Lake Victoria
Water
The largest lake in Africa, shared by three countries.
Lake Victoria covers about 69,000 square kilometres: almost as much as the whole of Ireland. Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya each have a part of its shore.
The White Nile flows out of the lake on its long way north. Millions of people live from the lake: they fish in it, and ferries cross it between the three countries.
- of water
- 69,000 km²
- countries on its shore
- 3
- deep at most
- 80 m
- 1
It is the largest lake in the tropics. Of all freshwater lakes only one in North America is larger.
- 2
For such a big lake it is shallow: about 80 metres at its deepest point.
- 3
A British explorer named it after his queen in 1858. Around the lake it has older names, such as Nalubaale.
Question 1 of 2
Which river flows out of Lake Victoria?
- SerengetiThe plain where more than a million animals are always on the move.
- Mount KenyaAfrica's second-highest mountain stands almost on the equator, with ice on top.
- KilimanjaroAfrica's highest mountain has snow on top, close to the equator.
- Churches of LalibelaEleven churches not built up, but carved down into the rock.
It is in Tanzania.
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