Senegal The coastal road facing the
Atlantic Ocean in the capital city of
Dakar is called the
Corniche Ouest and runs along a cliff above the beaches and rocky shores.
South Africa Many of the roads running around the
Cape Peninsula, south of
Cape Town, have been constructed in the form of corniches. A good example is part of Victoria Road running through the suburbs of
Clifton and
Bantry Bay.
Libya The
Tripoli Corniche, also known as Al-Fatah Street, runs along the Mediterranean from the Waddan Bridge to the roundabout at Tripoli's sea port entrance.
Egypt Any waterfront passage along a body of water is classed as a corniche in
Egypt. Most
Nile valley and
Delta cities overlooking the 1000 km river course and two branches in the country have one or two corniche streets (east and/or west banks). For example "Corniche
Giza" and "Corniche
Cairo", the longest Egyptian corniche. Other cities such as
Mansoura,
Damietta and
Luxor also have corniches. • The 18 km
Corniche al-Nil Street (Arabic: شارع كورنيش النيل) promenade in Cairo (east bank of the
Nile) runs from the
Maadi district in the south, to the mouth of the Ismailia Canal in
al-Sahel district in the north. Building numbers take on one to two digits in
Maadi where numbering starts, where for example the Holiday Inn hotel is 29 A Corniche al-Nile, and up to four digits in the northern half due to it length, where the
Ramses Hilton hotel's address in
Bulaq is 1115 Corniche al-Nil. The street colloquially takes on the names of some of the districts and neighbourhoods it passes through such as the
Maadi Corniche, and Corniche Masr al-Qadima (
Old Cairo). • The promenade that runs from the
Giza Zoo to the balloon theater in
Agouza is colloquially known as the Giza Corniche. • The promenade running from
Montazah Palace walls to the
Qaitbay Citadel in Alexandria is known as
Corniche (Alexandria) by sunset, stretching along the city's residential coast line Though the word itself comes from French, the Egyptian usage has led neighboring Arab countries, which are not
francophone and have no French influence, to adopt the word. These include Sudan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar. ==Middle East==