Cairo

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capital city city megacity

Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt, a historic metropolis on the Nile renowned for its rich Islamic heritage and proximity to the ancient pyramids.

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Observed surface forms (6)

Surface form	Occurrences
Cairo, Egypt	16
Cairo Governorate	2
Cairo (national capital of Egypt)	1
Cairo (of Egypt)	1
Cairo’s historic center	1
Heliopolis	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	capital city ⓘ city ⓘ megacity ⓘ
capitalOf	Egypt ⓘ
climate	hot desert climate ⓘ
continent	Africa ⓘ
country	Egypt ⓘ
currencyUsed	Egyptian pound ⓘ
demographicsGroupMajority	Egyptians ⓘ
foundedBy	Fatimid Caliphate ⓘ
foundingCentury	10th century ⓘ
foundingYearApproximate	969 ⓘ
hasInternationalAirport	Cairo International Airport ⓘ
hasLandmark	Al-Azhar Mosque ⓘ Al-Azhar University ⓘ Cairo Citadel ⓘ Cairo Tower ⓘ Egyptian Museum ⓘ Khan el-Khalili ⓘ Cairo Citadel ⓘ surface form: Mosque of Muhammad Ali Tahrir Square ⓘ
historicalRegion	Lower Egypt ⓘ
isCulturalCenterOf	Arab world ⓘ
isEconomicCenterOf	Egypt ⓘ
isPoliticalCenterOf	Egypt ⓘ
knownFor	Islamic architecture ⓘ historic mosques ⓘ medieval Islamic city ⓘ
kppenClimateClassification	BWh ⓘ
largestCityOf	Egypt ⓘ
locatedIn	Africa ⓘ Arab world ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ surface form: Northern Africa
locatedOnRiver	Nile ⓘ
nearbyAncientSite	Giza ⓘ surface form: Giza pyramid complex Great Sphinx of Giza ⓘ
nickname	City of a Thousand Minarets ⓘ
officialLanguage	Arabic ⓘ
partOf	Cairo self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Cairo Governorate
populationRankInAfrica	one of the largest cities in Africa ⓘ
primarySpokenLanguage	Egyptian Arabic ⓘ
religionMajority	Islam ⓘ
riverIsland	Gezira Island ⓘ Roda Island ⓘ
timeZone	Eastern European Time ⓘ
utcOffset	+2 ⓘ
utcOffsetDST	+3 ⓘ
writingSystemForOfficialLanguage	Arabic script ⓘ

Referenced by (341)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ministry of Interior of Egypt → headquartersLocation → Cairo ⓘ

Ministry of Investment of Egypt → headquartersLocation → Cairo ⓘ

Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Egypt → headquartersLocation → Cairo ⓘ

Ministry of Transport of Egypt → headquartersLocation → Cairo ⓘ

National Democratic Party (Egypt) → headquartersLocation → Cairo ⓘ

National Organization for Military Production → headquartersLocation → Cairo ⓘ

Public Security Sector → headquartersLocation → Cairo ⓘ

Royal Egyptian Army → headquartersLocation → Cairo ⓘ

Secretary-General of the Arab League → headquartersLocation → Cairo ⓘ

Supreme Judicial Council of Egypt → headquartersLocation → Cairo ⓘ

WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean → headquartersLocation → Cairo ⓘ

Cairo Conference → hostCity → Cairo ⓘ

Arabic calligraphy → importantCenter → Cairo ⓘ

Ottoman Empire → importantCity → Cairo ⓘ

Middle East shuttle diplomacy → involvedTravelBetween → Cairo ⓘ

Cairo Tower → isMajorLandmarkOf → Cairo ⓘ

Economy of Egypt → keyCity → Cairo ⓘ

Egypt → largestCity → Cairo ⓘ

central Egypt → largestCityInRegion → Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Central Egypt

Manf → laterSupplantedBy → Cairo ⓘ

Tanta → locatedBetween → Cairo ⓘ

Egyptian new administrative capital project → locatedEastOf → Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Egyptian New Administrative Capital

Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Ain Shams University → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Al-Azhar Mosque → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Al-Azhar University → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Cairo Citadel → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Cairo Tower → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Cairo University Children’s Hospital → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Command and Staff College (Egypt) → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Council of Arab Ministers of Information → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Department of Anesthesiology → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Department of Anesthesiology, Cairo University

Department of Community Medicine → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

Department of General Surgery → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

Department of Internal Medicine → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Department of Internal Medicine, Cairo University

Department of Microbiology → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

Department of Neurology → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

Department of Parasitology → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

Department of Pathology → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Department of Pathology, Cairo University

Department of Pediatrics → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Department of Pediatrics, Cairo University Faculty of Medicine

Department of Pharmacology → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

EMRO → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Egyptian Military Academy → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Egyptian Museum → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

El Sayeda Nafisa Cemetery, Cairo → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Faculty of Medicine → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

subject surface form: Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

Gezira Island → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Heliopolis Presidential Palace → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ

Institute of Educational Studies → locatedIn → Cairo ⓘ