Mosul Dam
Mosul Dam, formerly known as Saddam Dam, is the largest dam in Iraq. It is located on the Tigris river in the western governorate of Nineveh, upstream of the city of Mosul.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Iraq
- Also known as: “Chambarakat Dam”, “Sadd al Mawsil”, “Sadd al Mawşil”, “Sadd Mawşil”, and “Saddam Dam”
Mosul Dam
- Category: hydroelectric power station
- Location: Tel Afar District, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.62991° or 36° 37′ 48″ northLongitude
42.82377° or 42° 49′ 26″ eastElevation
328 metres (1,076 feet)Open location code
8H84JRHF+XGOpenStreetMap ID
way 1212394743OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Mosul Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد أسكي موصل”
- Arabic: “سد الموصل”
- Arabic: “سد صدام”
- Arabic: “سد موصل”
- Catalan: “presa de Mossul”
- Catalan: “pressa de Sadam”
- Cebuano: “Sadd Şaddām”
- Central Kurdish: “بەنداوی مووسڵ”
- Chinese: “摩苏尔大坝”
- Chinese: “摩蘇爾水壩”
- Czech: “Mosulská přehrada”
- Czech: “Saddámova přehrada”
- Danish: “Mosul-dæmningen”
- Dutch: “Mosoeldam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد الموصل”
- French: “barrage de Mossoul”
- French: “Barrage de Mossoul”
- German: “Mosul-Talsperre”
- Hebrew: “סכר מוסול”
- Indonesian: “Bendungan Mosul”
- Italian: “diga di Mosul”
- Italian: “Diga di Mosul”
- Japanese: “モスル・ダム”
- Japanese: “モスルダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mosuldemningen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mosuldemninga”
- Norwegian: “Mosuldemningen”
- Persian: “سد موصل”
- Spanish: “Presa de Mosul”
- Swedish: “Mosuldammen”
- Swedish: “Sadd Şaddām”
- Turkish: “Musul Barajı”
- Turkish: “Saddam Barajı”
- Ukrainian: “Мосульська гребля”
- Urdu: “موصل ڈیم”
- Uzbek: “Mosul to‘g‘oni”
- Western Panjabi: “موصل ڈیم”
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