Euphrates Dam
The Euphrates Dam, most commonly known as Tabqa Dam; formerly known as al-Thawra Dam during the Ba'athist era, is an embankment dam on the Euphrates, located 40 kilometres upstream from the city of Raqqa in Raqqa Governorate, Syria.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Syria
- Also known as: “Al Furat dam”, “al-Thawra Dam”, “Sadd al Furat”, “Tabqa Dam”, and “سد الثورة”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tabqa.
Tabqa
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tabqa, formerly Al-Thawrah, is a city in Raqqa Governorate, Syria, approximately 55 kilometres west of Raqqa. Until the 1960s it had been a relatively small settlement. The city had a population of 69,425 as of the 2004 census.
Euphrates Dam
- Categories: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Raqqa Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.87432° or 35° 52′ 28″ northLongitude
38.56649° or 38° 33′ 59″ eastElevation
276 metres (906 feet)Open location code
8G7WVHF8+PHOpenStreetMap ID
way 385584742OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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Satellite Map
Discover Euphrates Dam from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Euphrates Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد الطبقة”
- Arabic: “سد الفرات”
- Armenian: “Էտ-Տաբկա”
- Catalan: “Presa de Tabqa”
- Catalan: “Resclosa de Tabqa”
- Cebuano: “Sadd al Furāt”
- Chinese: “塔布卡水壩”
- Czech: “přehrada Tabka”
- Dutch: “Tabqadam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد الطبقه”
- French: “barrage de l’Euphrate”
- French: “barrage de Tabqa”
- French: “Barrage de Tabqa”
- German: “Tabqa-Talsperre”
- Hebrew: “סכר טבקה”
- Hungarian: “Forradalom-gát”
- Hungarian: “Tabqa-gát”
- Indonesian: “Bendungan Tabqa”
- Italian: “diga di Tabqa”
- Italian: “Diga di Tabqa”
- Japanese: “アッサウラダム”
- Japanese: “タブカ・ダム”
- Korean: “타브카 댐”
- Korean: “타브카댐”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tabaqah-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Tabaqah-demningen”
- Persian: “سد طبقه”
- Polish: “Zapora At-Tabaka”
- Portuguese: “Barragem de Tabqa”
- Romanian: “Barajul Tabqa”
- Russian: “Плотина Табка”
- Slovenian: “jez Tabka”
- Spanish: “Presa de Tabqa”
- Swedish: “Sadd al Furāt”
- Turkish: “Tabka Barajı”
- Turkish: “Tebke Barajı”
- Ukrainian: “Гребля Табка”
- Vietnamese: “Đập Tabqa”
- Western Armenian: “Եփրատ ամբարտակ”
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