What is the source of the River Nile?
Gemma Craven
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One of the world’s longest rivers, the Nile stretches a colossal 4,132 miles and passes through nine whole countries. Its origin, while contested, is generally accepted to be in Lake Victoria, which borders the African countries of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. Starting at the northern edge of the lake, water pours over a waterfall known as the Ripon Falls and into a narrow opening. It is here that the White Nile begins – one of the Nile’s two main tributaries. It later meets with the Blue Nile, which originates in Lake Tana, Ethiopia.