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How wide is Lake Tanganyika?

Lake Tanganyika is about 72 km (44.7 mi) wide.

What is measured: maximum width across the lake

Lake Tanganyika (72 km) drawn to scale beside the Golden Gate Bridge (2.74 km) and Mount Everest (8,849 m)
Drawn to scale, from left to right: Golden Gate Bridge (2.74 km), Mount Everest (8,849 m) and Lake Tanganyika (72 km). The drawing zooms out ×21 between its panels; the faint shape at the start of each panel is the largest object of the one before.

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How big is that, really?

  • About 1.7× the length of a marathon
  • About 8.1× the height of Mount Everest
  • About 26× the length of the Golden Gate Bridge
  • About 87× the height of the Burj Khalifa

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Facts about Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika is the world’s second-deepest lake and holds about one-sixth of its unfrozen surface freshwater.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Lake Tanganyika; WWF, Lake Tanganyika

Nature

NameSizeCompared with Lake Tanganyika
Ngorongoro Crater21 km (13 mi)0.29×
Olympus Mons21.9 km (13.6 mi)0.3×
Fish River Canyon27 km (16.8 mi)0.38×
Grand Canyon29 km (18 mi)0.4×
Lake Tanganyika72 km (44.7 mi)this page
Lake Baikal79 km (49.1 mi)1.1×
Bering Strait82 km (51 mi)1.1×
Socotra130 km (80.8 mi)1.8×
Salar de Uyuni150 km (93.2 mi)2.1×
Lake Victoria240 km (149 mi)3.3×

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Which is bigger: Lake Tanganyika or Socotra?

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