Nile
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Summary
Nile is a river[1]. Nile ranks in the top 0.022% of river entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34,838 views/month, #3 of 13,643).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Sudan[3], Egypt[4], Uganda[5], South Sudan[6], Burundi[7], Rwanda[8], Ethiopia[9]
- Basin country: Egypt[10], Sudan[11], Uganda[12], South Sudan[13], Burundi[14], Rwanda[15], Ethiopia[16]
- Commons category: Nile[17]
- Mouth of the watercourse: Mediterranean Sea[18]
- Country of origin: Burundi[19]
- Origin of the watercourse: White Nile[20], Blue Nile[21], Lake Victoria[22]
- Topic's main category: Category:Nile[23]
- Commons gallery: Nile[24]
- Tributary: White Nile[25], Blue Nile[26]
- Category for the water basin: Category:Nile basin[27]
- Depicted by: Nile, Fountain in Piazza del Campidoglio[28], Nile in Fontana dei fiumi[29], Allegories of the Nile[30], Mosaic with Nilotic landscape from Aventine hill[31], Nilotic scene[32], Nile Mosaic from Palestrina Berlin fragment[33]
- Described by source: Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[34], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[35], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[36], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[37], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[38], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[39], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[40], The New Student's Reference Work[41], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[42]
- Topic has template: Q17984079[43], Q141712875[44]
- Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in the Nile[45]
- Native label: نهر النيل[46], بحر الجبل[47], النيل[48], Kiyira[49], Áman Dawū[50]
- Different from: Nil[51]
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Cultural Significance
Things named for Nile include Nilotic peoples[52], an ethnic group[53]; nilometer[54], a type of structure[55], in Egypt[56]; Order of the Nile[57], an order[58], in Egypt[59], founded in 1915[60]; and Nile University[61], a university[62], in Egypt[63], founded in 2006[64], headquartered in 6th of October City[65].
Why It Matters
Nile has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[66] Nile is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[67]
Entities named for Nile include Nilotic peoples[52], an ethnic group[53]; nilometer[54], a type of structure[55], in Egypt[56]; Order of the Nile[57], an order[58], in Egypt[59], founded in 1915[60]; and Nile University[61], a university[62], in Egypt[63], founded in 2006[64], headquartered in 6th of October City[65].