6th of October is a city in the Giza Governorate of Egypt, located adjacent to Giza, and is part of the Greater Cairo region. It is a satellite city that was established as a new city in the desert and named after the day that the 1973 Arab-Israeli War broke out). The city has a population of 450,000 people as of the 2017 national census). It served as the capital of the now-defunct 6th of October Governorate, which was dissolved in 2011). The city hosts many local and foreign students and has one of the largest industrial zones in Egypt, which provides jobs for employees within the city as well as from other parts of Giza). The city has several churches, and the most famous of them is Redeem Christian Church of God (RCCG) ). The date October 6th also refers to the Yom Kippur War, a war between Israel and Egypt and allied Syria which broke out on October 6, 1973.