Greater Cairo
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The Greater Cairo (Template:Langx) is a metropolitan area centered around Cairo, Egypt. It comprises the entirety of the Cairo Governorate, the cities of ImbabaTemplate:Efn and Giza in the Giza Governorate, and the city Shubra El Kheima in Qalyubia Governorate.[1][2] Its definition can be expanded to include peri-urban areas and a number of new planned towns founded in the desert areas east and west of Cairo.[2] The Greater Cairo Region is also officially defined as an economic region consisting of the Cairo, Giza, and Qalyubia Governorates.[3][4] Within Greater Cairo lies the largest metropolitan area in Egypt,[5] the largest urban area in Africa, the Middle East, and the Arab world, and the 6th largest metropolitan area in the world.[6]
In its larger definition, the area includes all cities in the Cairo Governorate (Cairo, New Cairo, Badr, Shorouk, 15th of May, the New Administrative Capital, and Capital Gardens) as well as the main cities of the Giza Governorate (Giza, 6th of October, New 6 October, October Gardens, Sheikh Zayed, and New Sphinx) and Shubra El Kheima and Obour in the Qalyubia Governorate.[2] According to an estimate based on United Nations projections, the area had a population of 22,183,000 in 2023.[7] In 2012, when the area's population was estimated at 20.5 million, the population density within Cairo Governorate was estimated at 45,000 per square kilometer (11,700 per square mile).[8]
Economy
In 2021, Greater Cairo had GDP of around 3 trillion EGP or half of total Egypt GDP.[9]
| Governorate | Nominal GDP
(billion EGP)[9] |
Nominal GDP
(billion USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Cairo | 1,876 | 120 |
| Giza | 770 | 49 |
| Qalyubiyya | 339 | 22 |
| Greater Cairo | 2,985 | 191 |
Climate
The Greater Cairo Area and its surrounding region is classified as hot desert climate (BWh) in Köppen-Geiger classification, as all of Egypt. Cairo and its surrounding region have very similar day to day temperatures; however, the less populated parts at the east and the west do not experience the urban heat island effect, which makes them more prone to have soft hail.
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Urban issues
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60% of all informal houses in Egypt are located in the Greater Cairo area.[11]
Main cities
- Center and south
- West
- North
Satellite cities and towns
- North
- South
- West
- Sheikh Zayed City
- 6th of October
- Large real estate developments: Dreamland
- New 6 October
- October Gardens (Hadayek October)
- New Sphinx
- East
- El Shorouk
- Large real estate developments: New Heliopolis, Future City
- Badr
- New Cairo
- Large real estate developments: 5th Settlement, El Rehab, Madinaty
- New Administrative Capital
Sometimes included
- North
See also
Notes
References
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- ↑ R.L. Forstall, R.P. Greene, and J.B. Pick, "Which are the largest? Why published populations for major world urban areas vary so greatly" Template:Webarchive, City Futures Conference, (University of Illinois at Chicago, July 2004) – Table 5 (p.34)
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