Question

How is the area of the river deposits shown on the map? [Egypt and the Nile delta worksheet]

Answer 1

The area of Egypt and the Nile delta comprises one of the largest deltas in the world, extended along 240 kilometres of the Mediterranean shore. The delta starts a bit more to the North from the Egyptian capital, El Cairo.

It is an extremely rich agricultural area, which constituted the basis of the ancient civilizations established in the region. It has been exploited for thousand of years, due to the particularity that it used to flood anually, and the sediments left became high quality fertilizers for crops. Nowadays it has not flooded anymore since the construction of the Aswan Dam.

About 39 million people inhabit this area, and the largest city is Alexandria. Even though this region is economically quite important, it also registers  most data-poor regions with respect to sea level rise