SSC
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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Lake Tanganyika
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lake Okeechobee
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Lake Mead
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Lake Victoria
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lake Tanganyika, the world’s longest freshwater lake, is highlighted in this Envisat image. Located in Central Africa on the borders of Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Burundi, Lake Tanganyika stretches approximately 676 km long and 50 km wide.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lake Tanganyika (/ˌtæŋɡənˈjiːkə, -ɡæn-/) is an African Great Lake. It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world’s longest freshwater lake.
Detailed explanation-3: -It the deepest lake in Africa with a maximum depth of 1, 470 m and average depth of 580 m, the second deepest lake in the world, and the largest among the rift lakes with a surface area of 32, 600 km2 and a shoreline of 1, 828 km.