Atatürk Dam
The Atatürk Dam, originally the Karababa Dam, is the third largest dam in the world and it is a zoned rock-fill dam with a central core on the Euphrates River on the border of Adıyaman Province and Şanlıurfa Province in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Turkey
- Also known as: “Atatuerk Dam”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Akyazı and Damlıca.
Akyazı
Village
Akyazı is a village in the Adıyaman District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Şikakî tribe and had a population of 154 in 2021. Akyazı is situated 3½ km northwest of Atatürk Dam.
Damlıca
Village
Damlıca is a village in the Adıyaman District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey. The village had a population of 166 in 2021. Damlıca is situated 6 km southwest of Atatürk Dam.
Kızılöz
Village
Kızılöz is a village in the Samsat District of Adıyaman Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Bêzikan tribe and had a population of 77 in 2021. Kızılöz is situated 6 km east of Atatürk Dam.
Atatürk Dam
- Category: hydroelectric power station
- Location: Bozova District, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.48049° or 37° 28′ 50″ northLongitude
38.31764° or 38° 19′ 4″ eastElevation
417 metres (1,368 feet)Open location code
8G9WF8J9+53OpenStreetMap ID
way 45183487OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Atatürk Dam” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Diga Atatürk”
- Arabic: “سد أتاتورك”
- Azerbaijani: “Atatürk SES”
- Azerbaijani: “Atatürk su bəndi”
- Bulgarian: “Ататюрк”
- Catalan: “Presa d’Atatürk”
- Cebuano: “Atatürk Dam”
- Chinese: “阿塔图克坝”
- Chinese: “阿塔图克水库”
- Chinese: “阿塔图尔克大坝”
- Chinese: “阿塔图尔克水电站”
- Chinese: “阿塔圖克壩”
- Chinese: “阿塔圖克水庫”
- Chinese: “阿塔圖爾克水壩”
- Chinese: “阿塔圖爾克水電站”
- Czech: “Atatürkova přehrada”
- Czech: “Atatürkova přehradní nádrž”
- Czech: “přehrada Karababa”
- Dutch: “Ataturkdam”
- Dutch: “Atatürkdam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد اتاتورك”
- French: “Barrage Ataturk”
- French: “barrage Atatürk”
- French: “Barrage Atatürk”
- French: “Barrage d’Ataturk”
- French: “Barrage d’Atatürk”
- French: “Barrage de Ataturk”
- French: “Barrage de Atatürk”
- German: “Atatürk-Staudamm”
- Greek: “Φράγμα Ατατούρκ”
- Greek: “Φράγμα του Ατατούρκ”
- Hebrew: “סכר אטאטורק”
- Hebrew: “סכר אתאטורק”
- Hungarian: “Atatürk Barajı”
- Hungarian: “Atatürk-gát”
- Indonesian: “Bendungan Atatürk”
- Italian: “Diga Atatürk”
- Italian: “diga di Atatürk”
- Italian: “Diga di Atatürk”
- Japanese: “アタチュルクダム”
- Japanese: “アタチュルクダムおよび水力発電所”
- Japanese: “アタテュルク・ダム”
- Kurdish: “Bendava Ataturkê”
- Kurdish: “Bendava Rihayê”
- Malayalam: “അത്താതുർക്ക് അണക്കെട്ട്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ataturk-demningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ataturkdemningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Atatürkdemningen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Atatürkdemningen”
- Norwegian: “Atatürkdemningen”
- Persian: “سد آتاترک”
- Persian: “سد اتاترک”
- Polish: “Zapora Atatürka”
- Portuguese: “Barragem Atatürk”
- Portuguese: “Barragem de Atatürk”
- Portuguese: “Represa Atatürk”
- Russian: “Ататюрк”
- Russian: “Водохранилище им. Ататюрка”
- Russian: “Плотина Ататюрка”
- Slovenian: “jez Atatürk”
- Spanish: “Embalse de Atatürk”
- Spanish: “Presa de Ataturk”
- Spanish: “Presa de Atatürk”
- Turkish: “Atatürk Barajı ve Hidroelektrik Santrali”
- Turkish: “Atatürk Barajı”
- Turkish: “Atatürk HES”
- Ukrainian: “Гребля Ататюрка”
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