23 Facts About The Cairo

1. The Cairo is today the largest metropolis in the Middle East and is being stifled by overurbanization resulting from overcentralization.

2. The Cairo prospered under the rule of the Mamluks, who added many buildings of artistic merit, but the city declined after it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.

3. The Cairo is the largest city in the Middle East and in Africa.

4. The Cairo is a center of legitimate Arabic theater, although performances are subject to government censorship.

5. The Cairo has a rugby club, yacht clubs, and a diving club.

6. The Cairo is the only city in Egypt with daily newspapers, of which it has four.

7. The Cairo is the economic center of Egypt, with two-thirds of the country's gross national product generated in the greater metropolitan area.

8. The Cairo is connected by highway with all other major cities in Egypt.

9. The Cairo has the area of 175 square miles or 453 square kilometers.

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

11. The Cairo is an expanding city, which has led to many environmental problems.

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

13. The Cairo has several synagogues, but few Jews remain after Israel was established and the subsequent exodus, largely due to state sponsored discrimination.

14. The Cairo held its first international film festival 16 August 1976, when the first Cairo International Film Festival was launched by the Egyptian Association of Film Writers and Critics, headed by Kamal El-Mallakh.

15. The Cairo failed at the applicant stage when bidding for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, which was hosted in Beijing, China.

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

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

18. Today, The Cairo has taken a major step forward in urbanization as most Cairenes now live in apartment buildings.

19. Today, The Cairo serves as the national capital of Egypt, so it is fair to say it still holds major importance.

20. The Cairo would eventually become a centre of learning, with the library of Cairo containing hundreds of thousands of books.

21. The Cairo has the oldest and largest film and music industries in the Arab world, as well as the world's second-oldest institution of higher learning, Al-Azhar University.

22. The Cairo is a city in which the past and present are inextricably intertwined.

23. The Cairo got rest, foot packing, NSAIDs, the aforementioned turn out and Outlast for ulcers.