What is the biggest lake in Africa?

Answer 1

Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa and the is the world's second-largest freshwater lake - covering an area of 69,490 sq km (26,830 sq mi) and lies 1,130 m (3,720 ft) above sea level. Its greatest known depth is 82 m (270 ft).


Lake Tanganyika is the deepest lake in Africa reaching at its greatest depth is 1,436 m (4,710 ft), making it the second deepest freshwater lake in the world after Lake Baikal.

World's Largest Lake (by volume):
The salty Caspian Sea is the world's largest land-locked body of water. It contains approximately 18,900 cubic miles of water (78,700 cubic kilometers).

Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume. It contains about 5521 cubic miles of water (23,000 cubic kilometers), or approximately 20% of Earth's fresh surface water. This is a volume of water approximately equivalent to all five of the North American Great Lakes combined.

World's Largest Lake (by surface area):
The salty Caspian Sea has the greatest surface area of any lake at 143,200 square miles (370,886 square kilometers). Lake Superior, on the United States/Canada border is the freshwater lake with the greatest surface area at 31,700 square miles (82,103 square kilometers).

Answer 2

Biggest Lake In Africa

Answer 3

Largest Lake Africa

Answer 4

Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa

Answer 5

Lake Victoria I believe. It's the 3rd biggest in the world, four of Africas lakes are in the top twenty-

Answer 6

Africa's largest lake is Lake Victoria.

Answer 7

Lake Victoria is the biggest lake in Africa.

I wonder if it was named after our Queen Victoria.

Answer 8

Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza (also known as Ukerewe and Nalubaale) is one of the Great Lakes of Africa.

Lake Victoria is 68,800 square kilometres (26,560 mi²) in size, making it the continent's largest lake, the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second largest fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area (third largest if one considers Lake Michigan-Huron as a single lake). Being relatively shallow for its size, with a maximum depth of 84 m (276 ft) and a mean depth of 40 m (131 ft), Lake Victoria ranks as the seventh largest freshwater lake by volume, containing 2,750 cubic kilometres (2.2 million acre-feet) of water. It is the source of the longest branch of the Nile River, the White Nile, and has a water catchment area of 184,000 square kilometres (71,040 mi²). It is a biological hotspot with great biodiversity. The lake lies within an elevated plateau in the western part of Africa's Great Rift Valley and is subject to territorial administration by Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. The lake has a shoreline of 3,440 km (2138 miles), and has more than 3,000 islands, many of which are inhabited. These include the Ssese Islands in Uganda, a large group of islands in the northwest of the Lake that are becoming a popular destination for tourists.

Answer 9

Lake Victoria.

Answer 10

Lake Victoria. It is BIG. I have visitted some islands on the lake near Uganda - the Sesse islands. We found a lovely white sandy beach facing the open lake towards Kenya - over 100 miles away. There was surf - not big but enough to body surf for a short distance. Fantastic. Watch out for the crocs and hippos though.

Answer 11

It used to be lake Chad, which has now shrunk to less than half it's size of about 50 years ago. This is probably due to climate change/global warming phenomenon etc.

Only other lake I can think of is Lake Victoria from which comes the Victoria Falls.

The site below gets you maps of the African lakes : -


Africa. SAFR-014, Lake Nasser, SAFR-015, Lake Nubia. SAFR-016, Lake Shala, AFR-02, Lake Chad. AFR-03, Lake Sibaya, AFR-17, Zeekoevlei. AFR-09, Lake Guiers ...
http://www.ilec.or.jp/database/map/regional/africa.html