Darbandikhan Dam
The Darbandikhan Dam is a multi-purpose embankment dam on the Diyala River in northern Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq. It was constructed between 1956 and 1961.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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Darbandikhan
Town
Darbandikhan is a town in the Governorate of Sulaimaniyah in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is situated within the area of autonomy for the Kurdistan region of Iraq, inhabited by the majority of the Kurds.
Darbandikhan Dam
- Type: Power station
- Description: dam in Darbandikhan, Iraqi Kurdistan
- Categories: embankment dam, water reservoir, and industry
- Location: Khanaqin District, Diyala Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.1114° or 35° 6′ 41″ northLongitude
45.70487° or 45° 42′ 18″ eastOpen location code
8H774P63+HWOpenStreetMap ID
way 309596920OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q2261799
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Darbandikhan Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد دربندخان”
- Arabic: “سد دربندي خان”
- Cebuano: “Sadd Darbandikhan”
- Central Kurdish: “بەنداوی دەربەندیخان”
- Dutch: “Darbandikhan Dam”
- French: “Barrage de Darbandikhan”
- French: “Barrage de Derbendi Khan”
- French: “Barrage de Derbendikan”
- French: “barrage de Derbendikhan”
- German: “Darbandichan-Talsperre”
- Hebrew: “סכר דרבנדח’אן”
- Indonesian: “Bendungan Darbandikhan”
- Italian: “diga di Darbandikhan”
- Italian: “Diga di Darbandikhan”
- Japanese: “ダーバンディハンダム”
- Kurdish: “Bendava Derbendîxanê”
- Persian: “سد دربندیخان”
- Russian: “ГЭС Дербандикхан”
- Russian: “Дербандикхан”
- Spanish: “Presa de Darbandikhan”
- Swedish: “Sadd Darbandikhan”
- Turkish: “Derbendihan Barajı”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Дербандікхан”
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