Nile River

The Nile is one of the longest rivers in the world at about 6,695km from its source in the south to the Mediterranean Sea in the north. There has historically been debate about which is the longest river in the world: the Nile, or the Amazon in South America. Throughout the 20th century the Nile was considered longer. Though Brazilian scientists renewed the Amazon's claims in 2007, Glenn Switkes of the International Rivers Network remarked that the matter was "trivial".