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25 best known lakes in Africa

25 lakes, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The lakes

  1. 1Lake Victoria
  2. 2Lake Tanganyika
  3. 3Lake Malawi
  4. 4Lake Chad
  5. 5Lake Albert
  6. 6Lake Turkana
  7. 7Lake Kivu
  8. 8Lake Tana
  9. 9Lake Edward
  10. 10Lake Mweru
  11. 11Lake Natron
  12. 12Lake Assal
  13. 13Lake Kyoga
  14. 14Lake Rukwa
  15. 15Lake Bangweulu
  16. 16Lake Abbe
  17. 17Lake Alaotra
  18. 18Lake Mai-Ndombe
  19. 19Great Bitter Lake
  20. 20Lake Abaya
  21. 21Lake Manyara
  22. 22Lake Tumba
  23. 23Lake Eyasi
  24. 24Lake Chamo
  25. 25Lake Mweru Wantipa

How well known each lake is: the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article on it (Wikidata sitelinks). A lake known far beyond its country has articles in many languages. Every named lake Natural Earth maps at 1:10m (with its supplements for Europe, North America and Australia), and every lake of the Largest Lakes set. The Caspian Sea counts as a lake, as in that set; coastal lagoons (the Vistula Lagoon, the Black Sea limans) do not. Countries are those on its shores, from the outlines. Natural lakes only: reservoirs (artificial lakes behind a dam, as Natural Earth or Wikidata mark them) are left out. Places are by geography: what lies in a dependency counts for its own region (Puerto Rico’s islands are the Caribbean’s, Réunion’s Africa’s), and Hawaii is in Polynesia.

On the map

Map of 25 best known lakes in Africa, 25 lakes: each one marked on the globe

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