Salma Dam
The Salma Dam, officially named Afghan-India Friendship Dam, is an embankment dam located on the Hari River in Chishti Sharif District of Herat Province in western Afghanistan.- Dam
- …lies at an elevation of 1,547 metres (5,075 feet)
- Description: hydroelectric and irrigation dam project in Afganistan
- Location
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Latitude
34.33083° or 34° 19′ 51″ north
Longitude
63.82528° or 63° 49′ 31″ east
Open location code
8J658RJG+84
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Salma Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد الصداقة الأفغانية الهندية”
- Cebuano: “Salma Dam”
- Chinese: “阿富汗-印度友誼水壩”
- Chinese: “阿富汗-印度友谊坝”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد الصداقه الافغانيه الهنديه”
- Hebrew: “סכר סלמה”
- Hindi: “सलमा बांध”
- Indonesian: “Bendungan Persahabatan Afganistan-India”
- Italian: “diga di Salma”
- Panjabi: “ਸਲਮਾ ਡੈਮ”
- Persian: “بند سلما”
- Persian: “پروژه بند سلما”
- Pushto: “سلما برېښناکوټ”
- Pushto: “سلما بند”
- Russian: “Салма”
- Russian: “Сальма”
- Swedish: “Salmadammen”
- Tamil: “சல்மா அணை”
- Uzbek: “Salma toʻgʻoni”
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