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Lake Nasser c.1,550 sq mi (4,010 sq km), on the Nile River, SE Egypt and N Sudan. Created in the 1960s, it extends c.350 mi (560 km) behind Aswan High Dam, submerging the more southern second and third cataracts. Lake Nasser averages c.6 mi (10 km) in width and is 600 ft (1,000 km) deep in places. The lake's rising waters forced more than 80,000 Nubian people to relocate and submerged many historic sites. Flooding is a perennial problem.

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Nasser, Egypt A lake created as a result of the construction of the Aswān High Dam in the 1960s and named after Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–70), President of Egypt (1956–70). The southern third of the lake in the Sudan is called Lake Nubia.

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	EGYPT: LAKE NASSER WATER LEVEL DROPS.(Brief Article) Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 2/19/2001
	EGYPT: LAKE NASSER RECEIVES 1.62 B CUBIC METERS OF WATER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS YEAR'S FLOOD. Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 8/22/2007
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