Egyptians Take to Twitter To Name The New Capital City

Egyptians tend to have a lot of ambition but often lack in imagination. Whenever building a new city, developers have plenty of ideas on how to make the area unique, but often fail to give the area an inspiring name, opting instead to call it ‘New’ Cairo or 'New' Giza and so on. On Friday The Capital Cairo website went online giving Egyptians their first peak at Egypt’s future capital city. Fearing that this new capital will be called New New Cairo, Egyptians have taken to social media to suggest their own creative names for the future capital city.

In case you slept in all weekend here is a video showing off the grand plans for Egypt’s futuristic capital city.

In a sea of hilarity, the number one trending topic currently on twitter in Egypt is the hashtag;  اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر, which translates to Suggest_A_Name_For_Egypt_Capital. Here are some of our favourite suggestions so far. 

#اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر ارض الوهم

— ahmadmehaney (@ahmadmehaney1) March 15, 2015

Translates to (The Land of Illusion)

#اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر المعرصه الكبري

— 3MŔ (@amrezat90) March 15, 2015

Translates to (The Big Pimp)

What about مدينه البهائم #اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر

— äshour (@bnashour) March 15, 2015

Translates to (Fatheya)

ام الجماجم #اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر

— شرقاووي فاااصل (@msms9333) March 15, 2015

Translate to (The Mother of Skulls)

#اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر ام الدنيا .. دي الدنيا لسى حلوه ياقدعان ✌️

— طلال العنزي (@talal_dt) March 15, 2015

Translates to (The Mother of The World)

#اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر بما ان عندنا القاهره و القاهره الجديده اقترح ان العاصمه الجديده تكون القاهره الجديده جدا

— amr gabr (@amrgabr2) March 15, 2015

Translates to (Super New Cairo)

Pharaohs city #اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر

— AhMeD (@ahmedfathalah) March 15, 2015

#اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر No comment city pic.twitter.com/A0xbijwbk8

— تليسكوب (@bataabid) March 15, 2015

A M O U N #اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر

— Kyrolles Nader (@kyrolles) March 15, 2015

#اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر City begging The new Emirates City New Gulf City Or Sisi City

— maher sabry elmalt (@MaherElmalt) March 15, 2015

#ﺍﻗﺘﺮﺡ_ﺍﺳﻢ_ﻟﻌﺎﺻﻤﺔ_ﻣﺼﺮ New folder

— نعناعة (@iHend__) March 14, 2015

Hotham City #اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر

— Ahmed Ayman (@AhmedAyman93) March 14, 2015

Old york #اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر

— إلـوچَانِسـتْ (@Mi7asanin) March 14, 2015

#اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر New Sparta

— ω∂⌊∈∈d Π∂d∂♔ (@iWeLLy) March 14, 2015

Great cairo #اقترح_اسم_لعاصمة_مصر

— م مروان يونس (@marwanyouness) March 14, 2015