Top 10 Largest Lakes in Africa.
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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@nakachwacatherine4922
4 жыл бұрын
East Africa is ever best my friend in so many ways.proud to be African in east
@alicenjenga2063
4 жыл бұрын
We are also blessed with corruption 😂😂
@legendovbago4716
4 жыл бұрын
@@alicenjenga2063 haha
@mydiaries6483
4 жыл бұрын
@@alicenjenga2063 corruption is everywhere.
@rahmah0904
3 жыл бұрын
Proud Ugandan🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬
Much love from UGANDA 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬
Tanzania we also have lake Rukwa which is also large, but what you mentioned are enough... Proudly to be Tanzanian.. 🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿
@mpendakiswahili3053
Жыл бұрын
Tanzania mme barikiwa na kila kitu walai...napanga kuzuru tz...hasa kuona ziwa Tanganyika
@rihannaajie3866
11 ай бұрын
@@mpendakiswahili3053 kila kitu?
We are blessed 🇹🇿🇹🇿 proudly African
@mwangikimani3059
4 жыл бұрын
I'm kenyan but, tanzania is my 2nd home in the world.
@ipyanahmajor
4 жыл бұрын
@@mwangikimani3059 mkenya wa kwanza kuipenda Tanzania
@millicentayangokunting3728
4 жыл бұрын
@@ipyanahmajor hata mimi wa pili naipenda Tz
@shabbymakapane1910
4 жыл бұрын
@@millicentayangokunting3728 😃😃😃
@laxmishrestha2704
3 жыл бұрын
Dyuhv
My uganda 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 For God and my country 💋 thank you lord🙏
@marto7537
Жыл бұрын
Basically your country is underwater.😮
@rihannaajie3866
11 ай бұрын
Uganda??
@marto7537
11 ай бұрын
@@rihannaajie3866 Yes they meant Uganda. They have more water than land.
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 it.......this is crazy. We need to change those narratives
@naame-owoyeya-malapi2454
4 жыл бұрын
Good point...it irks me how someone can disregard someone else's existence like that🤔.The other race is weird or at least their ancestors were.
@shabbymakapane1910
4 жыл бұрын
100 %
@joycemutagubya7685
3 жыл бұрын
Good point as if Africa is on Mars
@curtisthomas2670
3 жыл бұрын
He didn't say "discovered", he said "sighted", about Lake Victoria
@darrendaniels4038
2 жыл бұрын
They are not the ones who discovered but they were the first Whites/Europeans to see them
Pearl of Africa 🌍 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬👍
Proudly Zambian 🇿🇲African ✊🏽
@harveysmith100
3 жыл бұрын
Remember, Lake Kariba is bigger that the lake formed by the Three Gorges Dam! It is a much better looking dam too.
@milli9639
3 жыл бұрын
Kariba all day. Cant beat the zambezi
TANZANIA IS SORROUNDED WITH LARGEST LAKES IN AFRICA, SO PROUD
I always enjoy your videos and listening to your accent. Hugs from Canada 🇨🇦 friend of Tanzania 🇹🇿
@davidcharles4412
4 жыл бұрын
Your welcome,karibu Sana Tanzania🇹🇿🇹🇿
@bestonjoseph2193
2 жыл бұрын
My beautiful lake Malawi fresh water 💦 proudly 🇲🇼
Am proud of be a east Africa 🇰🇪🇹🇿🇺🇬❤❤💕
Wow lake Victoria and lake Albert in Uganda 🇺🇬.
@mayombweremigius4203
4 жыл бұрын
Lake Victoria is lake Nalubale(true name)
Always Tanzania 🇹🇿 mentioned in Africa.👍💪 Blessed country to live
Tanzania is damn blessed
@xara4ril
4 жыл бұрын
Indeed👌🏾
@lewismpangala927
3 жыл бұрын
Acha uwivu wewe
We are so proud 🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿
Lake Vitoria shared amongst my nation of 🇰🇪🇺🇬🇹🇿 Lake Turkana shared amongst my nation of 🇰 🇪and Ethiopia.
Proudly Malawian, the warm heart of Africa 🇲🇼🇲🇼🇲🇼
Lake Volta (8, 502km in Ghana) is the largest man made lake in the World and in Africa🇬🇭🇬🇭❤❤❤
@luluamri370
3 жыл бұрын
You mean is artificial right?
@michaelcelestine6662
3 жыл бұрын
Mumu
@queenesther3471
3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelcelestine6662 like yourself I've realised that you this nigerian citizen in particular have no respect and you are not cultured He made a mistake so does it call for insult? You know what he is even right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But it's seems we are talking about natural here tswwww 😗😗😗😗😗
@michaelcelestine6662
3 жыл бұрын
@@queenesther3471 another mumu.
@felicitygyamfi205
3 жыл бұрын
@@luluamri370 man made
Tanzania Home of Great Lakes. Karibuni sana
Tanzania 🇹🇿 is blessed land lol 💕🎉
I love my country 🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿
✊🏾🇧🇮 Burundi boast 4 to 5 lakes in total.. Love the Great lakes region.
Lake Kariba is shared by both Zambia🇿🇲 and Zimbabwe🇿🇼. It is mostly fed by The mighty Zambezi river
@samuelnketani206
2 жыл бұрын
And it is one of the largest man made lake in the world
@dranthony1882
Жыл бұрын
@@samuelnketani206 it's the largest
Point of information... lake Albert starts from Uganda-DRC 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 big'up to Uganda 😊
@onelove4all
3 жыл бұрын
Who is Albert? Is Albert a Ugandan name? It is a shame that we allowed foreigners to name our rivers and lakes.
@africaine4889
3 жыл бұрын
@@onelove4all its lake Mwitanzige. Mobutu ha changed the name to lake Mobutu and it changed since
@onelove4all
3 жыл бұрын
@@africaine4889 good news. Thanks for the update 💪
@darrendaniels4038
2 жыл бұрын
True let him make it clear
@Fashiontrends08
2 жыл бұрын
I agree 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬
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
@sylvesterjose3286
4 жыл бұрын
Quite right, but what is more important is to ensure utilisation of these natural resources to the maximum for economic benefits.
@husseinibrahim530
4 жыл бұрын
@@sylvesterjose3286 exactly
@shabbymakapane1910
4 жыл бұрын
@@sylvesterjose3286 100 %
@pelicancovebeach2873
3 жыл бұрын
My heart calls me to Tanzania.
@mpendakiswahili3053
Жыл бұрын
Hapo nayo na inulia tz mikono,, maji kila sehem....
Displore Congratulations. You are doing well and you are contributing very nice, you are show more Africa than any can do (very informative, good narration). We are knowing more Africa trough you. Much respect from Mozambique.
@josephappiah3207
11 ай бұрын
But he should speak a little bit slowly
Tanzania 49%✓✓ Uganda 45%✓ Kenya 06%®
@fettyabiola1389
3 жыл бұрын
Nipe, tz 51%, ug 44% and kny5% thats the fact
One Tanzania, Tanzania is the mankind origin
I'm proud of my country Uganda. Oyye big love 👍👍
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 🇺🇬🇰🇪🇹🇿
@nkkas7542
2 жыл бұрын
dr congo has more than 88 lakes and second longest river in the world
@marc8485
2 жыл бұрын
@@nkkas7542which 88lakes nonsense, u dont know what u are talking about ..use google and see
@nkkas7542
2 жыл бұрын
@@marc8485 Dont use google just count them yourself
@marc8485
2 жыл бұрын
@@nkkas7542 did google just come up with numbers?? Use logic
@nkkas7542
2 жыл бұрын
@@marc8485 dont give up keep on trusting google
Beautiful Mother Africa thank you for you show how beautiful Africa is
salute my cameroonian Brother! You are doing really well 💯 You channel is more informative than National geographic, discovery and Forbes combined. Keep doing it this nice.
Proud Ugandan 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🙏🙏 thank you God
Yes i love lake victoria my Uganda is my life with all our neighbors we love you let's love Africa
Proud of my country Uganda 🇺🇬
Uganda the pearl of Africa / Pan African people.
This are the things we need to know about Africa the greatest country with all kind of environment
@maybabyanyango1738
3 жыл бұрын
D J BLACK It’s a continent with 54 countries. It’s never too late to learn something new.
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 🇰🇪
Malawi is beautiful wowuu
Thank you for sharing, love from Namibia
I am proud being Malawian the warm heart of Africa
@ruthru1993
2 жыл бұрын
Zikomo 👍👍
Tanzania ni Nchi nzuri sana imebarikiwa na Mungu.Ina Maziwa,Bahari,mito mbuga za kutosha na Madini Adimu
@Mpakauseme
2 жыл бұрын
fact
@mpendakiswahili3053
Жыл бұрын
Kweli nawakubal tz
I think most of the great african lakes are in the east african rift valley 🇺🇬🇰🇪
Wawoooo thanks am from Uganda
Proudly Zambian 🇿🇲👏
@blackstar5056
3 жыл бұрын
Soon u will be no more Zambia but little China😃😃😃😃😃
You're guys are doing an outstanding work. I have been watching your videos almost everyday . God bless you all. Would like you to visit Ghana and make a video about our automobile company. We make cars in Ghana and I suggest you must project it for the World to see. Thank you
There will be always GHANA 🇬🇭 in every Africa list
@listowellamankwah-xv6pt
Жыл бұрын
Yes ooo
I am very proud to be born in east and central Africa, and I am very happy to read and see your very informative video about the 10 Largest Lakes in Africa. What I would like to see from your coming videos, is how many millionaires from all over the wold would like to invest in Tanzania, and how many have been visited the country already. I would be very happy to see you soon in Tanzania.
You forgot kabaka's lake in Kampala. Like top 2 or top 3
Am proud to be Malawian Warm heart of malawi
Am soo proud to come from the largest desert lake in the world L.Turkana.
Mannn!! East Africa runs this thing [Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania] Share the largest lake, have the three most high mountains, savannah
Tanzania 🇹🇿 all the way🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿
We are proud of Ghana wester Africa to world🔊🇬🇭
Blessed 🇺🇬
Africa is full of beautiful natural lakes
🇨🇩🇨🇩 Congo is mentioned in 4 out of the ten Lakes named here, but Congo itself more than 88 Lakes in the country and around 66 rivers including Congo River which is the 2nd largest in Africa after Nile and the 2nd largest in word by its discharge volume of 41.200m2/s after the Amazon ..Congo contains about 52% of all African pure water reserve by itself and around 26% in the world .🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 Proud of you motherland
@mpendakiswahili3053
Жыл бұрын
Congo hakuna anae weza bishana nayo ... the giant of Africa
@FeedYourGreed
Жыл бұрын
Would be more proud of the Congo if got it’s shirt togother.
@teiraalan3181
Жыл бұрын
Uganda has more lakes than either other country in Africa
@ngindubeaudine7193
Жыл бұрын
@@teiraalan3181 I'm talking about the fact proven by scientists research but you're commenting just to make yourself happy.... Congo is 10times bigger than Ugandan, we have the second biggest rain forest in the world... Congo is to compare with Brazil in fauna and flora, not with Uganda... Please , go and sleep
@josephappiah3207
11 ай бұрын
River Congo is the largest in Africa, River Nile,the longest
Lake Kariba is shared between Zim and Zambia why mentioning Zambia alone?
@christophernjaravani8871
3 жыл бұрын
Very true, i am also wondering
@Appydem
2 жыл бұрын
People have always associated Lake Kariba with Zimbabwe. So it's fair for Zambia to get a mention, after-all the two countries share the lake and the Kariba town is located on the Zimbabwean side.
Africa we the pearl of the world so proud to be An African
Proud to be Uganda point of correction lake Albert start from Uganda to other countries
Proudly to see my country Zambia 🇿🇲, Among other countries with largest Lakes in Africa
DRC seems to be blessed with a big share of lakes
I love my Tanzania and those lake and mountains was already there no man discovered them
There are so many lakes in Tanzania..those are just few..there is even a lake with Africa map shape in mbeya Tanzania that changes it color..I love u Tanzania🇹🇿
@fettyabiola1389
3 жыл бұрын
😲😲, i never heard of that
@smavilifestyle2471
3 жыл бұрын
@@fettyabiola1389 yap...there is
@aliyahkhamis7472
3 жыл бұрын
What the name i need to search
@smavilifestyle2471
3 жыл бұрын
@@aliyahkhamis7472 lake Ngosi
Plus Lake Tanganyika wow
Congratulationns
🇨🇩 we will be the wealthiest, the most stable, the most organized, the most beautiful, the most visited, the most developed, the greatest and the safest and among the most powerful country in Africa and in the world mark my words!
@ZengadechrisZanton
Жыл бұрын
You're true man of Drcongo❤
Our time has come as AFRICANS to rename Lake Victoria and Lake Albert with its original AFRICAN NAMES and the old colonial names should be laid to rest in the Museums PERIOD!!! . AFRICA our Motherland is rewriting her DESTINY!!✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥
@hosbornkwome7443
4 жыл бұрын
What's the original name of lake Victoria please
@lutufyodixon9997
4 жыл бұрын
@@hosbornkwome7443 queen of UK
@ajunabeatriceabooki5432
4 жыл бұрын
#L.Albert is called #L.Mwitanzige in local name
@annitahtara7118
2 жыл бұрын
@@hosbornkwome7443 Nalubale Is the original name of Lake Victoria
Kariba Zambia and Zimbabwe
i ame fron Eritrea .i ame very happy to hor infrormation thank
Am proud to be African
Lake Tanganyika it’s Nyika’ not yika’
Tanzania has everything.We are real blessed.We should be more rich
You made a mistake Lake. Turkana is in Kenya and not Ethiopia .If you want to know go to Atlas and you will see it
@jnn1715
4 жыл бұрын
The biggest part of lake Turkana is in Kenya but it's Nothern end stretches to Ethiopia.
@josephappiah3207
11 ай бұрын
Nowadays who rely on atlas for his source of information, just goggle, it is shared by both countries if you don't know
Thanks 😊
East Africa never disappoint 😂cz we are everywhere at least one or 2 countries from EA have to be mentioned 😘😘😘😘
Waah
Lake Albert is shared btn Uganda and DRC
Lake Kyoga in Uganda I bigger than Kivu and most of the lakes u mentioned
Nice, wonder why our region is called great lakes region!
🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩lake Albert
@ngindubeaudine7193
3 жыл бұрын
We have been in 4 out of the ten lakes named here , so we're in the top 🎉🎉 but our country has more than 86 lakes by itself 🎉
Wery nice presentation. We study some in the little scool.. Alsó from books but dont see in real, and travel is wery expensive from us tó Afrika, but like that y can enjoy
Proud Zambian!!!
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A lake is an area filled with water???? Thank you for that information, I've always wondered!
Just for information purpose lake victoria its colonial name..our ancestors used to call her the waters of nyamira
@revothomas9343
4 жыл бұрын
Even Lake Albert
@nakachwacatherine4922
4 жыл бұрын
We are about to change it to its original name. nyamira
@legendovbago4716
4 жыл бұрын
Nyamira how about Nalubale
@geoffreysoloshija1909
4 жыл бұрын
Nyanza
99% of lakes found in east and central africa
Tanzaniaaaa
I love my country 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬
All Drcongo lakes are naturally made. Not man made
I love my continent
Tanzania is everywhere!!! What a blessing❤❤🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿
🇹🇿🇹🇿attached to all largest lakes in afrique and great thumb to the whole east Africa having that all
I love my country zambia 🇿🇲
Lake kariba of Zambia 🇿🇲 is the largest man made lake in the world.
@MegaMillaz
4 жыл бұрын
And Zimbabwe owns the Victoria Falls
@onasiszm66
4 жыл бұрын
milton mugadza Zimbabwe owns Victoria falls. Zambia owns Mosi Oa Tunya falls.
Mr. lake Albert is shared with uganda 🇺🇬 too not DRC ONLY
@davidcharles4412
4 жыл бұрын
Exactly,Am from Tanzania
@africaine4889
3 жыл бұрын
He said it was shared
Thak you I like your chanel what abaut lake TANA came from blue NILE river
*DID YOU KNOW* Lake Kariba was a project between Northern and Southern Rhodesia, now Zambia and Zimbabwe. New towns were formed on either sides to accommodate workers, this included the establishment of the Kariba town located on the Zimbabwean side. Kariba was named from the Zimbabwean Shona language, derived from words "Kariva" or "Kariwa", meaning "a little trap" and "bridge" respectively.
@nomsachikombeka9679
2 жыл бұрын
True everything in Zim it’s either the country we share our borders with
GERD Dam lake will come soon to be top 10 lakes in Africa. From Ethiopia.
Lake malawi its number 1 in africa