The Nile River Does Not Flow Through Morocco or Western Sahara

No, the Nile River does not run through Morocco or Western Sahara.

The Nile flows through northeastern Africa only. Its course:

  1. White Nile source: Lake Victoria (Uganda/Tanzania/Kenya) → South Sudan → Sudan.
  2. Blue Nile source: Lake Tana (Ethiopia) → Sudan.
  3. Confluence at Khartoum, Sudan.
  4. Main Nile flows north through Sudan and Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea.

Morocco and Western Sahara are in northwestern Africa**, thousands of kilometers west of the Nile Basin. Their drainage is to the Atlantic (Morocco: Sebou, Moulouya, Oum Er-Rbia; Western Sahara: intermittent wadis).

The confusion may arise from "North Africa" as a broad region, but hydrologically, the Nile and Maghreb basins are entirely separate.

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