Cairo Neighborhoods
List of areas to explore
Dokki is a largely residential area to the west of the River Nile, opposite the southern tip of Gezira Island and...
Downtown Cairo (also known as wust al-balad – the "centre of town") was built in the mid 19th Century as part...
Garden City is a small, green and affluent neighbourhood of Cairo that stretches south for a few km from Midan...
Giza is complicated! Technically, the whole of the city west of the Nile is actually Giza, rather than Cairo, and...
Heliopolis is a sprawling residential and commercial area in the north-east of Cairo. Known locally as Masr al-Gadida...
Islamic Cairo is the city at its most exotic, chaotic and exhilarating; home to many of its most impressive monuments...
Old Cairo, known in Egyptian as Masr al-Qadima, is technically the area of Cairo south of Sayyida Zeinab and Garden...
The River Nile flows from south to north through Cairo, splitting the city in two. Almost slap bang in the middle...
Imbaba is a poor neighbourhood on the west bank of Cairo. It's just north of Mohandiseen, bounded to the south...
Agouza is a small, thin neighbourhood in Cairo that runs along the west bank of the Nile between the 6th October...
Mohandiseen is a relatively large neighbourhood on the west bank of Cairo, that is bounded by Sudan street to the...
Maadi is an expat and embassy enclave about 12 km south of Downtown, on the east bank of the Nile. It's an extremely...
6th October City is another new Cairo satellite city, similar to New Cairo. 6th October city is around 30 km south-west...
New Cairo, known in Egyptian as al-Qahira al-Gadida, is a new city built in the desert to the east of Maadi, and...
Known in Egyptian as Medinat Nasr, Nasr City is a satellite town that grew up in the east of Cairo during the 60's...
