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Cairo, Egypt’s capital, is part of the largest metropolitan area in Africa and the Arab world. It is located along the Nile River, near the Nile Delta — an advantageous position for agriculture and global trade since antiquity. Cairo blends millennia of history with modern urban design, particularly east of the Nile where master-planned communities like New Cairo and 10th of Ramadan have been constructed in recent years to ease congestion in the city center.