What is the second largest river delta in the world?

Background: Okavango Delta, otherwise known as the Okavango Swamp, is formed when water from the Angolan highlands flows onto the Okavango river, reaches a tectonic trough in the central Kalahari Desert, where it empties and evaporates without ever reaching the ocean.



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