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Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria is a lake in the of . With an area of ​​68,870 km², Lake Victoria is the largest inland lake in Africa and the second largest freshwater lake in the world.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake in east-central Africa
  • Also known as: “Lake Nyanza”, “Nam Lolwe”, “Ukerewe”, “Victoria”, and “Victoria Nyanza”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Lake Victoria

Latitude of center
-1° or 1° south
Longitude of center
33° east
Elevation
1,134 metres (3,720 feet)
Geo­Names ID
148996
Wiki­data ID
Q5505
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Satellite Map

Discover Lake Victoria from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Victoria” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Victoriameer”
  • Albanian: “Liqeni Viktoria”
  • Amharic: “ቪክቶሪያ ሀይቅ”
  • Amharic: “ናያንዛ ሀይቅ”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة فيكتوريا”
  • Aragonese: “Laco Victoria”
  • Armenian: “Վիկտորիա լիճ”
  • Armenian: “Վիկտորիա”
  • Assamese: “ভিক্টোৰিয়া হ্ৰদ”
  • Asturian: “Llagu Victoria”
  • Azerbaijani: “Viktoriya gölü”
  • Bashkir: “Виктория күле”
  • Basque: “Victoria”
  • Bavarian: “Viktoriasee”
  • Belarusian: “Вікторыя”
  • Belarusian: “Возера Вікторыя”
  • Bengali: “ভিক্টোরিয়া হ্রদ”
  • Bhojpuri: “लेक विक्टोरिया”
  • Bhojpuri: “विक्टोरिया झील”
  • Bosnian: “Viktorijino jezero”
  • Breton: “Lenn Victoria”
  • Bulgarian: “Виктория”
  • Burmese: “ဝိတိုရိယအိုင်”
  • Catalan: “llac Victòria”
  • Catalan: “Llac Victòria”
  • Central Bikol: “Danaw Victoria”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریاچەی ڤیکتۆریا”
  • Chechen: “Виктори”
  • Chinese: “Victoria Ô͘”
  • Chinese: “維多利亞湖”
  • Chuvash: “Виктори”
  • Chuvash: “Виктория”
  • Cornish: “Lynn Victoria”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Viktoriya gölü”
  • Croatian: “Jezero Viktorija”
  • Croatian: “Viktorijino jezero”
  • Czech: “jezero Ukereve”
  • Czech: “jezero Ukerewe”
  • Czech: “Viktoriino jezero”
  • Danish: “Victoriasøen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Golê Victoria”
  • Dutch: “Victoriameer”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة فيكتوريا”
  • Esperanto: “Viktoria lago”
  • Estonian: “Victoria järv”
  • Faroese: “Viktoriavatn”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Victoria Talaab”
  • Finnish: “Victorianjärvi”
  • French: “lac Victoria”
  • French: “Lac Victoria”
  • Galician: “Lago Vitoria”
  • Ganda: “Nnalubaale”
  • Ganda: “Nyanja Nalubaale”
  • Georgian: “ვიქტორია”
  • Georgian: “ვიქტორიას ტბა”
  • German: “Victoriasee”
  • German: “Viktoriasee”
  • Greek: “Βικτόρια”
  • Greek: “λίμνη Βικτόρια”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Βικτόρια”
  • Guarani: “Ypa Victoria”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Lak Victoria”
  • Gujarati: “વિક્ટોરિયા તળાવ”
  • Hebrew: “אגם ויקטוריה”
  • Hindi: “विक्टोरिया झील”
  • Hungarian: “Viktória-tó”
  • Icelandic: “Viktoríuvatn”
  • Ido: “Lago Viktoria”
  • Igbo: “Ọdọ Mmiri Victoria”
  • Iloko: “Danaw Victoria”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Victoria”
  • Interlingua: “Laco Victoria”
  • Irish: “Loch Victoria”
  • Italian: “lago Vittoria”
  • Italian: “Lago Vittoria”
  • Japanese: “ヴィクトリア湖”
  • Javanese: “Tlaga Victoria”
  • Kabiyè: “Fikitoriya Kujomuu”
  • Kabyle: “agelmim n Viktorya”
  • Kabyle: “Agelmim n Viktorya”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಕ್ಟೋರಿಯಾ ಸರೋವರ”
  • Kazakh: “Виктория көлі”
  • Kikuyu: “Iria rĩa Victoria”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ikiyaga cya Victoriya”
  • Kirghiz: “Виктория көлү”
  • Korean: “빅토리아 호”
  • Korean: “빅토리아호”
  • Kurdish: “Gola Viktoria”
  • Ladin: “Lech Vitoria”
  • Latin: “Lacus Victoria”
  • Latvian: “Viktorijas ezers”
  • Limburgan: “Victoriamaer”
  • Lithuanian: “Viktorijos ežeras”
  • Low German: “Victoriasee”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Viktoriaski jazor”
  • Luxembourgish: “Victoriaséi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Viktoriaséi”
  • Macedonian: “Викторија”
  • Malay: “Tasik Victoria”
  • Malayalam: “വിക്ടോറിയ തടാകം”
  • Marathi: “व्हिक्टोरिया सरोवर”
  • Mazanderani: “ویکتوریا دریاچه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Victoria Ô͘”
  • Mingrelian: “ვიქტორია”
  • Mirandese: “Lago Bitória”
  • Mongolian: “Викториа нуур”
  • Mongolian: “Виктория нуур”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ضاية ڤيكطوريا”
  • Nepali: “भिक्टोरिया ताल”
  • Newari: “भिक्टोरिया पुखू”
  • Northern Frisian: “Victoriasia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Victoriasjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Victoriasjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Victoriasjøen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Victòria”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Uictoriamere”
  • Oromo: “Hara Viktooriyaa”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਿਕਟੋਰੀਆ ਝੀਲ”
  • Persian: “دریاچه ویکتوریا”
  • Piemontese: “Lagh Vitòria”
  • Polish: “Jezioro Wiktorii”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Vitória”
  • Quechua: “Ñansa qucha”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Victoria”
  • Russia Buriat: “Виктори нуур”
  • Russian: “Виктория”
  • Rusyn: “Вікторія”
  • Samogitian: “Viktuorėjė (ežers)”
  • Samogitian: “Viktuorėjė”
  • Scots: “Loch Victoria”
  • Serbian: “Viktorijino jezero”
  • Serbian: “Викторијино језеро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jezero Viktorija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Viktorijino jezero”
  • Sindhi: “وڪٽوريا ڍنڍ”
  • Slovak: “Viktóriino jazero”
  • Slovenian: “Jezero Ukerewe”
  • Slovenian: “Viktorijino jezero”
  • Somali: “Harta Fiktooriya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویکتوریا گؤلو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویکتوریا گولو”
  • Spanish: “Lago Victoria”
  • Spanish: “Victoria”
  • Swahili: “Victoria”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Victoria”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Viktoria”
  • Swedish: “Victoriasjön”
  • Swiss German: “Victoriasee”
  • Tagalog: “Lawa ng Victoria”
  • Tajik: “Виктория (кӯл)”
  • Tajik: “Виктория”
  • Tamil: “விக்டோரியா ஏரி”
  • Tatar: “Виктория күле”
  • Telugu: “విక్టోరియా సరస్సు”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบวิกตอเรีย”
  • Tibetan: “མཚོ་མོ་ཝེ་ཁེ་ཐོ་རི་ཡ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Victoriasee”
  • Turkish: “Victoria Gölü”
  • Turkmen: “Wiktoriýa köli”
  • Tyap: “A̱gba̱ndang Jok Viktoriya”
  • Udmurt: “Виктория”
  • Ukrainian: “Вікторія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Viktoriaski jězor”
  • Urdu: “جھیل وکٹوریہ”
  • Uzbek: “Viktoriya”
  • Venetian: “Lago Vitoria”
  • Veps: “Viktorii”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Victoria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Victoria”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Victoria”
  • Western Frisian: “Fiktoariamar”
  • Western Frisian: “Victoriamar”
  • Western Panjabi: “جھیل وکٹوریا”
  • Western Panjabi: “جھیل وکٹوریہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “維多利亞湖”
  • Yakut: “Виктория (күөл)”
  • Yakut: “Виктория”
  • Yiddish: “וויקטאריע אזערע”
  • Yue Chinese: “維多利亞湖”
  • “Laghe Vittorie”
  • “telo suli Witowija”
  • “Viktuorėjė”
  • “विक्टोरिया झील”

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