Upper Nile

Upper Nile may refer to:

  • Upper portion of the river Nile and its surrounding areas.
  • Greater Upper Nile (region), a region of South Sudan
  • Upper Nile (state), a state of South Sudan

Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or nile:

    ““All men live in suffering
    I know as few can know,
    Whether they take the upper road
    Or stay content on the low....””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Hard by the lilied Nile I saw
    A duskish river dragon stretched along.
    The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled
    With sanguine alamandines and rainy pearl:
    And on his back there lay a young one sleeping,
    No bigger than a mouse;”
    —Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)