🌊 Lake Uniamési

Democratic Republic of the Congo · Africa · 6.00°S, 27.00°E

Lake Uniamési or the Uniamesi Sea was the name given by missionaries in the 1840s and 1850s to a huge lake or inland sea that was supposed to lie within a region of Central East Africa with the same name.

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Quick facts

Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Continent / region	Africa
Surface elevation	unknown
Coordinates (approx.)	6.00°S, 27.00°E · view on map

Lake Uniamési in Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Africa. The full story of this lake is described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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Lake Edward · Lake Albert (Africa) · Lake Kivu · Lake Kisale · Lake Libanda · Lake Mai-Ndombe · Lake Boya · Lake Nzilo · Lake Upemba · Lake Tumba.

Surface elevation from Wikidata. Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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