Kaptai Dam

Kaptai Dam is on the Karnaphuli River at , 65 km upstream from in , Bangladesh. It is an earth-fill embankment dam with a reservoir with water storage capacity of 6,477 million cubic metres.
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  • Dam
  • …lies at an elevation of 25 metres (82 feet)
  • Description: dam on the Karnaphuli River at Kaptai in Bangladesh

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chittagong Hill Tracts.

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Kaptai Dam

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Latitude
22.49414° or 22° 29′ 39″ north
Longitude
92.22546° or 92° 13′ 32″ east
Open location code
7MJJF6VG+M5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1042087277
Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­dam
Geo­Names ID
9383253
Wiki­data ID
Q1734089

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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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