Fuelled by record-breaking investments, ambitious national strategies, and a population craving modern urban living, Cairo's ...

The New Administrative Capital (NAC) in Egypt, as photographed from space in 2024. MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES. Among the city's cultural and architectural highlights are a 70-story tower — already the ...

Egypt is preparing to spend billions doubling the size of a lavish new capital it is building in the desert 45 km (28 miles) east of Cairo, where the first residents are trickling in, the head of ...

Egypt is busy building a new – as yet unnamed – capital, designed to be the country's new administrative hub and home to more than 6.5 million residents. With urbanization well above the ...

In Egypt, a huge “New Administrative Capital” is being built, approximately 45km (28 miles) to the east of Cairo, on a swath of desert equal to the size of Singapore.

“Egypt's administrative capital is not different from Ankara, New Delhi or Brasilia,” said Zeyad Elkelani, a political science professor at Cairo University.

Egypt is building a new city, known as the "New Administrative Capital," 30 miles east of Cairo. Construction on the 270-square-mile area began in 2016, and once complete it could hold as many as ...

Egypt Is Building A Brand-New Capital City – And You Can See It Via Satellite. Story by Holly Large • 2w. C airo is perhaps one of the world’s most famous capital cities, with a rich history ...

Item 1 of 6 Residential buildings are seen in the New Administrative Capital (NAC) east of Cairo, Egypt March 8, 2021. Picture taken March 8, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany ...

A controversial new Egyptian capital city is being built 30 miles east of Cairo at the expense of $45bn. "Sprawled" across a patch of desert four times the size of Washington, DC, the "showy new ...