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THE RIVER NILE.
The Nile river is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa and history has explained it to be the longest river in the world though this has been challenged by researchers who suggest that the Amazon River is slightly longer. Among the world's major rivers, the Nile river is small , as measured by annual flow in cubic metres of water. The Nile river is About 6,650 km which is 4,130m long, it flows across eleven countries and they are; the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Republic of the Egypt, and Sudan. particular, the Nile is the primary water source of Sudan, South Sudan and Egypt. Also, the Nile is an important economic river, supporting agriculture and fishing.
The Nile has two major tributaries – the White and the Blue Nile. The White Nile is naturally and traditionally considered to be the headwaters stream. However, the Blue Nile is the source of most of the water of the Nile downstream, containing 80% of the water and silt. The White Nile is longer and rises in the Great Lakes region. The Nile river commence at Lake Victoria and flows through Uganda and South Sudan. The Blue Nile starts at Lake Tana in Ethiopia and flows into Sudan from the southeast. The two rivers joins at the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.
The northern section of the river flows north almost entirely through the Nubian Desert to Cairo and its large delta, and the river flows into the Mediterranean Sea at Alexandria. Egyptian civilization and Sudanese kingdoms have based on the Nile river and its yearly flooding from the ancient days. Most of the population and cities of Egypt lie along those parts of the Nile valley north of the Aswan Dam. Nearly all the cultural and historical sites of Old Egypt developed and are found along river banks. The Nile is, with the Rhône and Po, one of the three Mediterranean rivers with the largest water discharge.
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