Cairo

Egypt

Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate. It is home to more than 9.8 million people. The city is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world, and the Middle East. The Greater Cairo metropolitan area is one of the largest in the world by population with over 22 million people. Areas of what would become Cairo were inhabited from pre-dynastic and early-dynastic ancient Egypt c.

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Country: Egypt
Population: 11,893,000
Latitude: 30.05° N
Longitude: 31.25° E

Which way is Cairo from…

From Paris, Cairo lies at 120° to the south-east, 3,210 km as the crow flies.

Paris	120° south-east	3,210 km
London	121° south-east	3,511 km
New York	58° north-east	9,022 km
Madrid	99° east	3,351 km
Rome	122° south-east	2,133 km
Montreal	59° north-east	8,711 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	335° north-west	6,227 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Cairo, on the Nile, shares a meridian with Kyiv and Harare, and a latitude with Kuwait City. From London, aim south-east, at 121°, 3,511 km away. From New York, a flat map would have you aim at 97°, east; the compass says 58°, north-east. Same gap from Montreal: 101° on the map, 59° on the compass.