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  2. Lake Victoria - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Category:Lake Victoria - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Entebbe - Wikipedia

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    The town is situated in Wakiso District, approximately 34 kilometres (21 mi) south of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. [7] The metropolis is located on a peninsula into Lake Victoria, covering a total area of 56.2 square kilometres (21.7 sq mi), out of which 20 km 2 (7.7 sq mi) is water.

  5. Bukoba - Wikipedia

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    Bukoba is a city with a population of 144,938 (2022 census), [2] situated in the northwest of Tanzania on the south-western shores of Lake Victoria.It is the capital of the Kagera region, and the administrative seat for Bukoba Urban District.

  6. Buvuma Island - Wikipedia

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    The chain of islands known as Buvuma Islands consists of more than fifty islands and is located a few kilometres off the northern shores of Lake Victoria, Uganda in the Napoleon Gulf. Buvuma is approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi), by water, south of the major city of Jinja , [ 1 ] and around 90 kilometres (56 mi), south-east of the national ...

  7. Kisumu - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Ukerewe Island - Wikipedia

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    Ukerewe Island is located in the Ukerewe District of Mwanza Region in the great lakes area of Tanzania, 45 km (28 mi) north of the city of Mwanza to which it is linked by ferry. [3] A ferry crossing of 3.8 km (2.4 mi) links the island to a dirt road on the eastern lake shore, which runs to Kibara and the city of Musoma in Mara Region .

  9. Migingo Island - Wikipedia

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    The much larger Usingo Island is 200 metres (660 ft) to the east of the small white rectangle that is Migingo, and Pyramid Island, the largest of the three, is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) due south of Migingo and 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) north of the Tanzanian border in Lake Victoria. On detailed maps, all three islands have been shown on the Kenyan ...