Ägypten baut mitten in der Wüste eine neue Hauptstadt
Von OM3X4
Ägypten baut mitten in der Wüste eine neue Hauptstadt
Von OM3X4
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Interesting. I suppose the old capital area is crowded and congested.
I would not call it the „middle of the dessert“ though, as it is only 20 or 30 miles from the old city, and Egypt is about 500 miles wide.
Egypt does have a lot of desert… they probably wouldn’t wanna demolish farmland to build a new city.
Might as well put the capital next to the suez
lol the ministry of defense is ‚the octagon‘
UFC might file copyright infringement /joke
wonder if they’ll have pyramids 2.0 out there too
Isn’t all of Egypt the middle of the desert?
Makes it harder for poor people to go there to protest like in 2011
I’ve been there and I’ve seen it.
It’s not getting completed any time soon.
Should have built towards south, because this area falls under greater Israel.
/S
Why do they keep building „new capitals“ one after another?
Supposedly to be somewhat out of reach from the masses of Cairo, but at this point, would it be more strategic and also economically sensible to place it in Upper Egypt, say, near Qina?
Building a new capital to keep the poor people out, yeah?
LoL it’s funny you said it is building cause, they already did built it.
What they’re doing now is the public acces to it, besides the roads of course.
Dubai 2: Egyptian Boogaloo
This is just a fortress for the government like nyapyidaw. Yangon (rangoon) and cairo are natural capitals
It would have been funny if they put it genuinely in the middle of nowhere. Like near the Siwa Oasis or something.
What’s the benefit of a monorail over more traditional rails?
this makes me think of how history classes can oversimplify things
good point, it’s like calling a state sovereign when it’s still under heavy external influence
Monorail!? Hopefully it’s safer than the one in Springfield.
that map really highlights the unexpected places with low crime rates
new capital is a fortress far enough away from the population that they cant coup, they learned their lesson from the past.
But why tho? What reason is there to build a new capital in the middle of the desert? What’s wrong with the old capital?
This has been ongoing since like 2016
They’ve been working on this for many years now. Nothing new.
Every few thousand years they like to change the state religion and build a new capital out in the desert. If you ask me it won’t long outlast the current pharaoh. The next guy’ll just change it back.
This is an important part of Egyptian tradition
You’re gonna build Egypt a Capital!
Well, looks like it’ll last a few years before Cairo grows and surrounds it like the last couple of ‘new capitals’ Egypt tried…
Honestly if its planned well, which knowing Egypt isn’t the most likley, its kind of good to build cities like this, it gives you room to plan before urban sprawl catches up.
Something like this SHOULD be done from a forward thinking perspective, but how it will be done is the fatal issue.