Cairo is the capital city of Egypt.

Cairo may also refer to:

Places

United States

  • Cairo, Georgia, a city
  • Cairo, Illinois, a city
  • Cairo Precinct, Alexander County, Illinois
  • Cairo, Indiana, an unincorporated community
  • Cairo, Kansas, an unincorporated community
  • Cairo Township, Renville County, Minnesota
  • Cairo, Missouri, a village
  • Cairo, Nebraska, a village
  • Cairo, New York, a town
  • Cairo (CDP), New York, a census-designated place in the town
  • Cairo, Ohio, a village
  • Cairo, Stark County, Ohio, an unincorporated community
  • Cairo, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
  • Cairo, Oregon, an unincorporated community
  • Cairo, Crockett County, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
  • Cairo, Sumner County, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
  • Cairo, West Virginia, a town

Elsewhere

  • Cairo, a community in the township of Dawn-Euphemia, Ontario, Canada
  • Cairo Governorate, Egypt
  • Cairo Montenotte, a commune in the Liguria region of Italy
  • Cape Cairo, Nunavut, Canada
  • El Cairo, Colombia, a town and municipality
  • Monte Cairo, a mountain in the Lazio region of Italy

People

  • Cairo (surname)
  • Cairo Lima (born 1976), Brazilian footballer and manager
  • Cairo Santos (born 1991), American football placekicker

Ships

  • HMS Cairo (D87), a 1918 ship in the Royal Navy
  • USS Cairo (1861), an ironclad river gunboat in the United States Navy during the 19th century
  • RMS Cairo, original name of HMT Royal Edward, a passenger ship sunk during the First World War
  • German auxiliary cruiser Stier, originally the freighter Cairo

Arts and entertainment

  • Cairo (1942 film), an American film starring Jeanette MacDonald
  • Cairo (1963 film), an American film starring George Sanders
  • Cairo (comics), a 2007 graphic novel by G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker
  • Cairo (novel), a 2013 novel by Chris Womersley
  • Cairo Trilogy, a 1956 trilogy of novels written by Naguib Mahfouz
  • Joel Cairo, a major character in the novel The Maltese Falcon and its film adaptations
  • "Cairo", a song by Andy Partridge from Take Away / The Lure of Salvage
  • "Cairo" (The Leftovers), the eighth episode of the HBO series The Leftovers
  • "Cairo" (Karol G and Ovy on the Drums song), 2022

Businesses

  • Cairo International Bank, a commercial bank in Uganda
  • Cairo Aviation, a charter airline based in Cairo, Egypt
  • Air Cairo, a low fare airline based in Cairo, Egypt

Computing

  • Cairo (dingbat font), a bitmap dingbat font on early Macintosh computers
  • Cairo (graphics), a free software vector graphics library
  • Cairo (operating system), the internal Microsoft code name for a 1990s technology project

Other uses

  • Cairo (dog), a US Navy SEAL war dog who was part of the mission to kill Osama bin Laden
  • The Cairo, an apartment building in Washington, D.C.
  • Cairo Gang, a group of 18 MI5 agents sent to Dublin during the Anglo-Irish War
  • Cairo Road, an important thoroughfare in Lusaka, Zambia
  • , an acronym for clarifying responsibilities for a process or a project
  • Cairo Channel, an Egyptian regional television channel
  • Gran Cairo, a quasi-mythified, former Maya settlement

See also

  • Cairo poets, a literary group based in Cairo, Egypt, during World War II
  • Cairo pentagonal tiling, a geometrical pattern
  • Kairo (disambiguation)
  • Chi Rho, an ancient Christian symbol
  • Chiro (disambiguation)
  • Clairo (born 1998), American singer-songwriter