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Lake Tanganyika is the longest freshwater lake in the world
Stretching 673 kilometres through the East African Rift, Lake Tanganyika is shared by four nations.
Lake Tanganyika is also the second deepest freshwater lake in the world at 1,470 metres, surpassed only by Lake Baikal. It holds roughly sixteen per cent of Earth's available surface fresh water. The lake supports extraordinary biodiversity, including hundreds of cichlid fish species found nowhere else.
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Lake Tanganyika is the longest freshwater lake in the world: the short answers
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- Stretching 673 kilometres through the East African Rift, Lake Tanganyika is shared by four nations. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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