Zamalek

This article is about the Cairo district. For the football club, see Zamalek SC. For Zamalek as the nickname for Black Label beer, see Carling Black Label.

Aerial view looking south, with the Zamalek and Gezira districts on Gezira Island, surrounded by the Nile.
A boat on the Nile in the Zamalek area.

Zamalek (Arabic: الزمالك pronounced [ez.zæˈmæːlek], al zamalek) is a qism (ward) within the West District (hayy gharb) in the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt.[1] It is an affluent district on a man-made island which is geologically a part of the west bank of the Nile River, with the bahr al-a'ma (Blind Canal) cut during the second half of the 19th Century to separate it from the west bank proper.[2] The northern third has been developed into a residential area, which was home to 14,946 people during the 2017 census.[3] The southern two thirds are mostly sports grounds and public gardens, a stark green reserve in the middle of Cairo.

The island is connected with the river banks by four bridges: the Qasr El Nil Bridge, Galaa Bridge, 15 May Bridge and 6th October Bridge.

  1. ^ "Areas". cairo.gov.eg. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  2. ^ Rafaat, Samir (15 December 2000). "Zamalek". egy.com. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  3. ^ Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) (2017). "2017 Census for Population and Housing Conditions". CEDEJ-CAPMAS. Retrieved 21 February 2023.