| The first government officials were moved into their new offices in 2019 | A full cost and timescale for the overall project has not been disclosed |
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| 5 million people, though it is estimated that the figure could rise to seven million | The company stated that the studies needed were done in August [ ] and it is supposed that the project will take 3 months to supply the city with the main services needed in order to prepare it for the construction work |
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| A competition was launched on the new capital's website to choose a new name and logo for the city, noting that a jury of specialists were formed to evaluate the proposals submitted to list and determine the best among all the proposals | Feedback on former experiences of capital relocation was looked at, for instance by meeting with representatives from , which replaced as the capital city of in 1997 |
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| The new capital city lies between the regional ring road, the Cairo-Suez road and Cairo-El Ain El Sokhna road | Transportation [ ] A train to Cairo is being built |
Cairo, for comparison, has a population of nearly 20 million.
| The Octagon [ ] State's Strategic Leadership Centre is Egypt's new headquarters, the complex is considered the largest of its kind in the Middle East and one of the largest in the world, much like in the United States of America | Jennings, Gareth 21 September 2014 |
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| The line will start from Adly Mansour Station at on , and will split into two branches at Robeiky | In the same month Egypt signed a new MoU with CSCEC to "study building and financing" the administrative part of the new capital, which will include ministries, government agencies and the president's office |
In September 2015, Egypt cancelled the MoU signed with the UAE's Mohamed Alabbar during the March economic summit, since they did not make any progress with the proposed plans.
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