1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Egypt
Compare this sourced profile of Cairo, Egypt before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Cairo—9,606,916, Africa/Cairo, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital city of Egypt.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Cairo is GeoNames ID 360630. Its recorded administrative path is Cairo → Egypt, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Cairo occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-02-23; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Cairo ranks 23 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Egypt entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 4. Its 9,606,916 population value is 14.54 times the 660,747 median for the country cohort and 10.64 times the 902,588 regional median. Cairo falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Egypt population cohort. Cairo's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Cairo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Shobra Elkhema at 6.948 km with 1,240,289 recorded people; Giza at 7.114 km with 4,367,343 recorded people; Al Khuşūş at 11.846 km with 488,904 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 4.898 km. Compared with Shobra Elkhema, Cairo's recorded population is 7.75 times as large. Against Cairo, Shobra Elkhema follows Qalyubia → Egypt in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Cairo's. Against Cairo, Giza follows Giza → Egypt in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Cairo's. Against Cairo, Al Khuşūş follows Qalyubia → Egypt in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Egypt cohort, uses the shared Africa/Cairo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Cairo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 100 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Cairo's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 360630, the coordinate pair 30.0626 / 31.2497, country rank 1 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 349076 at 6.948 km bind Cairo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Cairo's reference point is 30.0626° north and 31.2497° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Cairo is shared by 12 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Cairo's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Cairo's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Cairo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Cairo, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Cairo's closest other entries in this atlas are Shobra Elkhema (6.948 km), Giza (7.114 km), Al Khuşūş (11.846 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-02-23; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.