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List of lakes of Tanzania

Index List of lakes of Tanzania

Tanzania lies in the African Great Lakes region and boasts over of surface area that is covered by lakes. [1]

44 relations: African Great Lakes, Arusha Region, Babati District, Burigi Game Reserve, East African Rift, Endorheic basin, Geography of Tanzania, Great Rift Valley, Hippopotamus, Jinja, Uganda, Kagera Region, Kenya, Kilimanjaro Region, Lake Ambussel, Lake Babati, Lake Balangida, Lake Burigi, Lake Chala, Lake Chala tilapia, Lake Eyasi, Lake Jipe, Lake Malawi, Lake Manyara, Lake Manyara National Park, Lake Natron, Lake Rukwa, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, Marine Services Company Limited, Mkomazi National Park, Mount Kilimanjaro, MV Liemba, Mwanga District, Nile, Nile crocodile, Ol Doinyo Lengai, Pangani River, Rukwa Valley, Salt lake, Soda lake, Tanzania, Tanzania Ports Authority, Tarangire National Park, Tsavo West National Park.

African Great Lakes

The African Great Lakes (Maziwa Makuu) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.

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Arusha Region

Arusha Region is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions.

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Babati District

Babati Rural District is a district of Manyara Region of Tanzania, East Africa.

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Burigi Game Reserve

The Burigi Game Reserve is found in Tanzania by Lake Burigi.

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East African Rift

The East African Rift (EAR) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa.

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Endorheic basin

An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin or endorreic basin) (from the ἔνδον, éndon, "within" and ῥεῖν, rheîn, "to flow") is a limited drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation.

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Geography of Tanzania

Tanzania comprises many lakes, national parks, and Africa's highest point, Mount Kilimanjaro.

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Great Rift Valley

The Great Rift Valley is a name given to the continuous geographic trench, approximately in length, that runs from Lebanon's Beqaa Valley in Asia to Mozambique in Southeastern Africa.

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Hippopotamus

The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis).

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Jinja, Uganda

Jinja is a town in Uganda, the third-largest economy in the East African Community.

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Kagera Region

Kagera Region is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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Kilimanjaro Region

Kilimanjaro Region is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions with a postcode number 25000.

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Lake Ambussel

Lake Ambussel is a lake on the Lossogonoi Plateau in Tanzania.

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Lake Babati

Lake Babati is a lake in Tanzania known for its population of hippos.

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Lake Balangida

Lake Balangida is a shallow alkaline lake in the Natron-Manyara-Balangida branch of the East African Rift in north-central Tanzania.

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Lake Burigi

Lake Burigi (originally Lueor-lo-Urigi, meaning "White Lake of Urigi") is an endorheic lake in the Karagwe district, Kagera Region of Tanzania.

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Lake Chala

Lake Chala, also known as Lake Challa, is a crater lake that straddles the border between Kenya and Tanzania.

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Lake Chala tilapia

The Lake Chala tilapia (Oreochromis hunteri) is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Chala a crater lake on the border of Kenya and Tanzania.

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Lake Eyasi

Lake Eyasi (formerly Njarasasee, "Njarasa Lake", and Hohenlohesee, "Hohenlohe Lake") is a seasonal shallow endorheic salt lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley at the base of the Serengeti Plateau, just south of the Serengeti National Park and immediately southwest of the Ngorongoro Crater in the Crater Highlands of Tanzania.

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Lake Jipe

Lake Jipe is an inter-territorial lake straddling the borders of Kenya and Tanzania.

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Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

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Lake Manyara

Lake Manyara is a shallow lake in the Natron-Manyara-Balangida branch of the East African Rift in Manyara Region in Tanzania.

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Lake Manyara National Park

Lake Manyara National Park is a Tanzanian national park located both in Arusha Region and Manyara Region, Tanzania.

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Lake Natron

Lake Natron is a salt and soda lake in Arusha Region in northern Tanzania.

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Lake Rukwa

Lake Rukwa is an endorheic lake in the Rukwa Valley of southwestern Tanzania.

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Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake.

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Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria (Nam Lolwe in Luo; Nalubaale in Luganda; Nyanza in Kinyarwanda and some Bantu languages) is one of the African Great Lakes.

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Marine Services Company Limited

Marine Services Company Limited (MSCL) is a Tanzanian company that operates ferries, cargo ships and tankers on three of the African Great Lakes, namely Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa.

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Mkomazi National Park

Mkomazi National Park is located in north eastern Tanzania on the Kenyan border, in Kilimanjaro Region and Tanga Region.

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Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro or just Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, "Kibo", "Mawenzi", and "Shira", is a dormant volcano in Tanzania.

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MV Liemba

MV Liemba, formerly Graf Goetzen or Graf von Goetzen, is a passenger and cargo ferry that runs along the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika.

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Mwanga District

Mwanga is one of the seven districts of the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania.

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Nile

The Nile River (النيل, Egyptian Arabic en-Nīl, Standard Arabic an-Nīl; ⲫⲓⲁⲣⲱ, P(h)iaro; Ancient Egyptian: Ḥ'pī and Jtrw; Biblical Hebrew:, Ha-Ye'or or, Ha-Shiḥor) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, and is commonly regarded as the longest river in the world, though some sources cite the Amazon River as the longest.

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Nile crocodile

The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is an African crocodile, the largest freshwater predator in Africa, and may be considered the second-largest extant reptile and crocodilian in the world, after the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus).

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Ol Doinyo Lengai

Ol Doinyo Lengai, "Mountain of God" in the Maasai language, is an active volcano located in the Gregory Rift, south of Lake Natron within the Arusha Region of Tanzania, Africa.

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Pangani River

The Pangani River (pin-gi'nee) (also called Luffu and Jipe Ruvu, especially in older sources, and probably once called Rhaptus) is a major river of northeastern Tanzania.

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Rukwa Valley

The Rukwa Valley is a valley of southwestern Tanzania, and is a part of the Great Rift Valley.

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Salt lake

A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre).

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Soda lake

A soda lake or alkaline lake is a lake on the strongly alkaline side of neutrality, typically with a pH value between 9 and 12.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Tanzania Ports Authority

Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) is a parastatal public corporation acting under the aegis of the Ministry of Infrastructure Development, that has the responsibility "to manage and operate" the seaports and lake ports of the country of Tanzania.

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Tarangire National Park

Tarangire National Park is the sixth largest national park in Tanzania, it is located in Manyara Region.

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Tsavo West National Park

Tsavo West National Park is located in the Coast Province of Kenya.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_of_Tanzania

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