Lake Tanganyika has a shoreline of 1,828km, almost as long as New York to Miami. The water surface of Lake Tanganyika is 773 m (2,536 ft) above sea level.
Tanganyika is the world's longest freshwater lake, it is 673 km (418 mi) long.
It is also the deepest African lake, its average depth is 570 m and the maximum depth is 1,435 m.
