Nasr City ( ) is a district of
Cairo,
Egypt. It is located to the east of the
Cairo Governorate and consists mostly of
condominia. It was established in the 1960s as an extension to neighboring settlement of
Heliopolis. The establishment of the district was part of the Egyptian Government's plan to modernise and expand Cairo following the
Egyptian Revolution of 1952.
Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian President at the time, was involved personally in the design process, and was the one who chose the name
Nasr for the new district ("
nasr" being the
Arabic word for "victory"). Now, Nasr City is extremely crowded, much more than was expected from the creation of the district, because of Egyptian families relocating to the district and also because of Somali and Sudanese immigration to areas of Nasr City such as Hay al Asher (10th Neighbourhood).