Giza (egy)

Giza

Giza ranks 1,948th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kruševac, Bozhou, and Arcadia, California. Memorable people born in Giza include Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ali ibn Ridwan, and Essam Sharaf. Memorable people who died in Giza include Boutros Boutros-Ghali, George Andrew Reisner, and Aisha Rateb. Giza has been the birth place of many soccer players, and extremists and the death place of many diplomats, and politicians. Giza is located in Egypt.

Giza is the third-largest city in Egypt by area after Cairo and Alexandria; and fourth-largest city in Africa by population after Kinshasa, Lagos, and Cairo. It is the capital of Giza Governorate with a total population of 4,872,448 in the 2017 census. It is located on the west bank of the Nile opposite central Cairo, and is a part of the Greater Cairo metropolis. Giza lies less than 30 km (18.64 mi) north of Memphis, which was the capital city of the unified Egyptian state during the reign of pharaoh Narmer, roughly 3100 BC. Read more on Wikipedia