Cairo Governorate

Al- Qahira (Arabic محافظة القاهرة Muhafazat al - Qāhira, DMG Muhafazat al - Qāhira, including Cairo ) is a governorate in Egypt with 7,786,640 inhabitants.

It is bordered to the north by the provinces of al - Qalyubiyya and ash Sharqiyah, on the east by the provinces of al - Isma ʿ iliyya and as- Suwais and to the south and west by the province al - Giza. For Gouvernement the Cairene city center and Old Cairo is one on the east bank of the Nile; while the districts west of the Nile belong to al - Giza Governorate. The eastern part of the province extends into the Arabian Desert. The administrative center is Cairo.

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