New Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة الجديدةel-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]
^"Egypt's population by qism and markaz on 1 January, 2023" (PDF). Central Organisation for Public Mobilisation and Statistics. 1 January 2023.
^"Eastern Area". www.cairo.gov.eg. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
^ ab"New Cairo". New Urban Communities Authority. Archived from the original on 12 March 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
^"Presidential Decree 191/2000" (PDF). The Official Gazette. 2000.
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^ ab"Home - New Cairo". www.newcities.gov.eg. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
^"New Cairo City, Cairo Governorate, Egypt Lat Long Coordinates Info". Lat Long. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
^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)
^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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