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Lake Albert

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Area
6K km²
Coordinates
1.7000, 30.9000
Category
lakes

Overview

Albert Nile source - a Rift Valley lake on the Uganda-DR Congo border.

About

Lake Albert, originally known as Lake Mwitanzige by the Banyoro, Nam Ovoyo Bonyo by the Alur, and temporarily as Lake Mobutu Sese Seko, is a lake located in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is Africa's sixth-largest lake and the second biggest of Uganda's Great Lakes.

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Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Lake Albert (Africa), available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read full article