Entebbe Airport Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km², Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. In terms of volume, Lake Victoria is the world's ninth-largest continental lake, co…
Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km², Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. In terms of volume, Lake Victoria is the world's ninth-largest continental lake, containing about 2,424 km³ of water. Lake Victoria occupies a shallow depression in Africa. The lake has an average depth of 40 m and a maximum depth of 80–81 m. Its catchment area covers 169,858 km². The lake has a shoreline of 7,142 km when digitized at the 1:25,000 level, with islands constituting 3.7% of this length.
  • Location: African Great Lakes
  • Primary inflows: Kagera River
  • Primary outflows: White Nile
  • Catchment area: 169,858 km² (65,583 sq mi) · 229,815 km² (88,732 sq mi) basin
  • Basin countries: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda
  • Max. length: 359 km (223 mi)
  • Max. width: 337 km (209 mi)

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