Nile River On Map Of Africa
It is also the longest river in the world with its length put at 6 650 km 4 132mi.
Nile river on map of africa. Map is in nice condition has some yellowing along original fold lines but not as pronounced as shown in scan please see photos for actual tone of map. Rate 5 stars rate 4. The river long seen as an egyptian birthright supplies. Made famous by its impressively large size the river is believed to start from south of the equator to northward through northeastern africa.
Im assuming this to be a fairly rare map as i cant find another example of it online. Africa quiz country quiz. Over 90 of the country s 100m people live along the nile or in its vast delta. The white nile is longer and rises in the great lakes region of central africa with the most distant source still undetermined but located in either rwanda or burundi.
The blue nile begins at lake tana in ethiopia and flows into sudan from the southeast. Sand dunes along the nile river egypt nicolas lecoz fotolia. 18 4500 n 33 3833 e the longest river flowing through the continent of africa is the nile river. The river flows northwards from burundi through rwanda uganda south sudan sudan ethiopia and egypt on its way to the mediterranean sea.
Its most distant source is the kagera river in burundi. It is a river nestled in the eastern part of the african continent whose basin is home to uganda ethiopia tanzania rwanda burundi kenya sudan south sudan eritrea democratic republic of the congo and of course egypt. Can you name the countries that the nile river goes through. It drains into the mediterranean sea draining in an area estimated at 1 293 000 square miles.
By guilherme 4 plays quiz updated aug 5 2015. It flows north through tanzania lake victoria uganda and south sudan. Its basin includes parts of tanzania burundi rwanda the democratic republic of the congo kenya uganda south sudan ethiopia sudan and the cultivated part of egypt. River nile has proven to be a channel and link to different countries in the continent.
It runs through nile river from source to mouth reizen langs rivieren travelling. The blue nile in ethiopia and the white nile in burundi.