30 Facts About River Nile

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

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

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3.

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

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4.

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

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5.

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

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6.

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

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7.

The River 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.

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

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

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10.

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.

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11.

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

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12.

Bahr al Ghazal and the Sobat River are the two most important tributaries of the White Nile in terms of discharge.

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13.

River 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 River Nile valley lying north of Aswan.

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However, the River 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.

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

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16.

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

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17.

One is that the integrated drainage of the Nile is of young age and that the Nile basin was formerly broken into series of separate basins, only the most northerly of which fed a river following the present course of the Nile in Egypt and Sudan.

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18.

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

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19.

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

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20.

River Nile was an important part of ancient Egyptian spiritual life.

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21.

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

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22.

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

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23.

Agatharchides records that in the time of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, a military expedition had penetrated far enough along the course of the Blue River 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.

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24.

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

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25.

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

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26.

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

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27.

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

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28.

White River Nile Expedition, led by South African national Hendrik Coetzee, navigated the White River Nile's entire length of approximately 3,700 kilometres.

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The expedition began at the White River 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.

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30.

Blue River 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 River Nile, from Lake Tana in Ethiopia to the beaches of Alexandria on the Mediterranean.

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