Why is Egypt building a new capital?

I'm inside Cairo's New Administrative Capital which will one day be home to 7 million people.

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[bledi]

New Cairo is currently a suburb of Cairo. The new capital is called the “new administrative capital” and it’s not labeled on google maps

[abhiram]

Japan is paying its citizens who emigrate from Tokyo. Also, they are developing the smaller towns and cities to provide employment and other opportunities so as to prevent influx into the capital city. I think all countries can learn from Japan to prevent overpopulation in their respective capital cities.

[ciel]

New Cairo is different from the new administrative capital, New Cairo is where the rich are staying for now

[alikhanmoazzam]

Pakistan did that 50yrs ago moving Capital from Karachi now ( 25 million) to planned new city Islamabad , at foothills of himalayas but most people who moved were govt employees, Foreign dignitories city didn't turned out to be an inclusive city , Karachi continues to be overpopulated economic heartland, attracting mases from as far as Afghanistan .

[sterlingmckinney]

Great video. So nice to hear an english narration. Most of what I can find is in Arabic, no subtitles. As you say, it seems a little weird, impressive but inspiring. The scale is truly colossal, and I've become addicted to the new city.Thanks!

[ahmedeid]

I love how you explain negative and positive aspects of the new capital, keep making these amazing videos and hope you visit Egypt soon again ❤️

[santoshsco]

Thanks to your videos uptin, its very knowledgeable !!

[CarlosGarcia-roxf]

It's beneficial to actually be there and give us your perspective from the ground. Good work.

[hollymartin]

I’ve been living in El Mukkatam for 6 months, considering moving to the new capital, to upsize and have room to cohabit with family. There has been a ton of improvement since this video… I love Egypt ❤

[lucionemesis]

I hope that Egypt wont make the same errors that Brazil did whem it moved its capital from Rio to Brasilia in the 60's. Until today Rio never recovered the losses of money and jobs. I hope Egypt has a plan to develop de old capital too.

[EslamAbdelraouf]

Thank so much for such a beautiful video ❤

[wanderview-tq]

Thank you for video, interesting information 🙂

[karielakeh]

The new capital will just be a suburb like new cairo for rich people in Egypt. The Egyptian government has been building suburbs for 70 years now to separate themselves from the poor and this is no different. Eventually the suburbs already built get more congested by lower classes of people who save to live there, and the government and rich people reaction becomes the same: build a new suburb. The only promise from this project as that it becomes a business capital and lures foreign investment, but knowing how incompetent our government is, I am not optimistic.

[bsame]

Loved your optimistic outlook near the end, plenty of other sources I have read on the same topic have mostly been doom and gloom.

[jlr_]

Isn't the Philippines doing something similar by moving the capital to New Clark City? I'd like to hear where things are if you can also do coverage on that.

[rowantharwat]

the metro line 4 is expected to reach there as well not just the onorail or the LRT. but it will be the third phase they are currently constructiog the first phase in giza, once done there would be a metro station right by the pyramids

[AnilKumar-ujqy]

Looks like Cairo is going to follow a model similar to the Delhi NCR which though a good initiative is going to cost them a fortune.
Would love to visit Cairo someday

[Excellent.]

It was very interesting and informative. ❤️

[abdalrahmanmetwally]

The new city is east of New Cairo not New Cairo, new Cairo is already housed for the most part

[gurbachansingh_macrofinance]

A very good idea. Hope successful. Thanks for the information n analysis