Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km (1.965×10. The lake has a shoreline of 7,142 km when digitized at the 1:25,000 level, with islands constituting 3.7% of this length.Victoria Nyanza.Photo: Khanairobi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Victoria
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in east-central Africa
- Neighbors: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
- Category: body of water
- Location: Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-1° or 1° southLongitude
33° eastElevation
1,134 metres (3,720 feet)Open Location Code
6GFM2222+22GeoNames ID
148996Wikidata ID
Q5505Lake Victoria Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Agelmim n Viktorya
- Afrikaans: Victoriameer
- Albanian: Liqeni Viktoria
- Amharic: ቪክቶሪያ ሀይቅ
- Amharic: ናያንዛ ሀይቅ
- Arabic: Danaw Victoria
- Arabic: بحيرة فيكتوريا
- Aragonese: Laco Victoria
- Armenian: Վիկտորիա
- Armenian: Վիկտորիա լիճ
- Assamese: ভিক্টোৰিয়া হ্ৰদ
- Asturian: Llagu Victoria
- Azerbaijani: Viktoriya gölü
- Bashkir: Виктория күле
- Basque: Victoria
- Bavarian: Viktoriasee
- Belarusian: Возера Вікторыя
- Belarusian: Вікторыя
- Bengali: ভিক্টোরিয়া হ্রদ
- Bhojpuri: लेक विक्टोरिया
- Bhojpuri: विक्टोरिया झील
- Bosnian: Viktorijino jezero
- Breton: Lenn Victoria
- Bulgarian: Виктория
- Burmese: ဝိတိုရိယအိုင်
- Catalan: Llac Victòria
- Catalan: llac Victòria
- Central Kurdish: دەریاچەی ڤیکتۆریا
- Central Kurdish: زەریاچەی ڤیکتۆریا
- Chechen: Виктори
- Chinese: Victoria Ô͘
- Chinese: 維多利亞湖
- Chuvash: Виктори
- Chuvash: Виктория
- Cornish: Lynn Victoria
- Crimean Tatar: Viktoriya gölü
- Croatian: Jezero Viktorija
- Croatian: Viktorijino jezero
- Czech: Viktoriino jezero
- Czech: jezero Ukereve
- Czech: jezero Ukerewe
- Danish: Victoriasøen
- Dutch: Victoriameer
- Egyptian Arabic: بحيرة فيكتوريا
- English: Lake Nyanza
- English: Victoria
- English: Victoria Nyanza
- Esperanto: Viktoria lago
- Estonian: Victoria järv
- Faroese: Viktoriavatn
- Fiji Hindi: Lake Victoria
- Finnish: Victorianjärvi
- French: Lac Victoria
- French: lac Victoria
- Galician: Lago Vitoria
- Ganda: Nnalubaale
- Georgian: ვიქტორია
- German: Victoriasee
- German: Viktoriasee
- Greek: Βικτόρια
- Greek: Λίμνη Βικτόρια
- Greek: λίμνη Βικτόρια
- Guarani: Ypa Victoria
- Guianese Creole French: Lak Victoria
- Gujarati: વિક્ટોરિયા તળાવ
- Hebrew: אגם ויקטוריה
- Hindi: विक्टोरिया झील
- Hungarian: Viktória-tó
- Icelandic: Viktoríuvatn
- Ido: Lago Viktoria
- Igbo: Ọdọ Mmiri Victoria
- Iloko: Danaw Victoria
- Indonesian: Danau Victoria
- Interlingua: Laco Victoria
- Irish: Loch Victoria
- Italian: Lago Vittoria
- Italian: lago Vittoria
- Japanese: ヴィクトリア湖
- Javanese: Tlaga Victoria
- Kabiyè: Fikitoriya Kujomuu
- Kabyle: agelmim n Viktorya
- Kannada: ವಿಕ್ಟೋರಿಯಾ ಸರೋವರ
- Kazakh: Виктория көлі
- Kikuyu: Iria rĩa Victoria
- Kinyarwanda: Ikiyaga cya Victoriya
- Kirghiz: Виктория көлү
- Korean: 빅토리아 호
- Korean: 빅토리아호
- Kurdish: Gola Viktoria
- Ladin: Lech Vitoria
- Lao: Danaw Victoria
- Latin: Lacus Victoria
- Latvian: Viktorijas ezers
- Limburgan: Victoriamaer
- Lithuanian: Viktorijos ežeras
- Low German: Victoriasee
- Lower Sorbian: Viktoriaski jazor
- Luxembourgish: Victoriaséi
- Luxembourgish: Viktoriaséi
- Macedonian: Викторија
- Malay: Tasik Victoria
- Malayalam: വിക്ടോറിയ തടാകം
- Marathi: व्हिक्टोरिया सरोवर
- Mazanderani: ویکتوریا دریاچه
- Min Nan Chinese: Victoria Ô͘
- Mingrelian: ვიქტორია
- Mirandese: Lago Bitória
- Mongolian: Викториа нуур
- Mongolian: Виктория нуур
- Moroccan Arabic: ضاية ڤيكطوريا
- Nepali: भिक्टोरिया ताल
- Northern Frisian: Victoriasia
- Norwegian: Victoriasjøen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Victoriasjøen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Victoriasjøen
- Occitan (post 1500): Lac Victòria
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Uictoriamere
- Oromo: Hara Viktooriyaa
- Panjabi: ਵਿਕਟੋਰੀਆ ਝੀਲ
- Persian: دریاچه ویکتوریا
- Piemontese: Lagh Vitòria
- Polish: Jezioro Wiktorii
- Portuguese: Lago Vitória
- Quechua: Ñansa qucha
- Romanian: Lacul Victoria
- Russia Buriat: Виктори нуур
- Russian: Виктория
- Rusyn: Вікторія
- Samogitian: Viktuorėjė (ežers)
- Samogitian: Viktuorėjė
- Scots: Loch Victoria
- Serbian: Викторијино језеро
- Serbo-Croatian: Jezero Viktorija
- Serbo-Croatian: Viktorijino jezero
- Slovak: Viktóriino jazero
- Slovenian: Jezero Ukerewe
- Slovenian: Viktorijino jezero
- Somali: Harta Fiktooriya
- South Azerbaijani: ویکتوریا گؤلو
- South Azerbaijani: ویکتوریا گولو
- Spanish: Lago Victoria
- Spanish: Victoria
- Swahili: Victoria
- Swahili: Ziwa Victoria
- Swedish: Victoriasjön
- Swiss German: Victoriasee
- Tagalog: Lawa ng Victoria
- Tajik: Виктория (кӯл)
- Tajik: Виктория
- Tamil: விக்டோரியா ஏரி
- Tatar: Виктория күле
- Telugu: విక్టోరియా సరస్సు
- Thai: ทะเลสาบวิกตอเรีย
- Tibetan: མཚོ་མོ་ཝེ་ཁེ་ཐོ་རི་ཡ།
- Tosk Albanian: Victoriasee
- Turkish: Victoria Gölü
- Turkmen: Wiktoriýa köli
- Tyap: A̱gba̱ndang Jok Viktoriya
- Udmurt: Виктория
- Ukrainian: Вікторія
- Upper Sorbian: Viktoriaski jězor
- Urdu: جھیل وکٹوریہ
- Uzbek: Viktoriya
- Venetian: Lago Vitoria
- Veps: Viktorii
- Vietnamese: Hồ Victoria
- Waray (Philippines): Danaw Victoria
- Welsh: Llyn Victoria
- Western Frisian: Fiktoariamar
- Western Frisian: Victoriamar
- Western Panjabi: جھیل وکٹوریا
- Western Panjabi: جھیل وکٹوریہ
- Wu Chinese: 維多利亞湖
- Yakut: Виктория (күөл)
- Yakut: Виктория
- Yiddish: וויקטאריע אזערע
- Yue Chinese: 維多利亞湖
- Laghe Vittorie
- Nam Lolwe
- Ukerewe
- Ziwa Viktoria
- ვიქტორიას ტბა
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Lake Victoria. Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.