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Noun: Nile River
  1. The world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization
    - Nile

Type of: river

Part of: Arab Republic of Egypt, Egypt, Republic of the Sudan, Republic of Uganda, Soudan, Sudan, Uganda, United Arab Republic

Encyclopedia: Nile River