CAIRO
Egypt
One of 20 GPFL Host Cities
KEY STADIUMS
Cairo International Stadium 75,000
30 June Stadium 30,000
Borg El Arab Stadium (Alexandria) 86,000
POPULATION
Metro 21,900,000 (2022)
Urban 10,100,166 (2022)
Main Attractions
Nile River, Giza pyramid complex, Grand Egyptian Museum, Tahrir Square, Al-Azhar Mosque, Cairo Tower
Other Sports Venues
Cairo Stadium Indoor Halls Complex Basketball, Handball, Al Salam Stadium Football
Most Visited City Ranking
65
World's Best City Ranking
N/A
Why did we choose Cairo?
Cairo is huge, historic and full-on football mad. The city, and the country of Egypt as a whole, is also one of the most ancient on the planet. Geographically, the city is well positioned at the top of Africa and the heart of the Arab world to take on the GPFL challenge.
CAIRO
Cairo is the capital of Egypt and the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East. The greater metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population.
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. The Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area.
Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, al-Qāhirah, was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries).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. The historic centre was awarded World Heritage Site-status in 1979.