Shubra El Kheima
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About Shubra El Kheima
Shubra El Kheima, is the fourth-largest city in Egypt after Cairo, Giza and Alexandria. It is located in the Qalyubia Governorate along the northern edge of the Cairo Governorate. It forms part of the Greater Cairo metropolitan area.
Shubra El Kheima was a village on the Nile where Mohamed Ali built a palace in its vicinity in 1908 as a rural retreat.
During the 20th century, the area became primarily inhabited by workers and their families, as it became a major industrial hub.
Today, along with the cities of Cairo and Giza, Shubra al-Kheima makes up the contiguous metropolitan area of Greater Cairo. In the 2017 census it was home to 1,161,514 people, divided between two districts comprising five shiakhas (smallest non-administrative census blocks):
District 1: (hayy awwal): 481,936 people.
Shubra El Kheima station serves the northern terminus of Line 2 of the Cairo Metro. Near the metro station, there is also a station within the Egyptian National Railways system.
Shubra El Kheima is also served by taxis, CTA...
Overview adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA. Photography via Wikimedia Commons.