly formed Kingdom of Cairo Egypt was not to delegitimize the other variant Quranic texts, but to eliminate errors found in Qur'anic texts used in state schools.

The British departed Cairo following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, but the city's rapid growth showed no signs of abating.

Concurrently, Cairo Egypt established itself as a political and economic hub for North Africa and the Arab world, with many multinational businesses and organisations, including the Arab League, operating out of the city.

Until the mid-19th century, when the river was tamed by dams, levees, and other controls, the Nile in the vicinity of Cairo Egypt was highly susceptible to changes in course and surface level.

The land on which Cairo Egypt was established in 969 was located underwater just over three hundred years earlier, when Fustat was first built.

The areas, which are home to most of Cairo Egypt's embassies, are surrounded on the north, east, and south by the older parts of the city.

Northern and extreme eastern parts of Cairo Egypt, which include satellite towns, are among the most recent additions to the city, as they developed in the late-20th and early-21st centuries to accommodate the city's rapid growth.

In Cairo Egypt, and along the Nile River Valley, the climate is a hot desert climate .

Greater Cairo has long been the hub of education and educational services for Egypt and the region.

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Today, Greater Cairo is the centre for many government offices governing the Egyptian educational system, has the largest number of educational schools, and higher education institutes among other cities and governorates of Egypt.

Cairo Egypt has an extensive road network, rail system, subway system and maritime services.

Football is the most popular sport in Egypt, and Cairo has a number of sporting teams that compete in national and regional leagues most notably, Al Ahly, Zamalek SC who are the CAF first and second African clubs of the 20th century.

Cairo Egypt failed at the applicant stage when bidding for the 2008 Summer Olympics, which was hosted in Beijing, China.

Cairo Egypt is internationally known for the excellence of its squash players who excel in both professional and junior divisions.

Cairo Egypt has seven players in the top ten of the PSA men's world rankings, and three in the women's top ten.

In 1998, the Festival took place under the presidency of one of Cairo Egypt's leading actors, Hussein Fahmy, who was appointed by the Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, after the death of Saad El-Din Wahba.

Cairo Egypt's economy has traditionally been based on governmental institutions and services, with the modern productive sector expanding in the 20th century to include developments in textiles and food processing - specifically the production of sugar cane.

Cairo Egypt Tower is a free-standing tower with a revolving restaurant at the top.

The area includes the Coptic Cairo Egypt, which holds a high concentration of old Christian churches such as the Hanging Church, the Greek Orthodox Church of St George, and other Christian or Coptic buildings, most of which are located over the site of the ancient Roman fortress.

Cairo Egypt holds one of the greatest concentrations of historical monuments of Islamic architecture in the world.

Settlement that was formally named Cairo Egypt was founded to the northeast of Fustat in 959 AD by the victorious Fatimid army.

The situation is so severe that in 2017, Cairo Egypt was named by one poll as the most dangerous megacity for women in the world.

Air pollution in Cairo Egypt is a matter of serious concern.

Air quality measurements in Cairo Egypt have been recording dangerous levels of lead, carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, and suspended particulate matter concentrations due to decades of unregulated vehicle emissions, urban industrial operations, and chaff and trash burning.

Cairo Egypt has a very poor dispersion factor because of its lack of rain and its layout of tall buildings and narrow streets, which create a bowl effect.

Cairo Egypt has many unregistered lead and copper smelters which heavily pollute the city.

The Cairo Egypt Cleaning and Beautification Agency was founded to collect and recycle the waste; they work with the Zabbaleen community that has been collecting and recycling Cairo Egypt's waste since the turn of the 20th century and live in an area known locally as Manshiyat naser.