what is the largest man made lake in africa?
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With a storage capacity of 124,000,000 acre-feet (153,000,000,000 cubic m) of water, Lake Volta is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. It is about 250 miles (400 km) long and covers 3,283 square miles (8,502 square km), or 3.6 percent of Ghana's area.
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Nguru, town, northwestern Yobe state, northern Nigeria, near the Hadejia River, a seasonal tributary of the Komadugu Yobe River, which flows into Lake Chad.
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The largest man-made lake built by the Army Corps of Engineers in Pennsylvania is Raystown Lake.
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A reservoir is an artificial lake called man-made reservoir. It can be formed by building a dam across a valley, by excavating the land or by surrounding a piece of land with dykes and diverting a part of the river flow into the reservoir.
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Lake Victoria, also called Victoria Nyanza, largest lake in Africa and chief reservoir of the Nile, lying mainly in Tanzania and Uganda but bordering on Kenya. Its area is 26,828 square miles (69,484 square km). Among the freshwater lakes of the world, it is exceeded in size only by Lake Superior in North America.
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The lake now holds 64.3 billion US gallons (243,000,000 m3) of water, covering 17,088 acres (69.15 km2) over a length of 17 miles (27 km) with a width of 1.6 miles (2.6 km) at the widest and 70 miles (113 km) of shoreline, with a maximum depth of 35 feet (11 m).
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The lake is stream-fed but a dam regulates the water reserves, therefore, the lake is classified as semi-natural freshwater lake. ... Phewa lake is located at an altitude of 742 m (2,434 ft) and covers an area of about 4.43 km2 (1.7 sq mi). It has an average depth of about 8.6 m (28 ft) and a maximum depth of 24 m (79 ft).
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Lake Okeechobee is the second largest fresh water lake in the US. The lake covers over 730 square miles and is connected to both of Florida's coasts via the man made Okeechobee Waterway. The Lake is 33 miles wide from north to south, and 30 miles wide from east to west.
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The Nile has a length of about 6,695 kilometers (4,160 miles). Its average discharge is 3.1 million litres (680,000 gallons) per second. The Nile basin is huge and includes parts of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Congo (Kinshasa), Kenya.
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Rutland Water is the largest man-made lake in western Europe.
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List of lakes of Oklahoma. ... All lakes listed are man-made. Oklahoma's only natural lakes are oxbow and playa lakes. Oklahoma has sixty-two oxbow lakes at least 10 acres in size.
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The construction of reservoirs, dams and mines has created some incredible artificial lakes. Here's a few of the most beautiful man-made lagoons around the world.
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The manmade IJsselmeer lake What used to be the Zuiderzee, IJsselmeer is now an 1,100-square-meter lake: the biggest in the whole of Western Europe. The Zuiderzee project also changed the salt water of the Zuiderzee to the freshwater of the now existing lake.
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Based on the NLA 2012, of the total 111,119 lakes assessed, approximately 52% (58,700) were natural and 48% (53,119) were manmade. The NLA found that natural lakes are distributed fairly evenly in size from small to large while most manmade reservoirs are relatively small.
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Vegetation found in the area includes acacias, baobab, desert date, palms, African myrrh, and Indian jujube. Found within the lake itself are aquatic plants such as reeds, Papyrus, ambatch, and water lilies.