White Nile

Also known as Albert Nile, Mountain Nile, White Nile River, An Nīl al Abyaḑ, El Bahr el Abyad River, بحر العرب في السودان

river in Africa and tributary of the Nile River

AI overview

The White Nile is a major river in Africa that flows into and supplies much of the water for the Nile River. It is one of the Nile's two primary tributaries and plays a crucial role in sustaining the water supply for millions of people across northeastern Africa.

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Encyclopedic overview

The White Nile (Arabic: النيل الأبيض an-nīl al-'abyaḍ) is a river in North and East Africa. It is the less-voluminous, but longer (and wider and shallower), of the two major tributaries of the Nile, the larger being the Blue Nile. The name "White" comes from the clay sediment carried in the water that changes the water to a pale color.

In the strict meaning, "White Nile" refers to the river formed at Lake No, at the confluence of the Bahr al Jabal and Bahr el Ghazal Rivers. In the wider sense, "White Nile" refers to all the stretches of river draining from Lake Victoria through to the merger with the Blue Nile: the "Victoria Nile" from Lake Victoria via Lake Kyoga to Lake Albert, then the "Albert Nile" to the South Sudan border, and then the "Mountain Nile" or "Bahr-al-Jabal" down to Lake No. "White Nile" may sometimes include the headwaters of Lake Victoria, the most remote of which being 3,700 km (2,300 mi) from the Blue Nile.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “White Nile” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.