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The Blue Nile is so-called because during flood times the water current is so high, it changes colour to an almost black and in the local Sudanese language the word for black is also used for the colour blue.

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Blue Nile - Lake Tana Ethiopia. White Nile - Lake Victoria Uganda.

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Because they are part of the Nile proper which they form.

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The White Nile from Lake Victoria in Uganda and the Blue Nile from Lake Tana in Ethiopia.

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i think the river of the african state that is how to near from how to color that reason for the nile river of around..

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