El Shorouk, also spelled Elshorouk, is a satellite city in the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt, considered an extension of Heliopolis. It is a third generation new city established by presidential decree 325 of 1995, administered by the New Urban Communities Authority, and is mostly residential with a limited number of malls and projects compared with nearby Nasr City and New Cairo.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. El Shorouk (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
+1995-00-00T00:00:00Z
P1082 (population)
population 340,000
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 30.1448, longitude 31.6296
P2046 (area)
area 214.45 sq km
View the Source2. GeoNames: El Shorouk - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 7799998
30.13806 31.61556 P PPL EG 11 91899 191 Africa/Cairo
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 191 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 30.25, 31.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 30.25, 31.75
30.25 31.75 BWh
El Shorouk (Wikipedia)
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