Ain Shams
Ain Shams (also spelled Ayn or Ein -) is a district in the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt. The name means "Eye of the Sun" in Arabic, referring to the fact that the district contained the ruins of the ancient city of Heliopolis, once the spiritual centre of ancient Egyptian sun-worship, and settled since 3100 BCE following the Predynastic Period. However, administratively the visible ruins today lie in the district of al-Matariya.
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• Name — Ain Shams • Native Name — عين شمس • Settlement Type — District • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Egypt • Subdivision Type1 — Governorate • Subdivision Name1 — Cairo Governorate • Unit Pref — Imperial • Timezone — EET • Utc Offset — +2 • Timezone Dst — EEST • Utc Offset Dst — +3
Administrative subdivisions and population
Administrative subdivisions and population
Ain Shams is divided into six shiakhas (census blocks/quarters), which had a total of 614,391 residents in the 2017 census, making it the third most populous district in Cairo: • Shiakha — Code 2017 — Population • Zahrâ’ et Masâkin al-Ḥilmiyya, al- — 013401 — 206210 • Ḥilmiyyat al-Zaytûn — 013402 — 27419 • Ḥilmiyyat al-Na`âm — 013403 — 18366 • Ṭulumbât `Ayn Shams — 013404 — 207248 • `Ayn Shams al-sharqiyya — 013405 — 138591 • Manshiyyat al-Taḥrîr — 013406 — 16557 • Illustration — Cairo - Ain Shams District Map
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- 1.Cited in the source article.
- 2.أسماء بعض البلاد المصرية بالقبطية - كتاب لغتنا القبطية المصرية | St-Takla.org. st-takla.org.
- 3.Eastern Area. www.cairo.gov.eg.
- 4.Dobrowolska. Heliopolis: Rebirth of the City of the Sun. 15. 2006. 9774160088.
- 5.Egypt's Eternal City - Archaeology Magazine. www.archaeology.org.
- 6.Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS). 2017 Census for Population and Housing Conditions. CEDEJ-CAPMAS. 2017.
- 7.The interactive census site is the only available digital source (non-pdf) and must be queried as follows: Statistics and analysis > Population > 2017 Data > Gender >Statistical Tables >Total population and population by sex (Choose location).
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