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With a total length of about 6,650 km (4,130 mi) [a] between the region of Lake Victoria and the Mediterranean Sea, the Nile is among the longest rivers on Earth. The drainage basin of the Nile covers 3,254,555 square kilometers (1,256,591 sq mi), about 10% of the area of Africa. [26]
The Upper Nile plant is the Egyptian lotus, and the Lower Nile plant is the Papyrus Sedge (Cyperus papyrus), although it is not nearly as plentiful as it once was, and is becoming quite rare. [ 20 ] Several hundred thousand water birds winter in the delta, including the world's largest concentrations of little gulls and whiskered terns .
The Nile was also an important part of ancient Egyptian spiritual life. In the Ancient Egyptian religion, Hapi was the god of the Nile and the annual flooding of it. Both he and the pharaoh were thought to control the flooding. The annual flooding of the Nile occasionally was said to be the Arrival of Hapi. [3]
The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in 2007 and 2008 some scientists claimed that the Amazon is longer [5] [6] [7] by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal canal. [8] A peer-reviewed article published 2009 in the International Journal of Digital Earth concludes that the Nile is ...
Aswan, located along the Nile on the southern frontier of Egypt, was was a major supplier of granite to the rest of the country for use in temples and pyramids. It was also a key military outpost ...
Nile: 75~65 Mediterranean Sea: 65 to 75 for the Sudd section; the rest of the river is only 1 or 2 million years old [9] Thames: 58 North Sea: Late Palaeocene Period Thanetian Stage [10] Indus (Sindhu) 45 Arabian Sea: Source in the Himalayas and Karakoram Mountains [11] Tyne: 30 North Sea
STORY: This exhibition documents life on the banks of river Nile Location: Cairo, Egypt‘Everyday Nile’ showcases work by photographers, journalists and researcherscoming from different Nile ...
It can be thought of as a list of the biggest rivers on Earth, measured by a specific metric. For context, the volume of an Olympic-size swimming pool is 2,500 m 3 (88,000 cu ft). The average flow rate at the mouth of the Amazon is sufficient to fill more than 83 such pools each second.