Why is Egypt building a new capital? 

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

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 ❤

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

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 .

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 ❤️

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.

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!

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.

The key lesson was the Arab Spring. Any antigovernmental hostility, the roads are closed and the trains stopped.

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

im so happy to be the first viewer.dude. I'm a fan of your work.its also great that you went freelance.

Another great story, thanks Uptin!

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.

Just to correct you there, the streets blocked by stones you referred to as the US Embassy is quite wrong, the stones form a fence around several key governmental buildings i.e. the parliament, MOI old headquarter, the old cabinet building, state security head-quarter and some embassies including the US embassy

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

What is happening in Egypt today is something great and there are major developments, as there is a new capital, in addition to the new capital, 25 cities have been built, including Al Alamein, New Mansoura, and Al Galala City, in addition to the development of all the old cities.

new cairo city isnt the new capital, the part which you are talking about is the administrative capital

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.

So excited to see the new capital .

Great work 👏

Egypt definitely needs a new capital, the problem is we spent a fortune for it. Combining that with COVID and Russo Ukrainian war. It's a recipe for economical instability. External debt has reached about 50% of our GDP. IMO there are a lot of issues we could have solved with maybe 20% of what we spent on the new capital. Education, healthcare, infrastructure and tourism could have flourished with that amount of money and it's not just spending without return, tourism is an investment for the future because we've been relying on it for foreign reserves for long time. Now we're stuck with very high inflation and decaying hope for the new capital success. If it didn't work we're just doomed. God help us

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we were in Cairo 10 years ago and enjoyed it. BUT, the air pollution was unbelievable, my eyes were watering everyday. The people burn trash and garbage, old cars smoking, saw 2 dead cows floating in an irrigation canal next to the fresh crops they grow, raw meat hanging outside butcher shops, all covered with flies.

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

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

Thanks to your videos uptin , its very knowledgeable !!

refreshingly balanced analysis, no political agenda, good job

Monorail not designed for mass transit 😂. Since the distance from Cairo not that far (only 1 hour), I think the new capital will be OK, although one of the impact will be moving the rich to it which usually will skyrocket the property price in the new capital.

Wow, good luck to Egypt! Great production, my friend. You are covering important topics. I'm glad to discover your channel.

As Burmese we can understand why they are building their new capital because we built our city Nay Pyi Taw in a flash changed from Yangon to Nay Pyi Taw because of the same reason

تستاهل مصر كل خير مصر ام العرب نسأل الله ان تنجح مصر في كل المجالات

Fascinating

Love from Egypt ❤️

the new capital is gonna be only for rich people cause 1 squared meter is about 30000 egp and that means that the average apartment would cost 3 million egp and in Cairo the average apartment cost about 300000 egp so people can't even afford 1 apartment

Loved the video but you kept on showing maps and graphics of New Cairo which is NOT the New Capital, it was another project in the 90s that is almost complete by now and has tons of people already, the new capital is further away from cairo and development there only started in 2016 or smth so nobody lives there yet

For people getting impressed from the new capital and of course since its well made and built like no doubt . No one will give a real insight of what happenings in egypt . Like the cheapest apartment in the capital would be 2 3 Million Egyptian pound if not more and for the biggest percentage of Egyptian making from 2-5K per month . Moving to such city is not gonna be possible anytime through our their lifetime . So since we talked that moving their is impossible for 70% of egyptians lets talk about the amount of money wasted in this city that because of it the egyptian economy and currency is going down to lifetime low record and all of this just to build an appeling looking city with high skyscrapers and longest building in Africa. Wow . But its not important to fight inflation that went up by 100% on nearly all products if not even more . And of course its jot important for your currency to lose 50% of its value in 8 month its completely fine . We will have a shitty economy and quality of life . But we will have the highest tower in africe and a park bigger than central park and amazing looking architecture for the rick . Lifelong egypt😂

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

About the flag thing no flag can be raised in egypt except inline with the international law and no flag can be raised higher than the egyptian flag .

3:30 war on car . We use public transportation

Seems very Car-Centric. Imagine talking about efficient cities and putting Dubai🤧🤣

Maybe Egypt can become a Bitcoin economy like El Salvador.

Egypt is our love story

Let me correct you on some points It's not smart to build a whole new city in the desert from scratch It's not smart to build a monorail And it won't solve any problem This city is designed to be a fortress for the government It's really far from Cairo to prevent people from coming and protesting So let's explain why it's not smart to build a whole new city in the desert 1: it's a literal desert it's hot Water is low And it costs a ton of money And the city is going to cost like 60 billion dollars 2:instead of spending 60 million dollars to build a new city you can spend them on improving the main city and clean the air Why a monorail is a bad idea 1: it takes less capacity than train or metro 2: it's expensive to build and to operate Why it won't solve any problem ? From what you saw it's a shiny new capital with luxury housing and luxury transport options Considering more than 50% of Egyptians are poor it won't be inhabited We can prove this by the number of new cities built to ease the population of Cairo cities like new Cairo madinaty 6th October etc In this video you talked about how beautiful the city is but you didn't talk about how it's a fortress made to keep the people away from the government to prevent a second revolution And if the people came and protested there The largest military HQ is not far away and it's like a city within a city And it has its own powerplant to cut power from the people at any time while the Capital stays shiny And it has it's own airport so if the people are successful the dictators can leave at any time

if you play the game civilization , you know its bad to be starting a settlement in the middle of the desert. thank god this isn't a game....

Not only monorail transportation, but, a light rail and a high speed rail are also being built.

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The new administrative capital will ONLY succeed if they provide enough affordable social housing to relieve population density in Cairo AND provide cheap and efficient transportation system inside the new capital as well as to and from Cairo....and from what we've seen so far that's not the case at all. The new capital now has Egypt's most expensive universities, plenty of high end gated communities right in the middle of the city, and an expensive transportation system (monorail) that middle and high classes can only afford. What is gonna happen is most poor people wouldn't afford to live in the new capital and will stay in Cairo, while richer people will move to the new capital, increasing segregation between different classes....so yeah this new capital - for the most part- is a city for the rich

Im sorry, but this video unfortunately is a bit confusing. You keep mixing New Cairo (Mubaraks unfinished Desert City Project) and The New administrative Capital (AlSisis desert city project).

Thank you for video, interesting information 🙂

It was very interesting and informative. ❤️

This is fun. I want to visit once they are done with construction

A monorail is considered a GADGET BAHN and is NOT the way to an efficient public transport system. Seeing the layout of the new city it clearly seems they used the wrong examples in the world. It seems very car centric, and I see a lack of walkable environments and cycling infrastructure. The (electric) bike is the FUTURE for transport, it can deliver sustainable, cheap, healthy, quick non polluting transport options. I understand this is in a very warm climate, so maybe more should be put into public transport. The fact they build a monorail says a lot about there failure to really design a modern proper working city.

Thank so much for such a beautiful video ❤

Wouldn't the Egyptian economy have a hard time building such a city?

The monorail is a terrible idea. It’s designed to carry a minimal amount of people, meaning only the rich and those that can afford to visit the new capital. The poor will be kept out. It’s basically a big theme park where you go get your state services then go back home. If they wanted to integrate the capital to the rest of the country, would have extended the metro to the capital.

I lived in Cairo, and it is just a one big traffic jam. You can't even walk on the sidewalks do to the trash piles.

I think they are doing little over extra they should made the current City better than building a 5 city's

Egypt could take those loans from the IMF/China and invested in improving Cairo with new Metro Lines, Parks, etc. Instead they choose to build a brand new Capital in the middle of the desert, distant from the public and even worse, distant from any source of drinkable water.

Hoping it's gonna work well 🙏

I enjoyed your video, being balanced. I am from Egypt, but bored of the negative impressions I get from other RU-vidrs.

9:30 because Egypt is surrounded by desert, so no such thing as deforestation concern

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I love this mega project

Nice to see a positive take on this

What will the name of the capital? What are the name candidates?

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The capital in US was Philadelphia not new york

Bro, indonesian capital not built on forest, its built on industrial forest, please ask more reliable source

We build Putrajaya and Batterseapower station out of nothing too

Thanks 👍 The tallest tower in Africa is being built in the new capital of Egypt Although Egypt does not have resources like the rest of the Middle East But it has progressed a lot

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

3:42 says the traffic is crazy, shows a normal street

I believe Indonesia is also building a new capital city.

Thanks for clarification

I proud to be Egyptian ❤❤❤and im one of engineer's built it

Egypt has over 500 billion dollars in mega projects. The capital is just a small part.

Now I am definitely no Urban Planner, but looking at the size of Cairo, and the size of that new city, plus how close the two are together makes me think that it won't help with the congestion because they're just gonna grow together

Two other points (im Egyptian and have lived 15 years there). First of all nobody that told you they are happy and looking forward to this capital are telling the truth, Egyptians are scared of the repercussions that come from just 1 word against the government, anything can get you in jail, we have never had a higher number of prisoners and all of them because of what they said, second of all this money could have been used to expand cairo itself make metro stations, better buses, redo some roads, this is 40 billion we are talking about, this new capital is just pure stupidity, the tallest building, the biggest park the octogone, 8 times de pentagon, a gigantic park two times bigger than in New York? In a fucking desert? Its all a waste of money that could have gone to really helping the poor, but that was never the goals of a dictator in any country

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They should build a city for manufacturing, workshops converting raw materials to actual products to increase the economic activity. He the president should ask the workshop owners who make things in tiny streets to come here and set up shop. This new city needs manufacturing sector so Old Cairo can loosen up.

If country don’t development into infrastructure it stagnant to create a new capital new city and green technology ad move the population into the new area .

The sentence that Indonesia cut the jungle is just wrong. I come from east Borneo, 100km from new capital. There is already no more jungle near the cities there. The real jungle has been gone since 20-30 years ago.

Because their dictator said so P.s. The plans for the city doesnt seem to include that much low incone housing (which is badly needed by the average Egyptian population). The whole city seems like a city for the rich. The city is just a way for the Egyptian dictator to show off his wealth just like the other dictators in the middle east. If they really wanted to benefit the Egyptian people, they should improve the already existing cities instead by building more affordable housing, adding and improving public transportation,etc.

we don't have money to build houses for poor people. and then we have money from IMF debt to build homes for 7 million rich people. and the military palace of the pectagon

Just a note that a lot of the things that are being said in the video are not accurate. Ex. the US embassy. Also, the pollution is also due to not enough city employees cleaning up trash on the streets and the citizens not doing their part in keeping their city clean.

Uhh wtf? You saw one monorail and ignored all the giant highways?! If look on google maps as well the only thing you see are car depended suburbs and huge roads through this new “city”

THREE LOANS 20 BILLION USA DOLLARS. SHOULD HAVE PUT MONEY IN CHIP MANUFACTURE.

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yes same goes to Putrajaya Malaysia. we did it 20 yrs ago

It's called a dictator vanity project.

Thier should be big parks and osis for the pollution to stop in eygpt,meby make a lake in the middle of themdesert in eygpt and plants some trees and dirt around it.

It must also be referenced that Sisi is not a president but a dictator

Qtar is an example, Dubai, UAE and Japan.

The people who will live there will be government loyalists or allies in state-owned companies

Cairo still isn't as choked as Lagos state in Nigeria.

This didnt work in Myanmar (Burma) and I doubt it'll work here

new city is for rich people

If it was free then good idea but with all the problems Egypt has with economy/inflation it is a luxury it can’t afford right now. I’ve heard from other videos that they are building this to not be affected as much from popular protects of common people.

What website did he use to compare Singapore to Cairo????

The new city has it's own budget, which came from selling some spaces in the same city to real-estate companies 😅 🇪🇬EGYPT debt $165B (313% Currency Crash in 10 years) 🇹🇷TURKEY debt $475B (1222% currency crash in 10 years) In 2023, Irdogan 🇹🇷 took the same way to build a new city with debt. He is asking for $35B from the Int. Bank 🏦