A map of the Nile River with political boundaries. (Photo: Rainer Lesniewski/Shutterstock) The Nile has three main tributaries: the White Nile, the Blue Nile, and the Atbara.

In 1846, according to the atlas “Maps of Useful Knowledge,” the Amazon was the world’s longest river, at 3,200 miles; the Nile came in at 2,750. Advertisement ...

Awesome. World’s Longest River: Nile vs. Amazon – Which River Reigns Supreme? Posted: June 12, 2025 | Last updated: June 13, 2025. Rivers have been an essential part of human civilization for ...

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, as well as most English-speaking sources, the Nile is the world’s longest river, stretching roughly 6,695km from East Central Africa towards ...

What's the longest river in the world, the Nile or the Amazon? The question has fuelled a heated debate for years. Now, an expedition into the South American jungle aims to settle it for good.

Which is the longest river in the world, the Nile or the Amazon? The question has fueled a heated debate for years. Now, an expedition into the South American jungle aims to settle it for good.

The Nile, from its disputed source, runs for as many as 4,000 miles. In recorded history, no man has ever walked its full course — and in April 2014 former British paratrooper Levison Wood set ...

It also relied on sediment cores and maps from 1911 to uncover and trace the imprint of the ancient waterway. Such tools are helping environmental scientists map the ancient Nile, which is now ...

What's the longest river in the world, the Nile or the Amazon? The question has fueled a heated debate for years. Now, an expedition into the South American jungle aims to settle it for good.

The people who lived there understood what was the source of the Nile. They understood what their land was like, but nobody else in the world did. And these expeditions did map that part of the world.