Districts of Nasser City

Nasser City, the national capital of the Arab Union, consists of 18 districts, local administrative units known by the Arabic term nahiya (ناحية nāḥiyah; pl. نواحي nawāḥī) and left untranslated in official English publications. Each nahiya is represented by two out of 36 elected councillors who, together, form Nasser City Council, the local authority responsible for developing and formalising policy, passing bylaws and local ordinances, preparing the city budget, and appointing and supervising the Nasser City Executive.

The nahiya system also functions as a standardised urban locality/neighbourhood scheme—district boundaries closely reflect contrasts in urban planning and design, social and economic functionality, and cultural geography, with each nahiya constituting a discrete section of the urban landscape. The Commons, for example, is the capital's formally designated city centre, encompassing the central business and financial districts; Sultan's Grove, by comparison, is the capital's main shopping and entertainment district, known for its luxury hotels, upscale shopping centres, designer outlets, speciality shops and boutiques, as well as a sophisticated gastronomy scene, coffee culture and bustling nightlife; while Bab al-Mutasarref, the national government precinct, is the seat of the government of the Arab Union and location of most subordinate ministry and agency headquarters, federal institutions and other organs of the national bureaucracy. Situated shoulder to shoulder and delimited by a pair of austere boulevards, these three districts together form the wider urban core of the capital.

List

 * 1) Bab el-Mutasarref
 * 2) Basateen es-Sanjak
 * 3) Beit Zera
 * 4) Bojak Safeh el-Mitras
 * 5) The Commons
 * 6) Dar Sheikh Shamekh
 * 7) Ed-Delhemiya
 * 8) El-Quhwana
 * 9) Er-Rubbeid
 * 10) Karm Jisr el-Majami
 * 11) Khirbet Kabari
 * 12) Khirbet Umm Jouna
 * 13) Kiryat Shams
 * 14) Mawakeb el-Arbaein
 * 15) Rahbanat Mar Youhana
 * 16) Shaddat Yaqoub
 * 17) Sultan's Grove
 * 18) Umm el-Masari