Lake Victoria [Categories: Lakes of Kenya, Lakes of Uganda, Lakes of Tanzania] Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza is one of the (A group of 5 lakes in central North America) Great Lakes of (The second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean) Africa Lake Victoria is (Click link for more info and facts about 68,870 square kilometres) 68,870 square kilometres in size, making it the continent's largest (A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land) lake , the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second largest (Water that is not salty) fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area. Being relatively shallow, Lake Victoria ranks as the seventh largest freshwater lake by volume, containing (Click link for more info and facts about 2,760 cubic kilometres) 2,760 cubic kilometres of water. It is the source of the longest branch of the (The world's longest river (4180 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization) Nile River, the | |
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