Cairo, Africa’s largest city, has over 15 million people, making it the 16th largest metropolitan area globally. It was once a major academic center and has a pollution problem causing 25,000 deaths annually.
Cairo has the largest population of any city in Africa with more than 15 million people in the Cairo area. This is only slightly less than the entire population of the Netherlands and more than 4 million more than the second largest African city, which is Lagos, Nigeria. It is only slightly less populous than Moscow and is the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world, beating Buenos Aires, London and Beijing.
More facts about Cairo:
The word Cairo literally means “the conqueror,” but many residents refer to the city by its Arabic name, Masr, which is also the Arabic name for Egypt.
Cairo was a major academic center with a huge library and the third oldest university in the world. The city still has about half of the universities in Egypt.
Like many larger cities, Cairo has a pollution problem: an estimated 25,000 people die each year from pollution-related conditions in Cairo.
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