Nile River

 

The Nile is a major North-flowing River  in Northeastern Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world - 6,853 km (4,258 miles) long

The Nile is an "international" river as its water resources are shared by11 countries -

• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Rwanda
• Burundi
• Congo-Kinhasa
• Kenya
• Ethiopia
• Eritrera
• South Sudan 
• Sudan
• Egypt

The Nile has two major tributaries -

• White Nile and
• Blue Nile

The White Nile is considered to be the headwaters and primary stream of the Nile itself. The Blue Nile, however, is the source of most of the water and fertile soil

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. It flows north through Tanzania,Lake Victoria, Uganda and South Sudan

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

 The two rivers meet near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum