page_title: Upper Nubia
section_title: Geographical approach
hierarchical_section_title: Upper Nubia / Geographical approach
caption_attribution_description: English: Physiographic zones corresponding to distinct Reaches in the Nile
context_page_description: Upper Nubia is the southernmost part of Nubia, upstream on the Nile from Lower Nubia. It is so called because the Nile flows north, so it is further upstream and of higher elevation in relation to Lower Nubia.
  The extension of Upper Nubia is rather ill-defined and depends on the researchers’ approach.
context_section_description: Geographically speaking Upper Nubia designs the area between the Second and the Sixth cataracts of the Nile. Occasionally the term Middle Nubia is used to design the area between the Second and the Third cataract; in this case Upper Nubia begins at the Third cataract going upstream. 
  Physiographic subdivisions of Upper Nubia alongside the Nile cataracts:
caption: Physiographic zones of Upper Nubia corresponding to distinct reaches of the Nile
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