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Lake Malawi

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Lake Malawi

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Also known as Lake Nyasa, Lago Niassa, Lake Nyassa

African Great Lake

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Lake Malawi is a body of water with a surface area of 29600 and a perimeter of 1245. It extends 570 in length and 75 in width. The lake has a vertical depth of 704 and a total volume of 8400000. Its elevation above sea level is 474.

The watershed area associated with the lake is 6593. The subject is categorized under the Commons category "Lake Malawi" and has a corresponding Commons gallery with the same name. It is referenced by 985 other encyclopedia articles.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
lake
Part of
Rift Valley lakes
Country
Mozambique
Area
29600
Elevation
474
Shares border with
Chintheche
Image
Canoes on Lake Malawi.jpg
Width
75
Length
570
Perimeter
1245
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topic's main category
Category:Lake Malawi
Commons category
Lake Malawi
outflows
Shire River
Commons gallery
Lake Malawi
vertical depth
704
drainage basin
Zambezi Basin
volume as quantity
8400
watershed area
6593
native label
Lake Malawi
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Encyclopedic overview

Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, (Swahili: Ziwa Nyasa) is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

It is the fourth largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, the ninth largest lake in the world by area and the third largest and second deepest lake in Africa. Lake Malawi is home to more species of fish than any other lake in the world, including at least 700 species of cichlids. The Mozambique portion of the lake was officially declared a reserve by the Government of Mozambique on June 10, 2011, while in Malawi a portion of the lake is included in Lake Malawi National Park.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Malawi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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