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New Cairo

This article is about the suburb of Cairo planned and built in the 2000s. For the planned new capital of Egypt, see New Administrative Capital.

New Cairo
القاهرة الجديدة
City
New Cairo is located in Egypt
New Cairo
New Cairo
Location in Egypt
Coordinates: 30°02′N 31°28′E / 30.03°N 31.47°E / 30.03; 31.47
CountryEgypt
Metropolitan areaGreater Cairo
GovernorateCairo
Government
 • Head of the New Cairo City AuthorityEngineer Amin Ghoneim
Area
 • Total343 km2 (132 sq mi)
Elevation
271 m (889 ft)
Population
 (January 2023 estimate)[1]
 • Total318,092
 • Density930/km2 (2,400/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+3 (EST)
Area code(+20) 2

New Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة الجديدة el-Qāhera el-Gedīda) is a satellite city within the metropolitan area of Cairo, Egypt. Administratively, it is part of the Eastern Area of Cairo,[2] administered by the New Urban Communities Authority.[3] The city was established in 2000 by merging three 'new' towns (The First, Third and Fifth Settlements, translit. Al-Tagammu' al-awwal, al-thalith, al-khames, Arabic:التجمع الأول والثالث والخامس),[4] originally on an area of about 67,000 acres which had grown to 85,000 acres by 2016.[3]

According to the 2017 census, New Cairo's three qisms (Qahira al-Gadida Awwal, Thani, Thalith) had a combined population of 297,387 residents (also see population section below).[5][6] This is in stark contrast to the New Urban Communities Authority's (NUCA) undated population estimate of 1.5 million inhabitants and a target population of 4 million inhabitants.[7] However, the same source contradicts this claim where it states 70,000 homes as built,[7] leading to an impossibly high average of 21 people per home. The lower population figure translates into a more realistic 4 people per home.

New Cairo is built in the Eastern Desert to the east of the Cairo Ring Road and the modern 1950s extension of Nasr City, on a plateau that ranges in elevation between 250 and 307 metres (820 and 1,007 ft) above sea level.[8]

The city could eventually host a population of 5 million.[9] When compared to 6th of October, also built with the hopes of alleviating the strain on Cairo, more homes are being rented out in New Cairo than in 6 October.[10]

  1. ^ "Egypt's population by qism and markaz on 1 January, 2023" (PDF). Central Organisation for Public Mobilisation and Statistics. 1 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Eastern Area". www.cairo.gov.eg. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  3. ^ a b "New Cairo". New Urban Communities Authority. Archived from the original on 12 March 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Presidential Decree 191/2000" (PDF). The Official Gazette. 2000.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Note01 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ a b "Home - New Cairo". www.newcities.gov.eg. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  8. ^ "New Cairo City, Cairo Governorate, Egypt Lat Long Coordinates Info". Lat Long. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  9. ^ Jack Schenker, 11 June 2011. "Desert storm". Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2015.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Al-Aees, Shaimaa (25 July 2016). "Apartments, villas rented out at faster rate in New Cairo than 6th of October City: JLL". Daily News Egypt. Archived from the original on 2 October 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2016.

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