29 Facts About Nile

The Nile is the longest river in Africa and has historically been considered the longest river in the world, though this has been contested by research suggesting that the Amazon River is slightly longer.

In particular, the Nile is the primary water source of Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan.

Additionally, the Nile is an important economic river, supporting agriculture and fishing.

The White Nile is traditionally considered to be the headwaters stream.

The Blue Nile begins at Lake Tana in Ethiopia and flows into Sudan from the southeast.

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The Nile is, with the Rhone and Po, one of the three Mediterranean rivers with the largest water discharge.

In Egyptian Arabic, the Nile is called en-Nil, while in Standard Arabic it is called an-Nil.

The Nile basin is complex, and because of this, the discharge at any given point along the main stem depends on many factors including weather, diversions, evaporation and evapotranspiration, and groundwater flow.

The White Nile starts in equatorial East Africa, and the Blue Nile begins in Ethiopia.

Source of the Blue Nile is Lake Tana in the Gish Abay region in the Ethiopian Highlands.

The most remote source that is indisputably a source for the White Nile is the Kagera River; however, the Kagera has tributaries that are in contention for the farthest source of the White Nile.

The Bahr al Ghazal, 716 kilometers long, joins the Bahr al Jabal at a small lagoon called Lake No, after which the Nile becomes known as the Bahr al Abyad, or the White Nile, from the whitish clay suspended in its waters.

Yellow Nile is a former tributary that connected the Ouaddai highlands of eastern Chad to the Nile River Valley c 8000 to c 1000 BCE.

Nile has been the lifeline of civilization in Egypt since the Stone Age, with most of the population and all of the cities of Egypt developing along those parts of the Nile valley lying north of Aswan.

However, the Nile used to run much more westerly through what is Wadi Hamim and Wadi al Maqar in Libya and flow into the Gulf of Sidra.

The Nile was much longer at that time, with its furthest headwaters in northern Zambia.

The currently existing Nile first flowed during the former parts of the Wurm glaciation period.

Egyptian Nile connected to the Sudanese Nile, which captures the Ethiopian and Equatorial headwaters during the current stages of tectonic activity in the Eastern, Central and Sudanese Rift systems.

The Nile was a convenient and efficient means of transportation for people and goods.

Nile was an important part of ancient Egyptian spiritual life.

The Nile was considered to be a causeway from life to death and the afterlife.

Akhet, which means inundation, was the time of the year when the Nile flooded, leaving several layers of fertile soil behind, aiding in agricultural growth.

Agatharchides records that in the time of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, a military expedition had penetrated far enough along the course of the Blue Nile to determine that the summer floods were caused by heavy seasonal rainstorms in the Ethiopian Highlands, but no European of antiquity is known to have reached Lake Tana.

Paez's account of the source of the Nile is a long and vivid account of Ethiopia.

The Nile is the area's natural navigation channel, giving access to Khartoum and Sudan by steamer.

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Nile has long been used to transport goods along its length.

Nile's water has affected the politics of East Africa and the Horn of Africa for many decades.

The expedition began at the White Nile's beginning at Lake Victoria in Uganda, on 17 January 2004 and arrived at the Mediterranean in Rosetta, four and a half months later.

Blue Nile Expedition, led by geologist Pasquale Scaturro and his partner, kayaker and documentary filmmaker Gordon Brown became the first known people to descend the entire Blue Nile, from Lake Tana in Ethiopia to the beaches of Alexandria on the Mediterranean.