Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika is one of the Great Lakes of Africa, in the Great Rift Valley. 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.Photo: Orrling, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Felix Dance, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Africa
- Also known as: “Lac Tanganika”, “Tanganyika”, and “Tanganyka Meer”
Photo: Erasmus Kamugisha, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Ntahonsigaye, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lake Tanganyika
- Location: Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Tanganyika” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tanganjika-meer”
- Afrikaans: “Tanganjikameer”
- Albanian: “Liqeni Tanganika”
- Amharic: “ታንጋንዪካ ሀይቅ”
- Arabic: “بحيرة تنجانيقا”
- Aragonese: “Laco Tanganica”
- Armenian: “Տանգանիկա լիճ”
- Armenian: “Տանգանիկա”
- Assamese: “টাংগান্যিকা হ্ৰদ”
- Asturian: “Llagu Tanganica”
- Azerbaijani: “Tanqanika”
- Bashkir: “Танганьика”
- Basque: “Tanganyika”
- Bavarian: “Tanganjikasee”
- Belarusian: “Танганьіка”
- Bengali: “তাংগানিকা হ্রদ”
- Bhojpuri: “टांगानिका झील”
- Bhojpuri: “टैंगानिका झील”
- Bhojpuri: “तांगानिका”
- Bhojpuri: “तान्गान्यीका”
- Bosnian: “Jezero Tanganjika”
- Bosnian: “Tanganjika”
- Breton: “Lenn Tanganyika”
- Bulgarian: “Танганика”
- Burmese: “တန်ဂန်ရီကာအိုင်”
- Catalan: “Llac Tanganyika”
- Central Bikol: “Danaw Tanganyika”
- Central Kurdish: “دەریاچەی 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 Tatar: “Tanganyika gölü”
- Croatian: “Tanganjika”
- Czech: “Tanganika”
- Danish: “Tanganyikasøen”
- Dimli (individual language): “Golê Tanganikayi”
- Dutch: “Tanganyikameer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة تانجانيكا”
- Esperanto: “Tanganjiko”
- Estonian: “Tanganjika järv”
- Fiji Hindi: “Tanganyika Talaab”
- Finnish: “Tanganjikajärvi”
- French: “lac Tanganyika”
- French: “Lac Tanganyika”
- French: “Tanganyika”
- Galician: “Lago Tanganica”
- Georgian: “ტანგანიიკა”
- German: “Tanganjika See”
- German: “Tanganjikasee”
- Greek: “Τανγκανίκα”
- Guarani: “Ypa Tanganíka”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Tanganyika”
- Hebrew: “אגם טנגנייקה”
- Hebrew: “אגם טנגניקה”
- Hindi: “तांगान्यीका झील”
- Hungarian: “Tanganyika-tó”
- Icelandic: “Tanganjika-vatn”
- Icelandic: “Tanganjikavatn”
- Iloko: “Danaw Tanganyika”
- Indonesian: “Danau Tanganyika”
- Interlingua: “Laco Tanganyika”
- Irish: “Loch na Tangainíce”
- Irish: “Loch Tanganyika”
- Italian: “lago Tanganica”
- Italian: “Lago Tanganica”
- Japanese: “タンガニーカ湖”
- Javanese: “Tlaga Tanganyika”
- Kabiyè: “Taŋkanika kujomuu”
- Kannada: “ಟ್ಯಾಂಗನ್ಯೀಕಾ ಸರೋವರ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Tanganyika”
- Kazakh: “Танганьика”
- Kinyarwanda: “Ikiyaga cya Tanganyika”
- Kirghiz: “Танганьика”
- Kongo: “Nzadi Tanganyika”
- Korean: “탕가니카호”
- Kurdish: “Gola Tanganyîka”
- Latin: “Lacus Tanganica”
- Latin: “Lacus Tanganyika”
- Latvian: “Tangaņikas ezers”
- Lezghian: “Танганьика”
- Lingala: “liziba tanganyika”
- Lingala: “Liziba Tanganyika”
- Lingala: “Tanganyika”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Lago Tanganyica”
- Lithuanian: “Tanganika”
- Low German: “Tanganjikasee”
- Luxembourgish: “Tanganikaséi”
- Luxembourgish: “Tanganjikaséi”
- Luxembourgish: “Tanganyikaséi”
- Macedonian: “Тангањика”
- Malagasy: “Farihy Tanganyika”
- Malay: “Tasik Tanganyika”
- Malayalam: “ടാംഗനിക്ക തടാകം”
- Marathi: “टांगानिका सरोवर”
- Mazanderani: “تانگانیکا دریاچه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tanganyika Ô͘”
- Minangkabau: “Danau Tanganyika”
- Mingrelian: “ტანგანიიკა”
- Mirandese: “Lago Tanganica”
- Mongolian: “Танганьика нуур”
- Moroccan Arabic: “الضاية د طانڭانيكا”
- Northern Frisian: “Tanganjikasia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanganyikasjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tanganyikasjøen”
- Norwegian: “Tanganyikasjøen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Tanganyika”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tangangicamere”
- Panjabi: “ਤੰਗਾਨੀਕਾ ਝੀਲ”
- Panjabi: “ਤਙਨੀਕਾ 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”
- Samogitian: “Tanganėka (ežers)”
- Serbian: “Тангањика”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jezero Tanganyika”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tanganjika”
- Sicilian: “Lacu Tanganyika”
- Sindhi: “ٽانگانيڪا ڍنڍ”
- Slovak: “Tanganika”
- Slovenian: “Tanganjiško jezero”
- South Azerbaijani: “تانقانیکا گؤلو”
- South Azerbaijani: “تانقانیکا”
- Spanish: “lago Tanganica”
- Spanish: “Lago Tanganica”
- Swahili: “Tanganyika”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Tanganyika”
- Swedish: “Tanganyikasjön”
- Swiss German: “Tanganjikasee”
- 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”
- Uzbek: “Tanganyika”
- Venetian: “Lago Tangànega”
- Venetian: “Lago Tanganica”
- Veps: “Tanganjik”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Tanganyika”
- Võro: “Tanganjika järv”
- Walloon: “Laetche Tanganica”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Tanganyika”
- Welsh: “Llyn Tanganica”
- Welsh: “Llyn Tanganyika”
- Western Frisian: “Tanganjikamar”
- Western Mari: “Танганьика”
- Western Panjabi: “جھیل ٹانگانیکا”
- Wu Chinese: “坦噶尼喀湖”
- Yakut: “Танганьика күөл”
- Yakut: “Танганьика”
- Yiddish: “טאנגאניקע אזערע”
- Yue Chinese: “坦噶尼喀湖”
- “Laghe Tanganiche”
- “Q5511”
- “Tanganėka”
- “Tanganjika järv”
- “टैंगानिका झील”
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