New Asyut Barrage
The Assiut Barrage is a dam on the Nile River in the city of Assiut in Upper Egypt. It was completed in 1903.Photo: MontyofEgypt, Public domain.
Photo: MontyofEgypt, Public domain.
- Type: Power station
- Description: dam in Egypt
- Also known as: “Assiut Barrage” and “Qanāţir Asyūţ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Assiut and Abnub.
Assiut
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Assiut is in Egypt. Like a piece of Heaven between Al-Minia to the north and Souhag to the south, Assiut twinkles in the heart of Egypt thanks to its middle location among the Egyptian governorates.
Abnub
Town
Abnub is a city in Egypt. It is located on the east bank of the Nile, in the Asyut Governorate, several kilometres northwest of Asyut. As of the 2023 census, the population was 118,843. Abnub is situated 8 km northwest of New Asyut Barrage.
New Asyut Barrage
- Categories: dam, run-of-river hydroelectric power station, and industry
- Location: Asyut Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.20623° or 27° 12′ 22″ northLongitude
31.18836° or 31° 11′ 18″ eastOperator
Ministry of IrrigationOpen location code
7GVH654Q+F8OpenStreetMap ID
way 601415713OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q4809094
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“New Asyut Barrage” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد أسيوط الجديد”
- Arabic: “قناطر أسيوط”
- Cebuano: “Qanāţir Asyūţ”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قناطر اسيوط”
- French: “barrage d’Assiout”
- French: “Nouveau barrage d’Assiout”
- German: “Asyut-Stauwehr”
- Hebrew: “מחסום אסיוט”
- Persian: “اسیوط براج”
- Swedish: “Qanāţir Asyūţ”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Асьют”
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