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Table 1 Major African freshwater bodies, their characteristics, and neighboring urban centers
(>0.3million people)with estimated populations (in 2020). (a)Major rivers depicted on Fig. 1
(numbered 1–6) are described by the location of river mouth, length, and average discharge.
(b)Major lakesdepictedonFig.1(letteredA-F)aredescribedbythecounties in thebasin, surface
area andwater volume
River(a) Flows through Length
(km) Average
discharge
(m3/s) Major urban centers and
estimatedpopulation size in
2020 (million)a
1 Nile Egypt, Sudan, South
Sudan,Uganda 6,853 2,830 Cairo (20.57),Alexandria
(5.23),Aswan (0.34) (all
Egypt);Khartoum(5.91)
(Sudan); Juba (0.40) (South
Sudan)
2 Niger Guinea,Mali,Niger,
Benin,Nigeria 4,180 5,589 Bamako (3.27) (Mali);
Niamey (1.32) (Niger);
Lokoja (0.66) (Nigeria)
3 Congo DRCongo,Congo 4,700 41,000 Kinshasa (14.12),
Kisangani (1.25),Mban-
daka (0.44) (allDRCongo);
Brazzaville (2.21) (Congo)
4 Zambezi Angola,Zambia,
Zimbabwe,
Mozambique 2,574 3,400 Nourban centers>0.3m
people
5 Limpopo SouthAfrica,
Botswana,Zimbabwe,
Mozambique 1,750 170 Nourban centers>0.3m
people
6 Orange SouthAfrica 2,200 365 Nourban centers>0.3m
people
Lakes(b) Basin countries Surface
area
(km2) Water
volume
(km3) Major urban centers and
estimatedpopulation size in
2020 (million)a
A Nasser Egypt, Sudan 5,250 132 Aswan (0.34) (Egypt)
B Chad Chad,Cameroon,
Niger,Nigeria 1,350 72 N’Djame´na (1.54) (Chad)
C Turkana Kenya,Ethiopia 6,405 203.6 Nourban centers>0.3m
people
D Victoria Tanzania,Uganda,
Kenya 68,800 2,750 Kampala (2.39) (Uganda);
Mwanza (1.12) (Tanzania)
E Tanganyika Burundi,DRCongo,
Tanzania, Zambia 32,900 18,900 Bujumbura (1.01)
(Burundi);Uriva (0.57)
(DRCongo)
F Malawi Malawi,Mozam-
bique,Tanzania 29,600 8,400 Nourban centers>0.3m
people
aSource:UnitedNations,DepartmentofEconomicandSocialAffairs,PopulationDivision(2014)
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Microplastics in InlandAfricanWaters: Presence, Sources, andFate 105
Freshwater Microplastics
Emerging Environmental Contaminants?
- Titel
- Freshwater Microplastics
- Untertitel
- Emerging Environmental Contaminants?
- Autoren
- Martin Wagner
- Scott Lambert
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2018
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-61615-5
- Abmessungen
- 15.5 x 24.1 cm
- Seiten
- 316
- Kategorien
- Naturwissenschaften Chemie