Top 10 Largest Lakes in Africa.

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Hello Displorers, welcome back to another informative video and thanks for watching. In this video we shall be taking around Africa showing you the Top 10 Largest Lakes on the continent. A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Despite the fact that the largest lake in the world might not be a in Africa, Africa however boost of largest lakes that cuts across several Africa countries. There are several lakes in Africa both Natural and Artificial.
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The Caspian sea and Lake Michigan are the largest lakes in the world, so without any further delay, here are the Top 10 Largest lakes in Africa.
10. Lake kivu (DRC, Rwanda) – Area – 2700km2
Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes. It lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and is in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift. Lake Kivu empties into the Ruzizi River, which flows southwards into Lake Tanganyika. Lake Kivu is a fresh water lake and, along with Cameroonian Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun, is one of three that are known to undergo limnic eruptions. Around the lake, geologists found evidence of massive local extinctions about every thousand years, presumably caused by outgassing events. Lake Kivu is approximately 90 km long and 50 km at its widest. Its irregular shape makes measuring its precise surface area difficult; it has been estimated to cover a total surface area of some 2,700 km2 , making it Africa's eighth largest lake. The surface of the lake sits at a height of 1,460 metres above sea level. This lake has a chance of suffering a limnic eruption every 1000 years. The lake has a maximum depth of 475 m and a mean depth of 220 m, making it the world's eighteenth deepest lake by maximum depth, and the ninth deepest by mean depth.
9. Lake Mweru(Zambia, DRC) – Area – 5.120 km2
Lake Mweru is a freshwater lake on the longest arm of Africa's second-longest river, the Congo. Located on the border between Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo, it makes up 110 km of the total length of the Congo, lying between its Luapula River (upstream) and Luvua River (downstream) segments. Mweru is mainly fed by the Luapula River, which comes in through swamps from the south, and the Kalungwishi River from the east. At its north end the lake is drained by the Luvua River, which flows in a northwesterly direction to join the Lualaba River and thence to the Congo. It is the second-largest lake in the Congo's drainage basin and is located 150 km west of the southern end of the largest, Lake Tanganyika.
8. Lake Nasser (Egypt and Sudan) – Area – 5.250km2
Lake Nasser is a vast reservoir in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. It is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. Before construction, Sudan was against the building of Lake Nasser because it would encroach on land in the North, where the Nubian people lived. They would have to be resettled. In the end Sudan's land near the area of Lake Nasser was mostly flooded by the lake. The lake was created as a result of the construction of the Aswan High Dam across the waters of the Nile between 1958 and 1970. The lake is named after Gamal Abdel Nasser, one of the leaders of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and the second President of Egypt, who initiated the High Dam project. The lake is some 479 km long and 16 km across at its widest point, which is near the Tropic of Cancer. It covers a total surface area of 5,250 km2 and has a storage capacity of some 132 km3 of water.
7. Lake Albert(Congo) – Area – 5.300km2
Lake Albert, also Mwitanzige and formerly Lake Mobutu Sese Seko, is a lake located in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is Africa's seventh largest lake, as well as the second biggest of Uganda's Great Lakes. Lake Albert is located in the center of the African continent, on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is about 160 km long and 30 km wide, with a maximum depth of 51 m, and a surface elevation of 619 m above sea level.
Lake Albert is part of the complicated system of the upper Nile. Its main sources are the White Nile, ultimately coming from Lake Victoria to the southeast, and the Semliki River, which issues from Lake Edward to the southwest. The water of the Victoria Nile is much less saline than that of Lake Albert. Unlike the very deep Lake Malawi, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Kivu, Lake Albert's water temperature is relatively stable throughout, typically around 27–29 °C , and even its deeper
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Am so proud to be from east Africa, my home never disappoint, we are so blessed with mountains, rivers, lakes, national parks, costal line best cities, great and loving people, more love for 🇰🇪🇹🇿🇺🇬 ..from Kenya...
Let's raise our flag high 🇰🇪🇺🇬🇹🇿.

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Tanzania we also have lake Rukwa which is also large, but what you mentioned are enough... Proudly to be Tanzanian..

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My uganda For God and my country 💋 thank you lord🙏

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No one discovered those lake and mountains in Africa. They were there before the colonizers came to Africa. Stop giving credit to people who don't deserve. Mountain Kilimanjaro was so tall everybody could see it any where and they claimed to discovered is crazy. We need to change those narratives

ramahawai
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TANZANIA IS SORROUNDED WITH LARGEST LAKES IN AFRICA, SO PROUD

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Lake Vitoria shared amongst my nation of 🇰🇪🇺🇬🇹🇿
Lake Turkana shared amongst my nation of 🇰 🇪and Ethiopia.

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Always Tanzania 🇹🇿 mentioned in Africa.👍💪 Blessed country to live

alfredkalaba
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I always enjoy your videos and listening to your accent.
Hugs from Canada 🇨🇦 friend of Tanzania 🇹🇿

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Wow lake Victoria and lake Albert in Uganda 🇺🇬.

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Am proud of be a east Africa 🇰🇪🇹🇿🇺🇬❤❤💕

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Lake Volta (8, 502km in Ghana) is the largest man made lake in the World and in Africa🇬🇭🇬🇭❤❤❤

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Tanzania Home of Great Lakes. Karibuni sana

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✊🏾🇧🇮
Burundi boast 4 to 5 lakes in total..
Love the Great lakes region.

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Proudly Malawian, the warm heart of Africa 🇲🇼🇲🇼🇲🇼

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Lake Kariba is shared by both Zambia🇿🇲 and Zimbabwe🇿🇼. It is mostly fed by The mighty Zambezi river

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Thumbs Up for Tanzania.. Everything you talking about Tanzania is there.. Is a unique land favoured by God during the creation.. Look on the African Map ..You can see my country Tanzania surrounded with only water bodies

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Glory be unto our God for blessing East Africa with alot of lakes, mind you there are hundreds of many snaaler lakes dotting every where in E Africa. the reason behind this is The Rift Valley formation which caused most water to concentrate inland. in fact Geographers call the region African Great Lakes and covers Ethiopia 🇪🇹, Kenya 🇰🇪, Tanzania 🇹🇿, Uganda 🇺🇬, Rwanda 🇷🇼, Burundi 🇧🇮, Malawi 🇲🇼, Zambia 🇿🇲, and Mozambique 🇲🇿.

Much love From Kenya 🇰🇪

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Uganda has the most lakes in the whole of Africa a total of 69 lakes followed by kenya with 64 tanzania comes 4th with 54 ..longlive Afrika mashariki 🇺🇬🇰🇪🇹🇿

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Point of information... lake Albert starts from Uganda-DRC 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 big'up to Uganda 😊

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One Tanzania, Tanzania is the mankind origin

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