Egypt's Cabinet Reviews 39 Fourth-Generation Cities in Urban Expansion Push

Egypt's cabinet media center has published infographics reviewing the state's fourth-generation cities program, launched to reshape the country's urban map.

• Egypt's cabinet media center published infographics on social media outlining its urban expansion program through fourth-generation cities.
• Egypt has begun building 39 fourth-generation cities, covering 1.5 million feddans since 2014, compared with 22 cities on 700,000 feddans between 1977 and 2014.
• The government said the inhabited area has risen to 14.5 percent from 7 percent in 2014, with the new cities designed to house 60 million people.
• The World Bank said the new cities eased pressure on crowded urban areas and reduced urban expansion onto agricultural land.