Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika is one of the Great Lakes of Africa. It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, in both cases, after only Lake Baikal in Siberia; it is also the world's longest freshwater lake.
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Lake Tanganyika
Latitude of center -6° or 6° south | Longitude of center 29.5° or 29° 30' east |
Elevation 767 metres (2,516 feet) | GeoNames ID 175122 |
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Tanganjika-meer
- Afrikaans: Tanganjikameer
- Albanian: Liqeni Tanganika
- Amharic: ታንጋንዪካ ሀይቅ
- Arabic: Danaw Tanganyika
- Arabic: بحيرة تنجانيقا
- Aragonese: Laco Tanganica
- Armenian: Տանգանիկա
- Armenian: Տանգանիկա լիճ
- Assamese: টাংগান্যিকা হ্ৰদ
- Asturian; Bable: Llagu Tanganica
- Azerbaijani: Tanqanika
- Bashkir: Танганьика
- Basque: Tanganyika
- Bavarian: Tanganjikasee
- Belarusian: Возера Танганьіка
- Belarusian: Танганьіка
- Bengali: টাংগানিকা হ্রদ
- Bhojpuri: टैंगानिका झील
- Bihari : टैंगानिका झील
- Bosnian: Jezero Tanganjika
- Bosnian: Tanganjika
- Breton: Lenn Tanganyika
- Bulgarian: Танганика
- Burmese: တန်ဂန်ရီကာအိုင်
- Catalan: Llac Tanganyika
- Central Kurdish: زەریاچەی تانگانیکا
- Chechen: Танганьика
- Chinese: Tanganyika Ô͘
- Chinese: 坦噶尼喀湖
- Chinese: 坦干依喀湖
- Chuvash: Танганьика
- Cornish: Lynn Tanganyika
- Corsican: Lavu Tanganica
- Crimean Turkish; Crimean Tatar: Tanganyika gölü
- Croatian: Tanganjika
- Czech: Tanganika
- Danish: Tanganyikasøen
- Dutch: Tanganyikameer
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: بحيرة تانجانيكا
- English, Old (ca.450-1100): Tangangicamere
- Esperanto: Tanganjiko
- Estonian: Tanganjika järv
- Fijian Hindustani: Lake Tanganyika
- Finnish: Tanganjikajärvi
- French: Lac Tanganyika
- French: lac Tanganyika
- Frisian: Tanganjikamar
- Gallegan: Lago Tanganica
- Georgian: ტანგანიიკა
- German: Tanganjika See
- German: Tanganjikasee
- Greek: Τανγκανίκα
- Hebrew: אגם טנגנייקה
- Hebrew: אגם טנגניקה
- Hindi: तांगान्यीका झील
- Hungarian: Tanganyika-tó
- Icelandic: Tanganjikavatn
- Iloko: Danaw Tanganyika
- Indonesian: Danau Tanganyika
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Laco Tanganyika
- Irish: Loch Tanganyika
- Italian: lago Tanganica
- Japanese: タンガニーカ湖
- Javanese: Tlaga Tanganyika
- Kabiyé: Taŋkanika kujomuu
- Kannada: ಟ್ಯಾಂಗನ್ಯೀಕಾ ಸರೋವರ
- Kazakh: Танганьика
- Kirghiz: Танганьика
- Korean: 탕가니카호
- Kurdish: Gola Tanganyîka
- Lao: Danaw Tanganyika
- Latin: Lacus Tanganica
- Latin: Lacus Tanganyika
- Latvian: Tangaņikas ezers
- Lezghian: Танганьика
- Lingala: Tanganyika
- Lithuanian: Tanganika
- Macedonian: Тангањика
- Malagasy: Farihy Tanganyika
- Malay (generic): Tasik Tanganyika
- Malayalam: ടാംഗനിക്ക തടാകം
- Marathi: टांगानिका सरोवर
- Mazanderani: تانگانیکا دریاچه
- Min Nan Chinese: Tanganyika Ô͘
- Mingrelian: ტანგანიიკა
- Mirandese: Lago Tanganica
- Mongolian: Танганьика нуур
- Moroccan Spoken Arabic: الضاية د طانڭانيكا
- Northern Frisian: Tanganjikasia
- Norwegian: Tanganyikasjøen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Tanganyikasjøen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Tanganyikasjøen
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Lac Tanganyika
- Panjabi: ਤਙਨੀਕਾ ਝੀਲ
- Panjabi: ਤੰਗਾਨੀਕਾ ਝੀਲ
- Persian: دریاچه تانگانیکا
- Piemontese: Lagh Tanganica
- Polish: Tanganika
- Portuguese: Lago Tanganica
- Quechua: Tanganika qucha
- Romanian: Lacul Tanganyika
- Rundi: Tanganyika
- Russia Buriat: Танганьика
- Russian: Танганьика
- Rusyn: Танґаніка
- Schwyzerdütsch: Tanganjikasee
- Serbian: Тангањика
- Serbo-Croatian: Jezero Tanganyika
- Serbo-Croatian: Tanganjika
- Sicilian: Lacu Tanganyika
- Slovak: Tanganika
- Slovenian: Tanganjiško jezero
- South Azerbaijani: تانقانیکا
- Spanish: Lago Tanganica
- Spanish: lago Tanganica
- Swahili (generic): Tanganyika
- Swedish: Tanganyikasjön
- Tagalog: Lawa ng Tanganyika
- Tamil: தங்கனீக்கா ஏரி
- Tatar: Танганьика
- Thai: ทะเลสาบแทนกันยีกา
- Tosk Albanian: Tanganjikasee
- Turkish: Tanganika Gölü
- Turkmen: Tanganika
- Udmurt: Танганьика
- Ukrainian: Танганьїка
- Urdu: جھیل ٹانگانیکا
- Uzbek: Tanganika
- Venetian: Lago Tanganica
- Venetian: Lago Tangànega
- Veps: Tanganjik
- Vietnamese: Hồ Tanganyika
- Walloon: Laetche Tanganica
- Waray (Philippines): Danaw Tanganyika
- Welsh: Llyn Tanganica
- Welsh: Llyn Tanganyika
- Western Mari: Танганьика
- Western Panjabi: جھیل ٹانگانیکا
- Wu Chinese: 坦噶尼喀湖
- Yakut: Танганьика күөл
- Yiddish: טאנגאניקע אזערע
- Yue Chinese: 坦噶尼喀湖
- Lac Tanganika
- Lac Tanganyka
- Laghe Tanganiche
- Lago Tanganyica
- Tanganyka Meer
- Tanganėka (ežers)
- Tanganėka
- دەریاچەی تانگانیکا
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