Nasr City

Nasr City, also called Victory City, forms two of the nine districts of the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt. It is administratively divided into Nasr City West, or One, and Nasr City East, or Two, and in 2021 a third district, Nasr City Third or Al-Amal, was divided from Nasr City East together with a police ward of the same name. It was established in the 1960s as an extension to the neighbouring settlement of Heliopolis, as part of the government's plan to modernise and expand Cairo after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. President Gamal Abdel Nasser was personally involved in the design process and chose the name Nasr, the Arabic word for victory. In the early stages it was envisioned as a new capital city, though it became a suburb of Cairo.