Muslims make up more than 90% Of the total population Cairo, while the remaining percentage (less than 10%) Most of them are Orthodox Christians, and the proportion of A few of them Catholics and Protestants. As for the Jews, it has mostly left the city after a year 1957, they no longer have the rest in Cairo just some of the effects that comes in the forefront of their temple Adly Street in the heart of Cairo and tombs in the neighborhood of orchards. There are a limited segment Very Cairo residents owe their origin to Greece, Italy and Turkey, has been merged slide Avradhzh in the fabric of Cairo society just like some of the city's residents who returns Assets to Sudan, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.
It is estimated the city's population born in the territories of the Egyptian countryside more than a third of the population of Cairo Reflecting the level and volume of internal migration large inflows to Cairo, which contributed Increasing the city's population at high rates, especially with the beginning of the twentieth century. And doubled the population of Cairo for the first time during the nineteenth century, bringing their number 600 Almost a thousand people after they were about 300 Thousand people in the eighteenth century, The numbered time Britain's occupation of Egypt in 1882, about 375 Thousand people. The number of Cairo residents for the second time in 1930 when aged 1.2 Million after they were 600 Thousand people at the end of the nineteenth century. The city's population has doubled for the third time Year 1947, while the number two million. This means that the growing population of the city of Cairo Led to a large decrease in the number of years required to double their number, after that was a hundred years become 30 Years and then finally 17 Years. The rates continue increasing the city's population to rise as a result Reduced mortality, especially infant mortality as a result of the high level of services Health and rising living standards and the spread of education, in addition to increasing rates of migration Internal flight to Cairo until the city's population exceeded 3.5 Million early Sixties of the twentieth century AD to around 4.2 million 1966, and 200 252 Million, a rate of 23 Births per minute.
During the War of Attrition between Israel and Egypt along the Suez Canal between 1967 and 1973 have been displaced most of the residents of the Canal which Suez and Ismailia and Port Said To the city of Cairo and its suburbs and different parts of Egypt, and housing them in Cairo and its environs Between half a million and a million people, adding to the congested city that the population was then About five million people. While the total population of the territory, which includes the city of Cairo Cairo addition to Shubra Al Khaimah, Imbaba, Qanater Khanka Qalyoub Giza and Badrasheen about eight million inhabitants according to the census in 1976, and about 12 million People during the eighties of the twentieth century, highlighting the dimensions of the phenomenon of congestion Large population of Cairo, the proportion of the population of the territory about 20% of Egypt's total population. Population, a situation resulted in several problems afflicting the city in housing and transport sectors And some public service facilities.
State sought to alleviate high population pressure on Cairo and try to empty it of part Of the population through the construction of a number of new cities and directing some people to inhabit such as CairoCity May 15, built near Helwan, Obour City (Tenth of Ramadan), which lies about Cairo, about 30 kilometers on the road Belbeis, and City of Hope, which lies through Katameya Extending between the suburb of Maadi (south of Cairo) and Ain Sukhna at about 40 km. It is expected that Accommodate these new cities more than 100 thousand, 300 thousand, 330 thousand, respectively. As Was created Sixth of October City, which lies on the heart of Cairo, about 30 kilometers and is located entrance Parent at kilometer 25 of the Cairo on the Desert Highway (Cairo Alexandria). An integrated industrial city facilities will undoubtedly contribute to alleviate the crisis Housing in Cairo, where is the center of attraction for the residents of Cairo where all facilities are available services, In addition to large numbers of condominiums and villas that are commensurate with all Mistoaataldjul.
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