
River Nile
The White and Blue Niles form the longest river in the world.
One of the most outstanding characteristics of the Nile is that it is a river that begins in the south and ends in the north. The two tributaries of the Nile, the White Nile, and the Blue Nile, meet in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. From there, the Nile journey begins at its mouth in the Mediterranean Sea, east of Alexandria
The White and Blue Niles form the longest river in the world. One of the most outstanding characteristics of the Nile is that it is a river that begins in the south and ends in the north. The two tributaries of the Nile, the White Nile, and the Blue Nile, meet in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. From there, the Nile journey begins at its mouth in the Mediterranean Sea, east of alexandria
Description of Nile River
The Nile River is the longest in the world, stretching 6,853 km in Northeast Africa. The word “Nile” is derived from two words, “Neilos,” a Greek word meaning Valley, and the Latin word “Nile.” The Nile River is the waterway that links the Nile Basin countries covering 11 African countries: “Uganda Eritrea, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt.” The Nile is the primary source of water in all these countries.
Its water is pumped from two tributaries, the White Nile, the mainstream that begins in the Great Lakes in Central Africa, and the Blue Nile, the primary source of ninety percent of the water and silt flowing into Lake Tana in Ethiopia and the two rivers join north of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. However, Lake Victoria is still considered the essential source of the Nile River.
The Nile in Egypt stretches from the northern limits of Lake nasser in Aswan to just north of Cairo, where the Nile splits to form the Nile Delta into two branches