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Victoria Nyanza. The black line indicates Stanley's route. Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes.With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km 2 (23,146 sq mi), [6] [7] [page needed] Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, [8] and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. [9]
Mwanza City, also known as Rock City to the residents, [2] is a port city and capital of Mwanza Region on the southern shore of Lake Victoria in north-western Tanzania. With an urban population of 1,104,521 [ 1 ] and a population of 3,699,872 in the region (2022 census), [ 3 ] it is Tanzania's second largest city, after Dar es Salaam .
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Pages in category "Lake Victoria" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total.
Kira Town (22 P) Kisumu (19 P) M. Masaka (6 P) N. Nkozi (3 P) Pages in category "Populated places on Lake Victoria" The following 30 pages are in this category, out ...
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Kisumu (/ k iː ˈ s uː m uː / kee-SOO-moo) [4] is the third-largest city in Kenya [5] located in the Lake Victoria area in the former Nyanza Province. It is the second-largest city after Kampala in the Lake Victoria Basin. The city has a population of slightly over 600,000.
Homa Bay is a town (and eponymous bay) on the south shore of Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, in western Kenya.It lies near Mount Homa (in the Luo language Got Marahuma or God Uma ["famous mountain"]) and Ruma National Park, the latter noted for Jackson's hartebeests and roan antelope (the government has also released reticulated giraffes into the park).
Rusinga Island is marked in the northeast corner of the map within the small portion of Victoria allotted to Kenya. Rusinga Island, with an elongated shape approximately 10 miles (16 km) from end to end and 3 miles (5 km) at its widest point, lies in the eastern part of Lake Victoria at the mouth of the Winam Gulf.