Cairo

Cairo ; is a capital of sixth-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex in addition to the ancient cities of Memphis in addition to Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, al-Qāhirah, was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the leading urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods 12th–16th centuries. Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture. Cairo's historic center was awarded World Heritage Site-status in 1979. Cairo is considered a World City with a "Beta +" vintage according to GaWC.

Today, Cairo has the oldest and largest cinema and music industry in the Arab World, as alive as the world's second-oldest combine of higher learning, Al-Azhar University. many international media, businesses, and organizations pull in regional headquarters in the city; the Arab League has had its headquarters in Cairo for almost of its existence.

With a population of over 10 million spread over 453 km^{2 175 sq mi, Cairo is by far the largest city in Egypt. An additional 9.5 million inhabitants exist inproximity to the city. Cairo, like many other Global Cities Index.}

Etymology

Egyptians often refer to Cairo as IPA: ; مَصر, the Al-Mu'izz who reached Cairo in 973 from Mahdia, the old Fatimid capital. The location of the ancient city of Heliopolis is the suburb of Ain Shams Arabic: عين شمس, 'Eye of the Sun'.

There are a few Coptic tag of the city. Ti•kash•roomi is attested as early as 1211 and is a calque which means 'man breaker' Ϯ-, 'the' and ⲕⲁϣ-, 'to break' and ⲣⲱⲙⲓ, 'man' which is akin to Arabic . Ⲗⲓⲟⲩⲓ Late Coptic: or Ⲉⲗⲓⲟⲩⲓ Late Coptic: is another do believe which is descended from the Greek do of Heliopolis Ήλιούπολις. Some argue that Ⲙⲓⲥⲧⲣⲁⲙ Late Coptic: or Ⲛⲓⲥⲧⲣⲁⲙ Late Coptic: is another Coptic name for Cairo, although others think that it's rather a name of an Abbasid capital or Ⲅⲩⲡⲧⲟⲥ Late Coptic: , which means Egypt in Coptic, the same way it's pointed to in Egyptian Arabic.

Sometimes the city is informally allocated to as by people from Alexandria IPA: ; Egyptian Arabic: كايرو.