Iraqi Kurdistan
Sulemania Governorate
Dokan District

Dukan Dam

The Dukan Dam is a multi-purpose concrete arch dam in As Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It impounds the , thereby creating .
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  • Type: Dam
  • Description: dam in Iraqi Kurdistan
  • Also known as: “Dokan Dam”, “Dukān Dam”, “Dukhān Dam”, “Sadd Dokan”, “Sadd Dukan”, “Sudd Dukān”, and “بەنداوی دوکان”

Dukan Dam

Latitude
35.95372° or 35° 57′ 13″ north
Longitude
44.95222° or 44° 57′ 8″ east
Elevation
472 metres (1,549 feet)
Height
117 metres (382 feet)
Open location code
8H76XX32+FV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 259023776
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­dam
Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­dam
Geo­Names ID
96951
Wiki­data ID
Q941182
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Dukan Dam” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سد دوكان”
  • Catalan: “Dokan”
  • Catalan: “Presa de Dukan”
  • Cebuano: “Sadd Dūkān”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەنداوی دووکان”
  • Dutch: “Dukandam”
  • French: “barrage de Dokan”
  • French: “Barrage de Dokan”
  • German: “Dukan Staudamm”
  • German: “Dukan-Talsperre”
  • Hungarian: “Dokan Dam”
  • Hungarian: “Dokan gát”
  • Hungarian: “Dokan völgyzárógát”
  • Hungarian: “Dokan-gát”
  • Hungarian: “Dukan gát”
  • Hungarian: “Dukan völgyzárógát”
  • Hungarian: “Dukan-gát”
  • Hungarian: “Dukán-gát”
  • Indonesian: “Bendungan Dukan”
  • Italian: “diga di Dukan”
  • Italian: “Diga di Dukan”
  • Japanese: “ドゥカン・ダム”
  • Kurdish: “Bendava Dûkan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dukan-demningen”
  • Norwegian: “Dukan-demningen”
  • Persian: “سد دوکان”
  • Russian: “ГЭС Дукан”
  • Swedish: “Sadd Dūkān”
  • Ukrainian: “ГЕС Дукан”

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