Suez

Suez (Arabic: السويس as-sūwīs), officially called the Suez Capital District (منطقة عاصمة السويس minṭaqat ‘āṣimat as-sūwīs), is the capital city of the Union of Arab Republics (UAR; informally known as the Arab Union), a federal republic in North Africa and Western Asia. With a population of 1,233,314 in December 2018, Suez is the tenth-most populous city in the Arab Union.

Organized as a single municipal jurisdiction administered by a municipal government with powers devolved directly from the federal government, the city proper of Suez (the capital district) is the only locality in the Arab Union to not form part of any of its 20 republics. The metropolitan area of which Suez forms a part (the Cairo-Suez Metropolitan Area), however, stretches all the way to Cairo, the capital of the Egyptian Arab Republic and the Arab Union's most populous city, and includes municipalities and districts in multiple surrounding governorates in Egypt as well as one governorate in the Palestinian Arab Republic. The three branches of the federal government have their headquarters in the Suez Capital District, but many other federal ministries and agencies are headquartered elsewhere in the metropolitan area within Egyptian or Palestinian territory.