The mouth is the place where the river flows into another body of water: a river, lake, reservoir, sea. What is the mouth of the Nile? The answer is extremely simple - the Mediterranean Sea.
Features of the mouth of the Nile
The mouth of the Nile River is a delta formed by several branches of a waterway. This name was given to her by the geographers of ancient Greece. The fact is that it has a triangular shape, like the letter "delta" of the Greek alphabet. It is also compared with a lotus flower. The river splits into branches one hundred and sixty kilometers below Cairo. This territory is home to most of the population of the state - about forty million people.
The length along the Mediterranean coast is two hundred and forty kilometers, and the area is twenty-four thousand square kilometers. The population density is one thousand people per square kilometer. The largest city in the delta is Alexandria, home to over four million people. Since ancient times, the Nile Delta has been distinguished by extraordinary fertility, and therefore is of tremendous importance for the economy of Egypt.
Where the Nile River flows
So where does the Nile River flow? To the Mediterranean. It is connected to it by two wide sleeves, along which ships go. Here the river serves for the good of people: it changed its wild, unbridled disposition to meekness and obedience. Crops in the delta are harvested twice a year, and she itself abounds in large cities marked on the map:
- Shubra el-Kheima;
- Port Said;
- El Mansoor;
- Tanta;
- Ordering;
- El-Mahalla-el-Kubra;
In ancient times, the delta was a sea bay. It was she who gave the name to all river deltas on earth. Before the construction of the Aswan Dam, during the flood of the Nile, the delta was completely filled with water. According to the testimony of the ancient Greek geographer and historian Strabo, it turned into a sea, in which villages and buildings were islands.
