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Zamalek

urban district in Cairo, Egypt
AdministrativeArea shiyakha Q145356

Facts

6 properties

Identity

Instance of
shiyakha

Location

Country
Egypt[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 30.062°, 31.221°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Gharb[2]

Population and size

Elevation above sea level
+9[5]
Population
+16534[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Zamalek ar الزمالك fa زمالک he זמאלק ja ザマーレク ja ザマーレク地区 pl Az-Zamalik ru Замалек
🔖 Identifiers · 11
VIAF cluster ID
140995528
Library of Congress authority ID
no88006051
GND ID
7586128-8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Zamalek Island-Cairo.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/03qpf39
GNS Unique Feature ID
-291828
GeoNames ID
359499
MusicBrainz area ID
ef7fb7b7-565e-4dec-b001-3c29807468c1
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007537962105171
Quora topic ID
Zamalek
Yale LUX ID
place/ed6756fa-0313-49e3-adec-3244fe1b0d1b
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 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.

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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Cairo 2026-09-26 P/PPLX · EG GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
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
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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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.
🔗 Connections
People who died here 7
Hikmat Abu Zayd, Samiha Ayub, Fouad Elmohandes, Ahmad Hamrush, Awatef Abdel Karim, Tharwat Abaza, Zeinab Abdel Hamid
People born here 5
Ezzat Abu'of, Abdelsalam Hamdy, Madiha Salem, Yosra El Lozy, Clea Badaro
← Headquarters location 4
Gezira Sporting Club, Gezira, Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, Saint Mark Foundation for Coptic Studies
Contained subdivisions 2
Cairo Tower, Prince Amr Ibrahim Palace
Country 1
Egypt
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Gharb
Located in this place 1
Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo
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Summary

Zamalek is a shiyakha[1].

Related Entities

Egypt Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo Saint Mark Foundation for Coptic Studies

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . webcitation.org. webcitation.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . geonames.org. geonames.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 28d ago · ~2026-54566-57 · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Zamalek Island-Cairo.jpg
    Population → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 30.061944444444, 'lon': 31.220555555556}
    Sitelink count → 20
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Image: Zamalek Island-Cairo.jpg"
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