The White Nile

The White Nile flows through Southern African countries and reaches Sudan through a complex system of rough and often non navigable rapid waters.

Good for rafters but not much use to traders who depend on a water way for a trading route.

The White Nile is one of the two main tributaries of the Nile River. A tributary is by definition a stream or river that flows into a main or parent river and not directly into the ocean or the sea.

The Arabic name of this White tributary river is an-Nil-al-Abyad.

The White Nile is some 2300 miles long. It bifurcates from the main Nile at Khartoum in Sudan and runs up stream towards Lake Victoria and into the countries of Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zaire (Congo).

The portion of the White Nile nearest Lake Victoria is often referred to as the Victoria Nile. As the Victoria Nile enters Sudan it becomes known as the Mountain Nile or River of the Mountain, or even the Bahr Al Jabal. This portion of the river reaches Lake No where it becomes the White Nile from Juba, Sudan, to Khartoum, Sudan.

• The Nile River


• The White Nile


• The Blue Nile


• Uganda Nile


• Sudan Nile


• Egypt Nile


• Zaire Nile


• Kenya Nile


• Tanzania Nile


• Rwanda Nile


• Ethiopia Nile


• Burundi Nile