Bakun Dam
The Bakun Dam is an embankment dam located in Belaga District, Kapit Division, Sarawak, Malaysia, on the Balui River, a tributary or source of the Rajang River and some sixty kilometres east of Belaga.Photo: Mohamad Shoox, CC BY 2.0.
Bakun Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: embankment dam
- Categories: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Belaga District, Sarawak, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
2.76225° or 2° 45′ 44″ northLongitude
114.05531° or 114° 3′ 19″ eastOpen location code
6PJPQ364+V4OpenStreetMap ID
way 421591835OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damWikidata ID
Q804548
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Bakun Dam” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “峇貢水壩”
- Chinese: “峇贡水电站”
- Chinese: “巴貢水壩”
- Chinese: “巴贡水坝”
- Chinese: “巴贡水电站”
- Dutch: “Bakun Dam”
- French: “barrage de Bakun”
- French: “Barrage de Bakun”
- German: “Bakun-Talsperre”
- German: “Bakun”
- Indonesian: “Bendungan bakun”
- Indonesian: “Bendungan Bakun”
- Italian: “Diga Bakun”
- Japanese: “バクンダム”
- Lithuanian: “Bakuno hidroelektrinė”
- Lithuanian: “Bakuno užtvanka”
- Malay: “Empangan Bakun”
- Malay: “Empangan hidroelektrik Bakun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bakun-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Bakun-demningen”
- Tamil: “பக்குன் அணை”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Бакун”
- Yue Chinese: “巴貢水壩”
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