Assertion A Egypt is the Gift of the Nile Reason R It is an oasis of the Sahara desert ........

Geography World - Water Bodies

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Assertion (A): Egypt is the Gift of the Nile.

Reason (R): It is an oasis of the Sahara desert.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(A) is true but (R) is false.

(A) is false but (R) is true.

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Explanation:

Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, and is the longest river in Africa and the disputed longest river in the world as the Brazilian government claims that the Amazon River is longer than the Nile. The Nile, which is about 6,650 km long, is an "international" river as its drainage basin covers eleven countries, namely, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Republic of the Sudan and Egypt. Most of the people of the Egypt benefits from fertile land and water sources of the Nile river.