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Sudan

White Nile

The White Nile is a river in North and East Africa, the minor of the two main tributaries of the Nile, the larger being the . The name "White" comes from the clay sediment carried in the water that changes the water to a pale color.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in Africa and tributary of the Nile River
  • Also known as: “Albert Nile”, “An Nīl al Abyaḑ”, “El Bahr el Abyad River”, “Mountain Nile”, “Victoria Nile”, “White Nile River”, and “بحر العرب في السودان”

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Museum of Sudan and Sudanese National Theater.

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.

Theater building
The Sudanese National Theatre is a theatre company established in 1959. It is situated in , . is situated 3½ km north of White Nile.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Khartoum and Um Badda District.

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.

Locality
Um Badda is a district of Khartoum state, . is situated 8 km northwest of White Nile.

White Nile

Latitude
15.60778° or 15° 36′ 28″ north
Longitude
32.49222° or 32° 29′ 32″ east
Elevation
373 metres (1,224 feet)
Open location code
7G7JJF5R+4V
Geo­Names ID
380319
Wiki­data ID
Q4814791
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“White Nile” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wit Nyl”
  • Afrikaans: “Wit-Nyl”
  • Amharic: “ነጭ አባይ”
  • Arabic: “النيل الأبيض”
  • Armenian: “Սպիտակ Նեղոս”
  • Asturian: “Nilu Blancu”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Nilu Blancu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ağ Nil”
  • Balinese: “Tukad Nil Putih”
  • Bashkir: “Аҡ Нил”
  • Basque: “Nilo Zuria”
  • Belarusian: “Белы Ніл”
  • Bengali: “শ্বেত নীল নদ”
  • Bhojpuri: “सफ़ेद नील”
  • Bosnian: “Bijeli Nil”
  • Breton: “Nil gwenn”
  • Bulgarian: “Бели Нил”
  • Catalan: “Nil Albert”
  • Catalan: “Nil Blanc”
  • Catalan: “Nil Victòria”
  • Chinese: “白尼罗河”
  • Chinese: “白尼羅河”
  • Chuvash: “Шурă Нил”
  • Croatian: “Bijeli Nil”
  • Czech: “Bílý Nil”
  • Danish: “Hvide Nil”
  • Dutch: “Witte Nijl”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر النيل الابيض”
  • Esperanto: “Blanka Nilo”
  • Estonian: “Valge Niilus”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ujjar Nile”
  • Finnish: “Valkoinen Niili”
  • Finnish: “Valkoinen-Niili”
  • French: “Nil Albert”
  • French: “Nil Blanc”
  • Galician: “Nilo Branco”
  • Ganda: “White Nile”
  • Georgian: “თეთრი ნილოსი”
  • German: “Weißer Nil”
  • Greek: “Λευκός Νείλος”
  • Hebrew: “הנילוס הלבן”
  • Hindi: “श्वेत नील”
  • Hungarian: “Fehér-Nílus”
  • Icelandic: “Hvíta Níl”
  • Indonesian: “Nil Putih”
  • Irish: “An Níl Bhán”
  • Italian: “Nilo Bianco”
  • Japanese: “白ナイル川”
  • Kabyle: “Asif amellal”
  • Kannada: “ವೈಟ್ ನೈಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Ақ Ніл”
  • Kazakh: “АҚ НІЛ”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Nili Yera”
  • Kirghiz: “Ак Нил”
  • Korean: “백나일강”
  • Latin: “Nilus Albus”
  • Latvian: “Baltā Nīla”
  • Lithuanian: “Baltasis Nilas”
  • Macedonian: “Албертски Нил”
  • Macedonian: “Бел Нил”
  • Macedonian: “Викториски Нил”
  • Macedonian: “Планински Нил”
  • Malayalam: “വെള്ള നൈൽ”
  • Malayalam: “വൈറ്റ് നൈൽ”
  • Mazanderani: “اسپه نیل”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩე ნილოსი”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “النيل لبيض”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den hvite Nil”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kvitnilen”
  • Norwegian: “Den hvite Nil”
  • Ossetian: “Урс Нил”
  • Persian: “نیل سفید”
  • Polish: “Nil Biały”
  • Portuguese: “Nilo Branco”
  • Romanian: “Nilul Alb”
  • Russian: “Белый Нил”
  • Scots: “White Nile”
  • Serbian: “Бели Нил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bijeli Nil”
  • Slovak: “Biely Níl”
  • Slovenian: “Beli Nil”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیل سفید چایی”
  • Spanish: “Nilo Blanco”
  • Swahili: “Nile Nyeupe”
  • Swedish: “Vita Nilen”
  • Tajik: “Нили Сафед”
  • Tamil: “வெள்ளை நைல்”
  • Tatar: “Ак Нил”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำไวต์ไนล์”
  • Turkish: “Beyaz Nil”
  • Ukrainian: “Білий Ніл”
  • Urdu: “نیل ابیض”
  • Uzbek: “Oq nil”
  • Uzbek: “Oq Nil”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Nin Trắng”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Busag nga Nilo”
  • Welsh: “Afon Nîl Wen”
  • Western Frisian: “Wite Nyl”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیل ابیض”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیل ایبض”
  • Wu Chinese: “白尼羅河”
  • Yiddish: “ווייסער נילוס”
  • Yue Chinese: “白尼羅河”
  • “सफेद नील”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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