On: The Source of the Nile River: A Mystery That Spann...

[Flankk]

That is insane. Lake Victoria is in Uganda. So the water flows halfway across Africa through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea.

[garmaine → Flankk]

And, as noted at the end of the article, Lake Victoria isn’t even the real beginning. 4,100 miles from start to finish.

[gshubert17 → garmaine]

or, perhaps, even farther:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/2%C2%B016'55.9%22S+29%C2%B...

shows a location near Gisovu, Rwanda, with a photograph taken in 2019 by Keiko Schmidt, of a sign which reads, "This is the furthest source of the Nile. Distance from Egypt: 6,719 km (4,175 miles). 2006: Neil McGregor, Cam McLeay, Garth McIntyre."

[ummonk → garmaine]

My intuitive reaction was "that's long but doesn't feel like it would be wildly different from the Mississippi with the Missouri tributary". If Wikipedia is to be trusted, looks like Mississippi/Missouri is in the same ballpark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_length#List_...