Kaptai Dam
Kaptai Dam is on the Karnaphuli River at Kaptai, 65 km upstream from Chittagong in Rangamati District, Bangladesh. It is an earth-fill embankment dam with a reservoir with water storage capacity of 6,477 million cubic metres.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Chittagong Hill Tracts
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The Chittagong Hill Tracts, often shortened to simply the Hill Tracts and abbreviated to CHT, includes the three hilly districts within the Chittagong Division in southeastern Bangladesh, bordering India and Myanmar in the east: Khagrachhari, Rangamati, and Bandarban.
Kaptai Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam on the Karnaphuli River at Kaptai in Bangladesh
- Categories: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Kaptai, Kaptai Upazila, Rangamati District, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.49414° or 22° 29′ 39″ northLongitude
92.22546° or 92° 13′ 32″ eastElevation
25 metres (82 feet)Open location code
7MJJF6VG+M5OpenStreetMap ID
way 1042087277OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Ukrainian—“Kaptai Dam” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “কাপ্তাই বাঁধ”
- Cebuano: “Kaptai Dam”
- Chinese: “卡普塔伊大壩”
- Chinese: “卡普泰水坝”
- Chinese: “卡普泰水壩”
- German: “Karnaphulidamm”
- Japanese: “Kaptaiダム”
- Japanese: “カプタイ・ダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karnafuli vannkraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Karnafuli vannkraftverk”
- Persian: “سد کاپتای”
- Polish: “Zapora Kaptai”
- Swedish: “Kaptai Dam”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Карнафулі”
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