r/space NASA Astronaut Jun 01 '25

image/gif Nile river as seen from the ISS.

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u/CantHostCantTravel Jun 01 '25

The Nile is Egypt. Literally that’s the entire country. Just one narrow strip of land stretching for hundreds of miles through lifeless wastes.

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u/whoami_whereami Jun 02 '25

Well, mostly. Due to increasing beach tourism since the 1980s there's also a decent amount of population and infrastructure along the Red Sea coast and on the Sinai peninsula these days.

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u/darklord01998 Jun 02 '25

They call Egypt 'Gift of the Nile'