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Friday, December 28, 2012

Lake Victoria

               Lake Victoria (Nam Lolwe) is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, by John Hanning Speke, the first European to discover this lake. With a surface area of 68,800 square kilometres (26,600 sq mi), Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest lake by area, and it is the largest tropical lake in the world. Lake Victoria is the world's 2nd largest freshwater lake by surface area; only Lake Superior in North America is larger. 
              The main settlements around Lake Victoria are: Bukoba, Mwanza, Musoma, Kisumu, Kendu Bay, Homa Bay, Kampala, Entebbe, Jinja.

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