The Nile River is the longest river in the world stretching over 4,184 miles (Parsons 2001). It has two sources, one at Lake Victoria, the White Nile, and the second in Ethiopia at Lake Tana, the Blue Nile (Parsons 2001). Although these are its two main sources, many other smaller rivers flow into it as well. The Nile passes through the countries of Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zaire, Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan and Egypt before emptying into the Mediterranean. …showed first 75 words of 2965 total…

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