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The Nile River is the worlds largest river in the world. The Nile River is about 4,285 mi. long. The Nile River has played a vital part in the creation of Egypt, a process which started about 5 million years ago when the river began to flow northwards into Egypt. You can find the Nile River in Egypt. Silt deposits from the Nile made the surrounding land fertile because the river overflowed its banks annually. The Ancient Egyptians cultivated and traded wheat, flax, papyrus and other crops around the Nile. These follow the axes of sediment-filled rifts that formed over 65 million years ago, and which have continued to slowly sink and fill with sediments since that time. This part of what is now the Nile only became part of the great transcontinental river in the past 1 or 2 million years.