The Nile Delta fans out below Cairo, where the river divides
into two branches or distributaries, the Rosetta and Damietta,
named for the two towns situated at their respective mouths.
The delta forms a rough triangle with a north-south span of
100 miles (161 kilometers) from its 130-mile- (210-kilometer-)
long base on the Mediterranean to its apex near Cairo. Its area is
8,800 square miles (22,792 square kilometers) (compared with
the Nile Valley’s 5,200 square miles, or 13,468 square kilome-
ters), or 63 percent of Egypt’s inhabited terrain. Along the delta
coast is a chain of elongated lakes, from west to east: Maryut,
Idku, Burullus, and Manzala. These are brackish (slightly salty)
and shallow bodies of water, generally less than three feet (one
meter) deep, joined directly to the sea by narrow channels
through sandbars and limestone ridges.
into two branches or distributaries, the Rosetta and Damietta,
named for the two towns situated at their respective mouths.
The delta forms a rough triangle with a north-south span of
100 miles (161 kilometers) from its 130-mile- (210-kilometer-)
long base on the Mediterranean to its apex near Cairo. Its area is
8,800 square miles (22,792 square kilometers) (compared with
the Nile Valley’s 5,200 square miles, or 13,468 square kilome-
ters), or 63 percent of Egypt’s inhabited terrain. Along the delta
coast is a chain of elongated lakes, from west to east: Maryut,
Idku, Burullus, and Manzala. These are brackish (slightly salty)
and shallow bodies of water, generally less than three feet (one
meter) deep, joined directly to the sea by narrow channels
through sandbars and limestone ridges.
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