The New Capital

The New Capital, also called the New Administrative Capital, is a new urban community and the de facto capital of Egypt, east of New Cairo in Cairo Governorate. As of May 2023, 14 ministries and government entities had been relocated there, and on 2 April 2024 President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took the constitutional oath for a third consecutive term in office there, officially inaugurating the city as the seat of the Egyptian government. Plans for the new capital were announced by the then housing minister Mostafa Madbouly at the Egypt Economic Development Conference on 13 March 2015, as one of the projects for economic development and part of the larger initiative Egypt Vision 2030. It is being built in stages, initially over 170,000 feddans (714 square kilometres), which later grew to 223,383 feddans (907 square kilometres).