The river Nile is 6695 km in length making it the longest river in the world.It flows through a total of nine countries. The Nile is in Eygpt it touches Uganda, Zaire, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Kenya. Some of the Niles sources are the white Nile and the blue Nile. The white Nile located in Lake Victoria and Uganda. The blue Nile is located in Lake Tana and Ethiopia.
The river Nile has the ability to produce extremely fertile soil and this made it easy for cities and civilisations to spring up alongside the banks of the Nile.The annual floods contribute to the fertile soil, due to these floods the river Nile overflows onto the banks. Very little rain falls on Eygyptian land, so the river Nile provides irrigation. It also provides papyrus which could be needed for building materials and paper and it is used as a source of drinking water aswell.
The crocodile is an animal that lives along the banks of the Nile. Some birds of the Nile are the pied kingfisher, the red-billed ilbis, the flamingo and the little green bee-eater. Some of the fish in the river Nile are the red-tailed nile catfish, the tilapia and the nile perch.
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