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Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika
is an
African Great Lake
. It is estimated to be the
second largest freshwater lake
in the world by volume, and the
second deepest
, in both cases, after only
Lake Baikal
in
Siberia
; it is also the world's longest freshwater lake. The lake is divided among four countries –
Tanzania
,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC),
Burundi
, and
Zambia
, with Tanzania (46%) and DRC (40%) possessing the majority of the lake. The water flows into the
Congo River
system and ultimately into the
Atlantic Ocean
.
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