Yeywa Dam

The Yeywa Hydropower Station, located on the , 52 kilometres southeast of city, at Yeywa village in , in central , is the country's first roller-compacted concrete dam, and the site of a 790-megawatt hydroelectric power plant, the largest in the country.
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Yeywa Dam

Latitude
21.68889° or 21° 41′ 20″ north
Longitude
96.42139° or 96° 25′ 17″ east
Elevation
299 feet (91 metres)
Open location code
7MHRMCQC+HH
Geo­Names ID
10628603
Wiki­data ID
Q3473470
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In Other Languages

From Burmese to Ukrainian—“Yeywa Dam” goes by many names.
  • Burmese: ရဲရွာ တာတ မံ
  • Burmese: ရဲရွာ တာတမံ
  • Chinese: 耶涯大坝
  • Egyptian Arabic: سد ييوا
  • French: barrage de Yeywa
  • French: Barrage de Yeywa
  • German: Talsperre Yeywa
  • Italian: diga di Yeywa
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Yeywa-demningen
  • Norwegian: Yeywa-demningen
  • Persian: سد یاوا
  • Swedish: Yeywa Dam
  • Ukrainian: ГЕС Yeywa

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