Cairo is at the apex of the delta. Just across the river from Cairo you can see the three big pyramids and the sphinx at Giza. The Suez Canal is just to the right of the delta.Here's an interactive map of the Nile delta. Use the + and - on the left to zoom in or out. At ...
Learn about the Nile river, the longest river in Africa and the world. Explore its history, location on Map, source, basin, and where it starts and ends?.
Nile (nīl) The longest river in the world, flowing about 6,675 km (4,150 mi) through eastern Africa from its most remote sources in Burundi to a delta on the Mediterranean Sea in northeast Egypt. The main headstreams, theBlue Nileand theWhite Nile,join at Khartoum in Sudan to form ...
The Nile Delta is roughly 500 km (310 mi) wide and 800 km (500 mi) long; the coastline as it meets the Mediterranean is 225 km (140 mi) long. The delta is made up mainly of alternating layers of silt and sand, laid down by the Nile over the past 10 thousand years or so. The...
Yellow River Delta is one of the fastest growing deltas in the world. YRDNR was listed as a national level nature reserve in 1992. The objectives of this paper are two fold: to study the land cover status of YRDNR, and to examine the land cover change since it was declared as a ...
Fig. 1: Map of the Nile Delta and the Nile River Basin. In this study, we examine these issues by reporting our geo-biological observations, made at the type archaeological site of Sais (Sa el-Hagar, 30° 58′ 05″ N, 30° 45′ 56″ E) (Fig.1a). The site is located in the ...
A new look at the Mississippi’s enormous watershed reveals the true size and strength of the world’s fourth longest river.
Braided river delta that braided river systems prograde into an inland lake is very abundant in the Lower Jurassic Sangonghe Formation in the Yining Basin,Xinjiang. Their characters are distinct and significantly different from the other types of deltas. The braided river deltas are deposited by ...
NILE River Delta (Egypt)EGYPTWASTE disposal sitesLANDFILLSMULTIPLE criteria decision makingWASTE managementELECTRIC linesOne of the most prevalent and serious issues afflicting developing countries is the lack of adequate space for waste disposal. Al-Gharbia Governorate, located in the middle of the ...
Fig. 4. Nile Delta aquifer results for: a) calculated and observed groundwater head, b) map of calculated groundwater heads, and c) map distribution of salt transport for TDS. The model calibration gave good agreement results, where the calculated head matched the field observation for the Ni...