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Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive
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Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
It is easy to see from this image why people have been drawn to the Nile River in Egypt for thousands of years. Green farmland marks a distinct boundary between the Nile floodplain and the surrounding harsh desert.
