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Cairo

city in Illinois, United States
Place City In The United States Q575306

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
city in the United States, county seat[4]
Inception
1818[7]
Official website
www.ci.quincy.il.us[8]
Official name
Cairo[16]

Location

Country
United States[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 37.013°, -89.180°
Located in or next to body of water
Mississippi River[3]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Alexander County[1]

Population and size

Area
+23.528604, +23.52861[20][21]
Elevation above sea level
+96[19]
Population
1.7k (1.7k–3.6k, n=3)[9][10][11]

Codes

Local dialing code
618[6]
Postal code
62914[5]
More facts +6
Capital of
Alexander County[15]
Described by source
Nordisk familjebok, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The American Cyclopædia[12][13][14]
Different from
Cairo[18]
Number of households
+828[17]
Per capita income
+19661[23]
Water as percent of area
+23.2974[22]
🏷️ Also known as
en Cairo en Cairo, IL en Cairo, Illinois ar القاهرة es Cairo (Illinois) fa قاهره، ایلینوی he קיירו (אילינוי) ja カイロ ko 케어로 ru Кейро zh 开罗
🔖 Identifiers · 26
GND ID
1292591749
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
The City of Cairo Illinois downtown.jpg ↗
Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID
151048882
ArchINFORM location ID
23802
Atlas Obscura place ID
cairo-illinois
BabelNet ID
00014596n
Comic Vine ID
4020-61508
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/Illinois/Localities/C/Cairo/
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Cairo-Illinois
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
17-10383
FactGrid item ID
Take Command Console
Freebase ID
/m/0s2zq
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GNIS Feature ID
424699, 2393491
GeoNames ID
4234985
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
cairo-0
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0433778
Interlingual Index ID
i84352
MusicBrainz area ID
24d92827-17e7-49ff-bd20-5021e4c1cc26
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID
XX5546190
OpenStreetMap relation ID
126071
RKD thesaurus ID
47591
Topic's main category
Category:Cairo, Illinois
UN/LOCODE
USCIR
Who's on First ID
85938497
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
09105526-n
Yale LUX ID
place/e74dd502-59ff-49fa-9621-66d899d4745d
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
America/Chicago 2026-09-26 P/PPLA2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
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🔗 Connections
People born here 9
Caroline Smith, Rex Ingram, Christopher Jackson, Charles Hayes, Estelle Yancey, Tyrone Nesby, Hale Woodruff, Ted Joans +1 more
← Place of publication 3
Cairo Citizen, Cairo Evening Times, The Cairo Bulletin
Described by source 2
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Nordisk familjebok
Instance of 2
county seat, city in the United States
People who died here 2
Charles Ellet, Jr., John Beasley Greene
Capital of 1
Alexander County
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Cairo, Illinois
Contained subdivisions 1
Cairo Citizen
Country 1
United States
Different from 1
Cairo
FactGrid item ID 1
Take Command Console
Located in or next to body of water 1
Mississippi River
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Alexander County
Topic's main category 1
Category:Cairo, Illinois
← Capital 1
Alexander County
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Cairo, Illinois
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Cairo, Illinois
← FactGrid item ID 1
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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . 2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [22] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [23] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · Illegitimate Barrister · 2026-10-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Seal image → Seal of Cairo, Illinois.png
    "Created claim: Seal image: Seal of Cairo, Illinois.png"
  2. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GND ID → 1292591749
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #56499: Import GND IDs via DNB dump"
  3. 10w ago · Mahirtwofivesix · 2026-08-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → 37.013°, -89.180°
    Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID → 151048882
    Per capita income → 19,661 United States dollar
    Located in or next to body of water → Mississippi River
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "added/modified IDs mapped to WordNet 3.1"
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