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What is downtown like in in Cairo?

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Does Cairo have a downtown? Is it vibrant? Is it safe? Here's what one local expert had to say about downtown in Cairo.

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Before moving to Cairo, a foreigner should know the socioeconomic, cultural, and spatial differences between Cairo’s various regions. As the largest city in Egypt with a metropolitan population of over 20 million people, Cairo is an extremely dense city that experiences the challenges and trappings urban sprawl. While the Westernized, rich minority mainly reside on the recently developed desert fringes, the bulk of the middle and lower classes live in the metropolitan center near the Nile River.

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