evidence: The shores of Lake Victoria hug Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, Africa. It stands as the world’s largest tropical lake and the world’s second largest freshwater lake. Its immense waters are known in Africa as Victoria Nyanza. From north to south, Lake Victoria stretches 210 miles or 337 kilometers, and it is 150 miles or 240 miles wide. Its shoreline is 2,000 miles or 3,220 kilometers long. Researchers believe that Lake Victoria formed over 400,000 years ago. Lake Victoria is home to numerous animals including the hippopotamus, sitatunga, bohor reedbuck, African clawless otter, marsh mongoose, cane rats, giant otter shrew, defassa waterbuck, spotted-necked otter, Nile crocodiles, helmeted turtles, and mud turtles. In the past, over 500 species of fish swam in Lake Victoria, but that population has reduced by 50% to 80% depending on which information you source. [...] Lake Victoria is the world’s biggest tropical lake in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. It is the biggest lake in the African Great Lakes region. It provides enormous economic resources and its fishery produces one-million tons of fish per year, which employs 200,000 people who support four-million people. Lake Victoria is home to about 40-million people.