Nasser City Metropolitan Area


 * Not to be confused with the Nasser City Metro, a rapid transit system serving the metropolitan area.

The Nasser City Metropolitan Area (Arabic: مدينة الناصر الكبرى madīnat an-nāṣir al-kubrā) is an urban agglomeration centred on Nasser City, the capital and fourth-most populous city of the Arab Union. Consisting of 34 individual incorporated municipalities, the central and most densely populated part of the metropolitan area is Nasser City proper, which is a single municipality administratively separate from Jordan, Palestine and Syria, the three republics of the Arab Union it borders; the 33 remaining municipalities are located in one of these three republics. The metropolitan area is the fourth-most populous in the Arab Union, with a total population exceeding 11.85 million, of whom 5.41 million (approximately 45%) reside within the capital city proper.

The Nasser City Metro covers most of the Nasser City Metropolitan Area, connecting all 34 municipalities. Gamal Abdel Nasser International Airport, the main airport serving the capital, is located in the Jordanian municipality of Sheikh Hossein, about 15 km south of Nasser City, and accessible via the Nasser City Metro's Airport Line. A total of 15 municipalities make up the metropolitan area surrounding Nasser City proper, which constitutes a 16th municipality, its only difference being its lack of officially being a part of any republic. Nevertheless, at least partially a government body in itself, the Nasser City Metropolitan Council is an independent body consisting of representatives, often the mayors, of each municipality of the metropolitan area; the council works together to coordinate and collaborate on the development and care of the metropolitan area as a whole. For example, the public corporate bodies charged with the operation and oversight of the metro and the international airport are overseen and their presidents appointed by the council; several other such positions exist involving systems and services upon which the Nasser City Metropolitan Area depends as a whole.