Fifth Settlement

[1][2] The Fifth Settlement was originally one of five standalone human settlements (satellite cities) built by the New Urban Communities Authority in the 1980s in the desert east of the Cairo Ring Road to absorb the working class population growth.

The main street is Share‘ El Tes‘een or 90 St., it serves as the central axis of the city of New Cairo.

It contains financial, administrative and commercial centers that serve the city and Greater Cairo as a whole.

[citation needed] Al-Qahira al-Gadida Awwal had 135,834 residents according to the 2017 census, across its four shiakhas (quarters):[6][7] Beginning on 5 March 2011, the criminal court of the Fifth Settlement was the venue of the trial of former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly for corruption, specifically money laundering and embezzlement of public funds.

[8] Shopping areas in Fifth Settlement: Cairo festival city mall, Downtown Katameya and Concord plaza.