Lake
lowest point: unnamed location near Lake Tiberias -200 m highest point: Mount Hermon 2,814 m
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Lake
... Kilimanjaro is highest point in Africa; bordered by three of the largest lakes on the continent: Lake Victoria (the world's second-largest freshwater lake) in the north, Lake Tanganyika (the world ...
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Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, and Lake Nyasa principal avenues of commerce with neighboring countries; rivers not navigable (2007)
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Lake
... the Democratic Republic of the Congo, despite the international community's efforts at repatriation; disputes with Malawi over the boundary in Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) and the meandering Songwe River remain dormant
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Pitch Lake, on Trinidad's southwestern coast, is the world's largest natural reservoir of asphalt
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severe earthquakes, especially in northern Turkey, along an arc extending from the Sea of Marmara to Lake Van
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lowest point: Vpadina Akchanaya -81 m; note - Sarygamysh Koli is a lake in northern Turkmenistan with a water level that fluctuates above and below the elevation of Vpadina Akchanaya (the lake has ...
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draining of wetlands for agricultural use; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; water hyacinth infestation in Lake Victoria; widespread poaching
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Lake
on Lake Victoria, 200 km on Lake Albert, Lake Kyoga, and parts of Albert Nile (2008)
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... concentrations of chemical pesticides and natural salts; these substances are then blown from the increasingly exposed lake bed and contribute to desertification; water pollution from industrial wastes and the heavy use of ...
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Lake
7,100 km note: Orinoco River (400 km) and Lake de Maracaibo navigable by oceangoing vessels (2008)
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Lake
2,250 km (includes Lake Tanganyika and the Zambezi and Luapula rivers) (2008)
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Lake
on Lake Kariba (2008)
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lakes
landlocked; glacial scouring accounts for the flatness of Belarusian terrain and for its 11,000 lakes
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lakes
consists of about 138 coral islands and islets with ample rainfall, but no rivers or freshwater lakes; some land was leased by US Government from 1941 to 1995
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Lakes
... since the 1960s, when the boundary was delimited; cross-border conflicts among Tutsi, Hutu, other ethnic groups, associated political rebels, armed gangs, and various government forces persist in the Great Lakes region
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lakes
air pollution and resulting acid rain severely affecting lakes and damaging forests; metal smelting, coal-burning utilities, and vehicle emissions impacting on agricultural and forest productivity; ocean waters becoming contaminated due to ...
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