Coordinates: 30

° 03 N 31 ° 14 E / 30.05, 31.233 Cai ro (Arabic: القاهرة; [al-Qahirah]) - the capital and large st city of Egypt (214 km ², population 6 787 000 inhabitants, to wnscape 17.285 million people - the biggest city of Africa). Ther e are no accurate statistics on the population of Cairo. Cause a continuous journey residents. Approximately 2 million people live in so. City of the dead . The official, the Arabic name of the city it al-Qahira while in the local dialect Masr .