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Lake Tanganyika eastern Shore in Kagongo Ward, Kigoma Region, Tanzania. Lake Tanganyika (/ ˌ t æ ŋ ɡ ə n ˈ j iː k ə,-ɡ æ n-/ TANG-gən-YEE-kə, -gan-; [4] Kirundi: Ikiyaga ca Tanganyika) is an African Great Lake. [5] It is the second-largest freshwater lake by volume and the second deepest, in both cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia.
Lake albar; Lake Albert (Lake Mobutu Sese Seko); Lake Ambale; Lake Balukila; Lake Batuli; Lake Benaît; Lake Bita; Lake Boya; Lake Delcommune (Lake Nzilo); Lake Dikolongo; Lake Édouard (Lake Idi Amin)
The economies of the Great Lakes region states have different structures and are at various stages of development. The GDP real growth rate ranges from 1.8 percent in Burundi [8] to 4.4 in the DRC. [9] GDP per capita fluctuates between $600 in DRC [10] and Burundi and $800 in Uganda. [11]
Currently, there are 44 landlocked countries, two of them doubly landlocked (Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan), and three landlocked de facto states in the world. Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country, Kyrgyzstan is the furthest landlocked country from any ocean, while Ethiopia is the world's most populous landlocked country. [1] [2]
The country's core region is the central Congo Basin. [1] Having an average elevation of about 44 metres (144 ft), it measures roughly 800,000 square kilometres (310,000 sq mi), constituting about a third of the DRC's territory. [1] Much of the forest within the basin is swamp, and still more of it consists of a mixture of marshes and firm land ...
The DRC is the second-largest diamond-producing nation in the world, [c] and artisanal and small-scale miners account for most of its production. At independence in 1960, DRC was the second-most-industrialized country in Africa after South Africa; it boasted a thriving mining sector and a relatively productive agriculture sector. [210]
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At 70 km (43 mi) in length and with an area of 340 km 2 (131 sq mi), it is the second-largest lake island in Africa and the tenth largest in the world. [ a ] Idjwi is roughly equidistant between the Congo and Rwanda , with 10 to 15 kilometres (6 to 9 mi) separating its western shore from the DRC mainland and a similar distance between its ...