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national capital, Egypt
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Also known as: Al-Manṣūriyyah, Al-Qāhirah
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Professor of Architecture, City Planning, Urban Design, and Urban History and Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Author of Cinematic Urbanism and...
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Cairo, city, capital of Egypt, and one of the largest cities in Africa. Cairo has stood for more than 1,000 years on the same site on the banks of the Nile, primarily on the eastern shore, some 500 miles (800 km) downstream from the Aswan High Dam. Located in the northeast of the country, Cairo is the gateway to the Nile delta, where the lower Nile separates into the Rosetta and Damietta branches. Metropolitan Cairo...

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