Lake
Lake Tanganyika
The 5th largest of the 319 lakes measured in this atlas.
surface area 32,900 km² · 5th/319
Wikidata · ranks computed across the features of the same kind in this atlas that carry the measurement
- Surface area
- 32,900 km²
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one. Computed from the Natural Earth outline: ≈ 33,000 km².
- Elevation
- 773 m
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Length
- 673 km
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Width
- 72 km
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Drainage basin
- 231,000 km²
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Wikidata
- Q5511
Among the world's lakes
Each line is every one of the lakes in this atlas that carries the measurement, ordered smallest to largest. The line down the middle is the median; the mark on each line is this one. Deserts are not ranked against lakes — the comparison is always within the same kind.
- Surface area32,900 km²5th of 319 · median 536 km²
- Elevation773 m72nd of 333 · median 278 m
- Length673 km1st of 255 · median 66 km
- Width72 km24th of 221 · median 20 km
- Drainage basin231,000 km²11th of 162 · median 12,298 km²