Greater Cairo

Greater Cairo is the metropolitan area of three governorates - Cairo, Giza and Qalyubia.

It also emcompasses Helwan and 6 October. The total population of the metropolitan area according to some estimates is approxiately 30 million people.
 
Cairo stands on both banks of the River Nile in northern Egypt, immediately south of where the river flows out of the valley.  It is surrounded by desert and is divided into the sections, forming the Nile Delta.

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