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The Lake Volta is a man-made lake. Created after the River Volta was dammed at the Akosombo gorge.

Lake Volta from space....

The lake is in Ghana and is the biggest in the world but the forth biggest by water volume.

The lake was formed by the Akosombo Dam, which began in 1961 and completed in 1965.

Because of the formation of Lake Volta, about 78,000 people were forced to move to new towns and villages, along with 200,000 animals belonging to them. About 120

buildings were destroyed.

It has a storage space of 124,000,000 acre-feet of water, Lake Volta It is about 250 miles (400 km) long and covers 3,283 square miles (8,502 square km), or 3.6 percent of Ghana's area....

All i can say is damnn!! lool x :P leaning bout it in humanities so i should know....

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