Pong Dam
The Pong Dam, also known as the Beas Dam, is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Beas River in Khatiyar, Kangra district in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India, just upstream of Talwara.- Type: Dam
- Description: embankment dam
- Also known as: “Maharana Pratap Sagar”, “Pratap Sagar-demningen”, and “Pratapsagar-demningen”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Talwara.
Talwara
Town
Talwara is a city, just 58 km from Hoshiarpur city… Talwara is situated 7 km southwest of Pong Dam.
Pong Dam
- Category: embankment dam
- Location: Fatehpur, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.97093° or 31° 58′ 15″ north
Longitude
75.94613° or 75° 56′ 46″ east
Open location code
8J3QXWCW+9F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Pong Dam” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “পং বাঁধ”
- German: “Pong-Talsperre”
- Japanese: “ポングダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pong-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Pong-demningen”
- Panjabi: “ਪੌਂਗ ਡੈਮ”
- Polish: “Zapora Pong”
- Swahili: “Bwawa la Pong”
- Western Panjabi: “پونگ ڈیم”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Pong Power House and Shahneher.
Nearby Places
Places to explore: Pong and Shahneher Barrage.
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