Which river flows through Cairo and forms the Nile Delta?

The Nile River flows through Cairo and forms the Nile Delta in northern Egypt.

At about 6,650 kilometres, the Nile is conventionally regarded as one of the world’s longest rivers. It flows northward through northeastern Africa before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea. Cairo, Egypt’s capital, stands on its banks near the southern beginning of the delta.

The river has two principal tributaries: the White Nile, whose headwaters are in the Great Lakes region of East Africa, and the Blue Nile, which rises in Ethiopia. They meet at Khartoum in Sudan. The Blue Nile carries much of the sediment and seasonal water that historically nourished Egypt.

The Aswan High Dam, completed in the 1960s, greatly reduced annual flooding and created Lake Nasser. The delta remains a densely populated agricultural region, although it faces pressure from erosion, pollution and rising seas.