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African Water Areas
YGK These African Bodies of Water
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| General length of the Nile River | Approximately 4,132 miles |
| Percentage of Nile flow from the Blue Nile headstream | Over 80% |
| Source of the Blue Nile | Lake Tana (Ethiopia) |
| Meeting point of the Blue and White Nile | Khartoum |
| Dam located at the Nile's first cataract | Aswan High Dam |
| Reservoir formed by the Aswan High Dam | Lake Nasser |
| The second-longest river in Africa | Congo River |
| Principal source of the Upper Congo in the DRC | Lualaba River |
| Section of seven cataracts marking the start of the Congo River proper | Boyoma Falls (Stanley Falls) |
| World capitals located on the Malebo Pool | Kinshasa and Brazzaville |
| Literary work depicting the cruel conditions of the Congo basin | Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) |
| Ocean the Zambezi River enters | Indian Ocean (via Mozambique Channel) |
| Namibian territory created to provide access to the Zambezi | Caprivi Strip |
| African name for Victoria Falls | Mosi-oa-Tunya ("the smoke that thunders") |
| Largest waterfall by flow rate in Africa | Victoria Falls |
| River that flows in a clockwise arc through Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria | Niger River |
| Explorer who mapped the Niger River in the 1790s | Mungo Park |
| Main tributary of the Niger River in Nigeria | Benue River |
| Original name of the Limpopo River at its source | Crocodile (or Krokodil) River |
| This person described the Limpopo as great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees | Rudyard Kipling |
| Terminal destination of the Okavango River | Okavango Delta (inland swamp in the Kalahari Desert) |
| World's second-largest freshwater lake by area | Lake Victoria |
| Nations that share Lake Victoria | Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania |
| Lone outlet of Lake Victoria | Victoria Nile |
| Predatory fish introduced to Lake Victoria in the 1950s | Nile Perch |
| Second-deepest lake in the world | Lake Tanganyika |
| Town where Henry Morton Stanley found David Livingstone | Ujiji (on Lake Tanganyika) |
| Southernmost lake of the Great Rift Valley | Lake Malawi (Lake Nyasa) |
| World's largest man-made lake by surface area | Lake Volta |
| Dam that created Lake Volta | Akosombo Dam |
| African lake whose surface area has shrunk by over 90% since the 1960s | Lake Chad |
| Main water source for Lake Chad | Chari River |
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