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[[image:egypt_map_01.jpg width="433" height="583" align="right"]]Nile River
The Nile River is located in northeast Africa in Egypt. It is the longest river in the world at approximately 4150 miles long. The Nile greatly helped the rise of Egyptian civilization as it provided transportation and better trade access; it provided water for irrigation by flooding every year and a silt layer increasing the fertility of the land. Like the Ganges and Indus  rivers, the Nile River helped a society, in this case the Egyptians, become a civilization.

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