New capital of Egypt

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The new capital of Egypt is a project for a new government city of the Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi government. It is being built almost 50 kilometers east of Cairo on a total area of ​​700 square kilometers and is to be occupied from 2020. The initially nameless city is designed for five million inhabitants.

Participant of the EEDC (2015)

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The construction time is given as seven years. The cost is estimated at 45 billion US dollars. The official start of construction (phase 1) was April 2016. Phase 1 focuses on the infrastructure with bridges and 210 kilometers of roads. In addition, a gas-fired power plant was built by EEHC (Egyptian Electricity Holding Company) and Siemens , which was handed over in July 2018.

In October 2016, CNN announced that two Chinese state-owned companies had announced investments totaling $ 35 billion. A year later, the state news agency Xinhua announced that the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) would build the tallest house on the continent at 345 meters in the city. (So ​​far, the 228-meter-high skyscraper The Leonardo in Sandton , South Africa holds this record.)

The city's first phase of construction is expected to be completed in the early 2020s, while parliament should move in 2019.

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  1. ↑ NZZ: Egypt's President is building a new capital in the desert , July 10, 2019.
  2. ↑ Tagesspiegel: Egypt is building Sisity , January 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ BBC: Egypt unveils plans to build new capital east of Cairo , March 13, 2015.
  4. ↑ Ahram online: 4 firms to start on 1st phase of Egyptian new admin capital , March 31, 2016.
  5. ↑ power-technology.com: New Capital Power Plant, Egypt , undated.
  6. ↑ a b Kieron Monks: Egypt gets a new capital - courtesy of China. In: CNN . October 9, 2016, accessed November 15, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Egypt Independent: Egypt set to build Africa's highest skyscraper at new capital , October 19, 2017.
  8. ↑ CNN: Africa's tallest building is set to open, and it's designed mostly by women. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
  9. ^ Egypt is building a new capital city from scratch - here's how to avoid inequality and segregation. News24.com, September 26, 2018.

Coordinates: 29 ° 57 '  N , 31 ° 53'  E