Cairo is the capital city of Egypt. It may also refer to: Nickname: Al Qahirah (The Triumphant City) Cairos location in Egypt Coordinates: Governor Dr. Abdul Azim Wazir Area    - City 210 km²  - Metro 1,492 km² Population (2005)  - City 7,438,376  - Density 35,420/km²  - Urban 10,834,495  - Metro 15,200,000 Time zone EET (UTC+2)  - Summer (DST...

Towns or cities in the United States

• Cairo, Georgia
• Cairo, Illinois
• Cairo Township, Minnesota
• Cairo, Missouri
• Cairo, Nebraska
• Cairo (town), New York
• Cairo, Ohio
• Cairo, West Virginia

Cairo is a city in Grady County, Georgia, United States. ... Cairo is a city in Alexander County, Illinois in the United States. ... Cairo Township is a township located in Renville County, Minnesota. ... Cairo is a village located in Randolph County, Missouri. ... Cairo is a village located in Hall County, Nebraska. ... Cairo is a town located in Greene County, New York. ... Cairo is a village located in Allen County, Ohio at the intersection of Ohio Route 65 and the Lincoln Highway. ... Cairo is a town located in Ritchie County, West Virginia. ...

People

• Francesco Cairo, a 17th century Italian painter
• Miguel Cairo, a Major League Baseball player
• Cairo Foster, an Asian-American skateboarder

Francisco Cairo (1607 - 1665) was an Italian painter active in Baroque Lombardy and Piedmont. ... Miguel Jesús Cairo [KI-roh] (born May 4, 1974 in Anzoátegui State, Venezuela) is a Major League Baseball second baseman for the New York Yankees. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Music

• Cairo (band), a progressive rock band
• Cairo, Illinois (song), a song from the 1974 musical film Huckleberry Finn
• L'oca del Cairo, an opera buffa

Cairo is progressive rock band from San Francisco. ... Cairo, Illinois is a song from the 1974 musical film, Huckleberry Finn based on the book by Mark Twain. ... Loca del Cairo is an opera buffa (or dramma giocoso per musica), K. 422, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1783. ...

Literature

• Cairo Jim, a popular series of children's books by Australian author Geoffrey McSkimming
• Cairo Trilogy, a trilogy of novels written by Naguib Mahfouz
• Cairo poets, a literary group based in Cairo, Egypt during World War II

The Cairo Jim childrens books are a popular series by Australian author Geoffrey Mcskimming. ... The Cairo Trilogy is a trilogy of novels set in Cairo, Egypt. ... The British Army presence in Egypt in World War II had as a side-effect the concentration of a group of Cairo poets. ...

Film

• Cairo (1942 film), an American film starring Jeanette MacDonald
• Cairo (1963 film), an American film starring George Sanders

Jeanette MacDonald Jeanette MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was a singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie, and Maytime). ... George Sanders (July 3, 1906 – April 25, 1972) was an English actor in British and American films. ...

Ships

• HMS Cairo (D87), a ship in the Royal Navy
• USS Cairo (1861), an ironclad river gunboat in the United States Navy during the 19th century

HMS Cairo (D87) was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the Egyptian city of Cairo, was a light cruiser of the Royal Navy. ... USS Cairo was an ironclad river gunboat in the United States Navy. ...

Other uses

• Cairo (operating system), the internal Microsoft code name for a 1990s technology project
• Cairo (typeface), a symbol typeface
• cairo (graphics), the free software vector graphics library
• Cairo 52, a term refering to an incident where fifty-two men were arrested on May 11, 2001
• Cairo Apartment Building in Washington, D.C.
• Cairo Gang, a group of 18 MI5 agents sent to Dublin during the Anglo-Irish War
• Cairo Montenotte, a comune in the Italian region Liguria
• Cairo pentagonal tiling, a geometrical pattern
• Cairo Road, an important thoroughfare in Lusaka, Zambia
• Pieve del Cairo, a comune in the Italian region Lombardy

Cairo was the code name for a project at Microsoft. ... Cairo is a symbol typeface designed by Susan Kare for Apple Computers original Mac OS. It is a bitmap font. ... cairo is a free software graphics library with multiple backends that provides a vector-based device-independent API for software developers. ... The term Cairo 52 refers to the fifty-two men who were arrested on May 11, 2001, aboard a floating gay nightclub called the Queen Boat, which was moored on the Nile in Cairo, Egypt. ... The Cairo apartments, at 1615 Q St. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Country Italy Region Liguria Province Province of Savona (SV) Mayor Elevation m Area 99. ... In geometry, the Cairo pentagonal tiling is a dual semiregular tiling of the Euclidean plane. ... Cairo Road, Lusaka, Zambia. ... Country Italy Region Lombardy Province Province of Pavia (PV) Mayor Elevation 80 m Area 25. ...

See also

• Kairo

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