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Cairo

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Country: Egypt

Population:7,734,602

Time Zone:UTC+2

Cairo is part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world, and the Middle East. More than 9.8 million people call Egypt’s capital and largest city home, while the Greater Cairo metropolitan area has a population exceeding 22 million. Its story reaches back around 6,000 years, with the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis now within the city.