Lake

Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria is the third-largest lake in the world, and more than 30 million people rely on it for food, transport and electricity.

Source: science.nasa.gov

Where it is

On the Atlas Quest map, the Lake Victoria label sits at 1.2° S, 33.0° E, in the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres.

Also labelled Nyanza.

Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.

Nearby places

The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:

• Mount Kilimanjaro — about 530 km south-east
• Congo Basin — about 1,300 km west
• Africa — about 1,500 km north-west
• Congo — about 1,600 km west

Play with it

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