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Nile River
Sand dunes along the Nile River, Egypt.
The Nile River is widely considered to have several sources rather than a single point of origin, and its most distant source is the Kagera River in Burundi.31
The river is formed by two primary tributaries:
* The White Nile: Its headstreams flow into Lake Victoria, and the river officially begins its northward journey near Jinja, Uganda.21
* The Blue Nile: This tributary begins near Lake Tana in Ethiopia.21
These two streams converge at Khartoum, Sudan, to form the main Nile River. The river then flows northward through Egypt and eventually empties into the Mediterranean Sea.213