Lakes in Africa

Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika is one of the African Great Lakes. With a depth of 1,470 meters (4,820 feet), it is the second deepest lake in the ...

Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria (or Victoria Nyanza in the Bantu language) is the largest of the African Great Lakes, the largest lake in Africa and the world’s ...

Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi is one of the African Great Lakes. It is the 9th largest lake in the world and the third largest lake in Africa by surface area. It is also the ...

Aral Sea

The Aral Sea is an endorheic lake lying between the Aktobe and Kyzylorda regions of Kazakhstan and the Karakalpakstan autonomous region of Uzbekistan. Once ...

Lake Turkana

Lake Turkana is located in the Kenyan rift valley, bordered to the North by Ethiopia, and it is the world’s largest alkaline and permanent desert ...

Lake Kivu

Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes, situated on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its name originates from a Bantu ...

Lake Nasser

Lake Nasser is one of the largest man-made lakes in the World, located in Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan. The lake is stocked with food fish, making it ...

Lake Volta

Lake Volta, located in the South-Eastern part of Ghana, is the largest man-made lake in the world. Covering 8,502 km2, it is the biggest reservoir by ...

Lake Kariba

Boasting 180 km3 of freshwater, Lake Kariba, located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, is the largest reservoir in the world by volume. The hydroelectric power plant on Kariba ...

Lake Albert

Lake Albert, also known as Albert Nyanza and formerly known as Mobutu Sese Seko, is Africa’s 7th largest lake by surface area, and is the ...

Lake Rukwa

Lake Rukwa is an endorheic lake, part of the Western Rift Valley of Africa, located in the Southwestern area of ...

Lake Mweru

Lake Mweru is a natural freshwater lake, part of the rift valley lakes, located between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is the second ...

Lake Cahora Bassa

Cahora Bassa is the fourth largest artificial lake in Africa, only preceded by Lake Volta (Ghana), Lake Kariba (located between Zimbabwe and Zambia) and ...

Lake Edward

Lake Edward is the smallest of the African Great Rift Lakes, located on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and ...

Lake Chad

Lake Chad is a large, but shallow endorheic lake located on the African continent, in the Western part of Chad, on the edge of the Sahara desert. In the 1960’s it was the ...

Lake Fundudzi

Lake Fundudzi is located in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, in the Soutpansberg area. Because the lake is considered sacred by the local Vhatatsindi ...