X-Nico

unusual facts about The White Nile



Sudd

In The White Nile, Alan Moorehead says of the Sudd, "there is no more formidable swamp in the world".


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Aljazeera Aba

It is located on the White Nile, 260 km south of Khartoum, and has an area of 160 km square.

Bahr el Zeraf

The Bahr el Zeraf forms in the southern Sudd wetlands as an arm of the Bahr al Jabal ("Mountain Nile") section of the White Nile.

Fangak County

The island, much of which is within the Block 5A oilfield, is between the White Nile, or Bahr el Jebel, to the west and the Bahr el Zeraf to the east.

Jinja, Uganda

Some of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes were scattered into the source of the White Nile.

Leonid Artamonov

Artamonov as one of Russian officers of volunteers attached to the forces of Ras Tessema moving up to the White Nile, he joined the expedition of Ethiopian army of having very serious problems to real help to overcome difficulties.

Messiria tribe

In Sudan, while the Abbala lives on the semi-desert part of the region: northern Kordofan and Darfur, the Baggara on the other hand lives on their southern fringes; occupying the area roughly south of 12 degree north and extending well into flood basins of the White Nile to the south.

Nile

Below Renk the White Nile enters Sudan, it flows north to Khartoum and meets the Blue Nile.

Shilluk Kingdom

To control trade on the White Nile Odak Ochollo made an alliance with the Sultanate of Darfur, supporting it in its fight against the ethnic Funj of the Sennar Sultanate.