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Cairo, Egypt

Syria and Palestine Front: Showing Cairo, Egypt, the northern Sinai peninsula, Akaba on the Red Sea, Jerusalem, Beirut, Damascus, and Aleppo. The Hejaz Railway runs north, parallel to the Mediterranean coast. From 'Palestine and Syria with Routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and with the Island of Cyprus' by Karl Baedeker.

Syria and Palestine Front: Showing Cairo, Egypt, the northern Sinai peninsula, Akaba on the Red Sea, Jerusalem, Beirut, Damascus, and Aleppo. The Hejaz Railway runs north, parallel to the Mediterranean coast. From Palestine and Syria with Routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and with the Island of Cyprus by Karl Baedeker.

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Cairo, capital of Egypt, was the center of British operations for the campaign against the Turks in Palestine, Syria, and Arabia. Between 100 and 200 km., from the Suez Canal and the port of Alexandria on the Mediterranean Sea, the city was a transit point for men in transit to and from India, Mesopotamia, Australia, New Zealand, and operations in the Dardanelles

Cairo, Egypt is a city in Egypt.

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Statistics for Cairo (1)

Type Statistic
Population 654,476