Greater Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة الكبرى al-qāhira al-kubrā ) is the largest metropolitan area in Egypt and the third largest urban area in the Islamic World after Jakarta and Greater Istanbul. It is the largest urban area in Africa. It is the world's 16th largest metropolitan area, consisting of Cairo governorate, Giza city, Shubra el-Kheima and 6 October city, with a total population of 17,816,000; area: 1,709 km2; density: 10,400/km2.
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“It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety be termed the City of Magnificent Intentions.... Spacious avenues, that begin in nothing, and lead nowhere; streets, mile-long, that only want houses, roads, and inhabitants; public buildings that need but a public to be complete; and ornaments of great thoroughfares, which only lack great thoroughfares to ornament—are its leading features.”
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