Tarbela Dam
Tarbela Dam is an earth-filled dam on the Indus River in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It is mainly located in Haripur Tehsil. The dam lies in the vicinity of the town of Topi, 105 km northwest of Islamabad and 125 km east of Peshawar.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Also known as: “President Ayub Khan Dam”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gandaf.
Gandaf
Village
Photo: Muhammadilyas438, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gandaf is a town and Union Council of Swabi District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at 34°7'0N 72°41'0E with an altitude of 538 metres. Gandaf is situated 3½ km north of Tarbela Dam.
Tarbela Dam
- Categories: earth-fill dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Swabi District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Tarbela Dam” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “তারবেলা বাঁধ”
- Bulgarian: “Тарбела”
- Bulgarian: “Язовир Тарбела”
- Cebuano: “Tarbela Dam”
- Chinese: “塔貝拉壩”
- Chinese: “塔貝拉大壩”
- Chinese: “塔贝拉大坝”
- Czech: “Vodní nádrž Tarbela”
- Dutch: “Tarbela Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد تاربيلا”
- Esperanto: “Tarbela Akvobaraĵo”
- French: “barrage de Tarbela”
- French: “Barrage de Tarbela”
- German: “Tarbela-Staudamm”
- German: “Tarbela-Talsperre”
- Hebrew: “סכר טרבלה”
- Italian: “diga di Tarbela”
- Italian: “Diga di Tarbela”
- Japanese: “ターベラ・ダム”
- Japanese: “タルベラ・ダム”
- Korean: “타르벨라댐”
- Malayalam: “ടാർബല അണക്കെട്ട്”
- Marathi: “तरबेला धरण”
- Mazanderani: “تربیلا بند”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarbela-demningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarbelademningen”
- Norwegian: “Tarbela-demningen”
- Persian: “سد تاربلا”
- Persian: “سد تربیلا”
- Polish: “Zapora Tarbela”
- Portuguese: “Represa de Tarbela”
- Russian: “Дамба Тарбела”
- Sindhi: “تربيلا ڊيم”
- Spanish: “Embalse de Tarbela”
- Spanish: “Pantano de Tarbela”
- Spanish: “Presa de Tarbela”
- Spanish: “Presa y embalse de Tarbela”
- Spanish: “Presa y pantano de Tarbela”
- Swedish: “Tarbela”
- Tamil: “டார்பெலா அணை”
- Telugu: “తర్బేల ఆనకట్ట”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Тарбела”
- Urdu: “تربیلا بند”
- Urdu: “تربیلا ڈیم”
- Urdu: “تربیلہ بند”
- Vietnamese: “Đập Tarbela”
- Western Panjabi: “تربیلا ڈیم”
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