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That is insane. Lake Victoria is in Uganda. So the water flows halfway across Africa through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea.
by Flankk 5y ago
That is insane. Lake Victoria is in Uganda. So the water flows halfway across Africa through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea.
- garmaine 5y agoAnd, as noted at the end of the article, Lake Victoria isn’t even the real beginning. 4,100 miles from start to finish.
- gshubert17 5y agoor, perhaps, even farther: https://www.google.com/maps/place/2%C2%B016'55.9%22S+29%C2%B019'52.3%22E/@-2.2822,29.3312,4163m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xa94630f679d37310!8m2!3d-2.2822!4d29.3312?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/place/2%C2%B016'55.9%22S+29%C2%B... shows a location near Gisovu, Rwanda, with a photograph taken in 2019 by Keiko Schmidt, of a sign which reads, "This is the furthest source of the Nile. Distance from Egypt: 6,719 km (4,175 miles). 2006: Neil McGregor, Cam McLeay, Garth McIntyre."
- ummonk 5y agoMy intuitive reaction was "that's long but doesn't feel like it would be wildly different from the Mississippi with the Missouri tributary". If Wikipedia is to be trusted, looks like Mississippi/Missouri is in the same ballpark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_length#List_of_river_systems_longer_than_1000_km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_length#List_...