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Egypt’s Sandcastle: A New Capital Rises From the Desert


Cairo, long Egypt's capital, is transitioning its governmental seat to a new, larger city in the desert, designed to alleviate the current capital's severe congestion and pollution. The new Administrative Capital, 28 miles from Cairo and modeled after Singapore in size, aims to house over six mil

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