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Cairo Travel Guide

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.

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Military Museum

With more space devoted to ceremonial equipment and costumes than the brutal realities of war, pacifists should not be deterred by the name of this museum. Scale models and life-size simulations depict several of Egypt’s key battles, and visitors can actually step into the scene in which Egyptian soldiers cleverly blasted the “impregnable” sand Bar-Lev line with water cannons.



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