Cairo means "The Vanquisher" or "The Triumphant". It is located on the banks and islands of the Nile River in the north of Egypt, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and breaks into two branches into the low-lying Nile Delta region.
About Cairo
Cairo covers an area of 82.6 sq. miles (214 square Km) and is estimated to have a population of 8 million people being the capital city of Egypt, the largest city in Egypt and Africa's most populous city. Cairo is the sixteenth most populous metropolitan area in the world.