Answer» Correct Answer - Option 3 : Lake Victoria
The correct answer is Lake Victoria. - Lake Victoria, also called Victoria Nyanza, the largest lake in Africa and the chief reservoir of the Nile, lying mainly in Tanzania and Uganda but bordering on Kenya.
- It is also the third-largest freshwater lake on Earth.
- Nile River:
- The Nile is the longest river in the world and is called the father of African rivers.
- It has a length of about 4,132 miles and drains an area estimated at 1,293,000 square miles.
- It rises south of the Equator and flows northward through northeastern Africa to drain into the Mediterranean Sea.
- The Nile River forms an arcuate delta as it empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
- Deltas with triangular or fan-shape are called arcuate (arc-like) deltas.
- The Nile is formed by three principal streams: the Blue Nile, the Atbara, and the White Nile.
- Drainage countries: - Parts of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Sudan, and the cultivated part of Egypt.
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