Question

Which is the largest lake in Africa?
A) Nyasa
B) Tanganyika
C) Edward
D) Victoria

Answer 1

Hint:
To answer this question, you must recall the African great lakes. They are a series of lakes that constitute the rift valley lakes in the East African rift.

Complete Step by Step Answer:
Lake Victoria is the largest among all the African Great Lakes.
The lake was named by the explorer John Hanning Speke after Queen Victoria, in his reports—the first british to document it. John Hanning Speke accomplished this in 1858, on an expedition accompanied by Richard Francis Burton for locating the source of the Nile River. This expedition was sponsored financially by the Royal Geographic Society in London.
Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake in terms of surface area with a surface area of around 59,947 sq. km (23,146 sq mi), the second-largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area after Lake Superior in North America, and the largest tropical lake in the world. In terms of volume of water occupied, Lake Victoria is the ninth-largest continental lake on the globe, containing approximately 2,424 cubic km of water. The lake has a depth of between 80 and 84 m (262 and 276 ft) and an average depth of 40 m (130 ft).

Thus, the correct answer is D.

Note:
The Great Lakes region also known as the Greater Lakes region consists of countries surrounding the African Great Lakes. It comprises the countries Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda. The region is referred to by the adjective interlacustrine which means between lakes or more specifically, the nations or area bounded by the lakes.