Karun-3 Dam
The Karun-3 dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Karun river located in the province of Khuzestan, Iran. It was built to help meet Iran's energy demands as well as provide seasonal flood control.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Iran
- Also known as: “Mahall-e Ehdas-e Sadd-e Karun” and “Maḩall-e Eḩdās̄-e Sadd-e Kārūn”
Karun-3 Dam
- Categories: arch dam and concrete dam
- Location: Khuzestan, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Karun-3 Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد قارون-٣”
- Arabic: “سد قارون-3”
- Arabic: “سد كارون-٣”
- Arabic: “سد كارون-3”
- Cebuano: “Ţarḩ-e Sadd-e Kārūn”
- Chinese: “卡伦3号水电站”
- Chinese: “卡伦三号坝”
- Chinese: “卡伦河三号大坝”
- Chinese: “卡倫-3水壩”
- Chinese: “卡倫3號水電站”
- Chinese: “卡倫三號壩”
- Croatian: “Karun-3”
- French: “barrage de Karun-3”
- French: “Barrage de karun-3”
- French: “Barrage de Karun-3”
- German: “Karun-3”
- Hebrew: “סכר כארון-3”
- Indonesian: “Bendungan Karun-3”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karun 3-demningen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karun-3-demninga”
- Norwegian: “Karun 3-demningen”
- Persian: “سد کارون 3”
- Persian: “سد کارون ۳”
- Persian: “طرح سد کارون”
- Persian: “کارون ۳”
- Persian: “کارون 3”
- Persian: “محل احداث سد کارون”
- Russian: “ГЭС Карун-3”
- Russian: “Карун-3”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karun-3”
- Spanish: “Embalse de Karún-3”
- Swedish: “Ţarḩ-e Sadd-e Kārūn”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Карун-3”
- Ukrainian: “Карун-3 (ГЕС)”
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