Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza (also known as Ukerewe) is one of the Great Lakes in Africa.

Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza (also known as Ukerewe) is one of the Great Lakes in Africa.

Lake Victoria has an area of ​​68,870 square kilometers, making it the largest lake in Africa, the world's largest tropical lake, and the second largest freshwater lake in the world's surface area. Because the shallow, the lake is included in the order of seven freshwater lakes in the volume, containing 2760 cubic kilometers of water. He is the source of the longest branch of the Nile, White Nile. The lake is located in a plateau in the western Great Rift Valley of Africa and regulated by Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya.
There are over 3,000 islands in Lake Victoria, mostly uninhabited tida. This includes Ssese Islands in Uganda, a large group of islands in the northwest of the lake and became a popular tourist destination.