Few other countries are so dominated by their capital:For Egyptians to speak of one is to speak of the other. The'Mother of the World'nurtures more than 16 million Egyptians, Arabs, Africans and sundry international hangers-on in a collision of East and West, old and new, African and Arabic. She's overburdened with one of the world's highest population densities, which makes for a seething mass of people, buildings and cacophonous traffic.

很少有其他國家的首都是像開羅這樣占據著國家大部分的資本：開羅就是埃及的代名詞。對于埃及人來說，兩者的意義是等同的。有“世界母親”之稱的埃及培育了超過1600萬人口，包括埃及人，阿拉伯人，非洲人和其他人種。各種各樣的碰撞在這里發生，東與西，新與舊，非洲和阿拉伯。最為世界上人口密度最高的國家，埃及不堪重負，這些造就了這里復雜的人口、建筑以及嘈雜的交通環境。
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