Rivers Dictate Life and Death

Nile River valley and Nile Delta

Almost 99 percent of Egypt’s population lives in the Nile River valley and Nile Delta

Nile Delta. False-color image acquired by Landsat 7  on 17 September 2006. Source: NASA

ISS View: Nile River Delta at Night

An astronaut photograph of the SE Mediterranean Sea, viewed  from the International Space Station. Image taken on October 28, 2010. Astronaut photograph ISS025-E-9858 was taken on October 28, 2010. Source: NASA-EO

The light intensity show the distribution of population in Egypt as well as its neighboring countries/regions. Almost 99 percent of Egypt’s 80 million population lives in the Nile River valley and Nile Delta, in an area of about 40,000 km², or less than 4 percent of the country’s total area.