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The Nile is the longest river in the world
Spanning over 6,600 kilometres, the Nile flows northwards through eleven African nations before reaching the Mediterranean Sea.
The Nile has two main tributaries: the White Nile, which rises in equatorial East Africa, and the Blue Nile, which supplies most of the water and fertile silt from Ethiopia. The river basin covers about ten per cent of the African continent. Ancient Egyptian civilisation relied entirely on its annual seasonal flooding for agriculture.
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The Nile is the longest river in the world: the short answers
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- Spanning over 6,600 kilometres, the Nile flows northwards through eleven African nations before reaching the Mediterranean Sea. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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