Yeywa Dam
The Yeywa Hydropower Station, located on the Myitnge River, 52 kilometres southeast of Mandalay city, at Yeywa village in Kyaukse Township, Mandalay Region in central Myanmar, is the country's first roller-compacted concrete dam, and the site of a 790-megawatt hydroelectric power plant, the largest in the country.
Yeywa Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Myanmar
- Category: hydroelectric power station
- Location: Mandalay Region, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
21.6744° or 21° 40′ 28″ north
Longitude
96.47389° or 96° 28′ 26″ east
Open location code
7MHRMFFF+QH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
Wikidata ID
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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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