Ranked shortlist · 10 of 30 pharmacies and drug stores
Best pharmacies and drug stores in Cairo
The 10 most notable pharmacies and drug stores in Cairo, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Dr Zakaria pharmacy
صلاح الدين امام مركز شباب نور المقطم, Salah Eldeen Alayobi St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.323, percentile 100 of 30
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2
Delmar & Attalla Pharmacies
13 Sherif Pasha St, In Front of El Ahram Clothes
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.313, percentile 96.55 of 30
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3
Misr Pharmacies, Al Hakim Branch
176 El Tahrir
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.224, percentile 93.1 of 30
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4
Misr Pharmacies - Sphinx Branch
اول شارع احمد عرابي, Sphinx Square
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.175, percentile 89.66 of 30
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5
صيدليات د سالم
El Tahrir
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.100, percentile 86.21 of 30
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6
كنيسة السيدة العذراء مريم ارض الشركة
العزب
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 2.095, percentile 82.76 of 30
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7
Misr Pharmacies - Zamalek
ش Hassan Sabry St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 2.070, percentile 79.31 of 30
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8
Misr Pharmacies
بجوار محطة مترو مسرة, 12 إبن الفرات, 77 Shobra
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.956, percentile 75.86 of 30
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9
Roshdy Pharmacies
335 Port Said St
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.954, percentile 72.41 of 30
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10
صيدليات الليثي
28 Mohammed Mazhar
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.949, percentile 68.97 of 30
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).