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Blue Nile

The Blue Nile is a river originating at in . It travels for approximately 1,450 km through Ethiopia and . Along with the , it is one of the two major tributaries of the Nile and supplies about 85.6% of the water to the Nile during the rainy season.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia that is a tributary of the Nile River
  • Also known as: “Abai (river)”, “Abai river”, “Abai River”, “Abay”, “Abay (river)”, “Abay River”, “Abbai River”, “Abbay River”, “Al-bahr al-Azraq”, “Al-Bahr al-azraq”, “Blue Nile River”, “El Bahr el Azraq”, and “El Bahr el Azraq River”

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Museum of Sudan and Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Museum
Photo: Steve Evans, CC BY 2.0.
The or Sudan National Museum, abbreviated SNM, is a war damaged former museum, housed in a two-story building, constructed in 1955 and established as national museum in 1971.

Government office
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is a government office.

Government office
The has one of the largest diplomatic networks, reflecting its links in the world and particularly in neighbouring regions: , the , , , , and the rest of the . is situated 3½ km southeast of Blue Nile.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Khartoum.

Photo: Dbxsoul, CC BY 3.0.
is the capital of and is located where the Blue and White Niles merge to form the Nile. The huge, spread-out city is actually made out of three distinct cities which are divided by the Nile and its two arms.

Blue Nile

Latitude
15.61333° or 15° 36′ 48″ north
Longitude
32.52778° or 32° 31′ 40″ east
Elevation
373 metres (1,224 feet)
Open location code
7G7JJG7H+84
Geo­Names ID
377301
Wiki­data ID
Q882739
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Blue Nile” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Blou Nyl”
  • Afrikaans: “Blou-Nyl”
  • Amharic: “ብሉ ናይል”
  • Amharic: “አባይ ወንዝ”
  • Amharic: “ግዮን ወንዝ”
  • Amharic: “ጥቁር አባይ”
  • Arabic: “آبباي”
  • Arabic: “النيل الأزرق (فرع)”
  • Arabic: “النيل الأزرق”
  • Arabic: “النيل الازرق”
  • Arabic: “فرع النيل الأزرق”
  • Arabic: “نهر النيل الأزرق”
  • Armenian: “Կապույտ Նեղոս”
  • Asturian: “Nilu Azul”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Nilu Azul”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mavi Nil”
  • Balinese: “Tukad Nil Pelung”
  • Bashkir: “Зәңгәр Нил”
  • Basque: “Nilo Urdina”
  • Belarusian: “Блакітны Ніл”
  • Belarusian: “Рака Блакітны Ніл”
  • Bengali: “নীলাভ নীল নদ”
  • Bhojpuri: “नीली नील”
  • Bosnian: “Plavi Nil”
  • Bulgarian: “Абай (река)”
  • Bulgarian: “Сини Нил”
  • Catalan: “Abbai”
  • Catalan: “Al Bahr al Azraq”
  • Catalan: “Al-Bahr al-Azraq”
  • Catalan: “Nil Blau”
  • Catalan: “Riu Nil Blau”
  • Cebuano: “Blue Nile”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیلی شین”
  • Chinese: “藍尼羅河”
  • Chinese: “青尼罗河”
  • Chuvash: “Кăвак Нил”
  • Croatian: “Plavi Nil”
  • Czech: “Abbay”
  • Czech: “Modrý Nil”
  • Danish: “Blå Nil”
  • Danish: “Den Blå Nil”
  • Dutch: “Blauwe Nijl”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر النيل الازرق”
  • Esperanto: “Blua Nilo”
  • Esperanto: “Nilo Blua”
  • Estonian: “Abbai”
  • Estonian: “Abbay”
  • Estonian: “Sinine Niilus”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Blue Nile”
  • Finnish: “Sininen Niili”
  • Finnish: “Sininen-Niili”
  • French: “Abbay”
  • French: “Bahr al Azrak”
  • French: “Bahr al Azraq”
  • French: “Bahr el Azrak”
  • French: “Bahr el Azraq”
  • French: “Bahr el-Azrak”
  • French: “Bahr el-Azraq”
  • French: “Bahr-el-Azrak”
  • French: “Bahr-el-Azraq”
  • French: “Nil bleu”
  • French: “Nil Bleu”
  • Galician: “Nilo Azul”
  • Galician: “Río Nilo Azul”
  • Georgian: “ცისფერი ნილოსი”
  • German: “Abaí”
  • German: “Abbay”
  • German: “Al-Bahr al-Aschraq”
  • German: “Al-baḥru l-ʾazraq”
  • German: “Blauer Nil”
  • German: “النيل الأزرق”
  • German: “ዓባይ”
  • Greek: “Γαλάζιος Νείλος”
  • Hebrew: “הנילוס הכחול”
  • Hebrew: “נילוס הכחול”
  • Hindi: “नीली नील नदी”
  • Hindi: “नीली नील”
  • Hindi: “नीलीनील”
  • Hungarian: “Kék-Nílus”
  • Icelandic: “Bláa Níl”
  • Indonesian: “Nil Biru”
  • Irish: “An Níl Ghorm”
  • Italian: “Abai”
  • Italian: “Abbai”
  • Italian: “Nilo Azzurro (disambigua)”
  • Italian: “Nilo azzurro”
  • Italian: “Nilo Azzurro”
  • Japanese: “ブルーナイル”
  • Japanese: “青ナイル”
  • Japanese: “青ナイル川”
  • Javanese: “Kali Nil Biru”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಲೂ ನೈಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Аббай”
  • Kazakh: “Бақр-әл-Азрақ”
  • Kazakh: “Көгілдір Ніл”
  • Kazakh: “Көк ніл”
  • Kazakh: “Көк Ніл”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Nili y’Ubururu”
  • Kirghiz: “Көк Нил”
  • Korean: “청나일강”
  • Latin: “Astapus”
  • Latin: “Nilo Caeruleus”
  • Latvian: “Zilā Nīla”
  • Lithuanian: “Mėlynasis Nilas”
  • Lithuanian: “Žydrasis Nilas”
  • Macedonian: “Абај”
  • Macedonian: “Син Нил”
  • Malay: “Nil Biru”
  • Malayalam: “നീല നൈൽ”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്ലൂ നൈൽ”
  • Mazanderani: “کهو نیل”
  • Mingrelian: “ცაშფერი ნილოსი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blå nil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blå Nil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den blå Nil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tis Abay”
  • Norwegian: “Den blå Nil”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nil Blau”
  • Oromo: “Mormor or Abbayaa”
  • Ossetian: “Æрвхуыз Нил”
  • Persian: “النیل الأزرق”
  • Persian: “النیل الازرق”
  • Persian: “نیل آبی”
  • Persian: “نیل ابی”
  • Polish: “Nil Błękitny”
  • Portuguese: “Blue Nile”
  • Portuguese: “Nilo azul”
  • Portuguese: “Nilo Azul”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Abay”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Nilo Azul”
  • Romanian: “Nilul Albastru”
  • Russian: “Аббай”
  • Russian: “Бахр-эль-Азрак”
  • Russian: “Голубой Нил”
  • Scots: “Blue Nile”
  • Serbian: “Плави Нил”
  • Serbian: “النيل الأزرق”
  • Serbian: “ዓባይ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Plavi Nil”
  • Slovak: “Modrý Níl”
  • Slovenian: “Modri Nil”
  • South Azerbaijani: “گؤی نیل چایی”
  • Spanish: “Nilo Azul”
  • Spanish: “Rio Abay”
  • Spanish: “Río Abay”
  • Spanish: “Rio Nilo Azul”
  • Spanish: “Río Nilo Azul”
  • Swahili: “Nile ya buluu”
  • Swahili: “Nile ya Buluu”
  • Swedish: “Abay”
  • Swedish: “Blå Nilen”
  • Swedish: “Blue Nile”
  • Tamil: “நீல நைல்”
  • Tatar: “Зәңгәр Нил”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำบลูไนล์”
  • Turkish: “Mavi Nil Nehri”
  • Turkish: “Mavi Nil”
  • Ukrainian: “Аббай”
  • Ukrainian: “Бахр-ель-Азрак”
  • Ukrainian: “Блакитний Ніл”
  • Ukrainian: “Голубий Ніл”
  • Urdu: “نیل ازرق”
  • Uzbek: “Koʻk nil”
  • Uzbek: “Koʻk Nil”
  • Vietnamese: “Nin Xanh”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Nil Xanh”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Nile Xanh”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Nin Xanh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Blue Nile”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Muya nga Nilo”
  • Welsh: “Afon Nîl Las”
  • Welsh: “Nîl Las”
  • Western Frisian: “Blauwe Nyl”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیل ازرق”
  • Wu Chinese: “青尼羅河”
  • Yue Chinese: “藍尼羅河”
  • “नीली नील”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Blue Nile”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Al Wābūrāt and H̱illat H̱amad.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Qasr el Shaab and Kubrī al Mak Nimr.

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