HISTORY
CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA
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Lake Chad.
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Lake Victoria.
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the Niger River
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the Nile River.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lake Chad represents one of Africa’s historically largest natural deposits. It is vast and as such shares borders with Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad. But it is shrinking. It sits within the Sahel, a semi arid strip of land dividing the Sahara desert from the humid savanna of equatorial Africa.
Detailed explanation-2: -The lake is the remnant of a former inland sea, paleolake Mega-Chad, which existed during the African humid period.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lake Chad, French Lac Tchad, freshwater lake located in the Sahelian zone of west-central Africa at the conjunction of Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger. It is situated in an interior basin formerly occupied by a much larger ancient sea that is sometimes called Mega-Chad.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad (the four countries directly containing parts of Lake Chad and its wetlands) signed the Fort Lamy (today N’Djamena) Convention on May 22, 1964, which created the Lake Chad Basin Commission.
Detailed explanation-5: -In recent history the area of Lake Chad has varied between 3000 and 25000 km2, with a variation in its level of over 8 metres and a variation in volume of between 20 and 100 km3.