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World's 20 Largest Mega Dams to Guess
Featuring Three Gorges Dam, Hoover Dam & 18 more iconic hydroelectric landmarks. Test your geography with satellite imagery
Three Gorges Dam
The world's largest hydroelectric power station, a massive straight-line concrete gravity dam spanning the Yangtze River, visible from space.
Hoover Dam
An iconic white arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, known as the 'Diamond of the Desert'.
Itaipu Dam
A massive hollow gravity dam with enormous spillways, long held the record for world's highest electricity generation.
Aswan High Dam
A massive rock-fill dam on the Nile River, creating the vast Lake Nasser upstream.
Grand Coulee Dam
A massive concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River, the largest US power facility with a distinctive zigzag shape.
Glen Canyon Dam
Often mistaken for Hoover Dam, a white arch dam in the red canyon of the Colorado River.
Guri Dam
Features spectacular long-distance spillways and a vast reservoir, the power heart of the Caroní River.
Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam
Russia's largest hydroelectric station, a massive arch dam spanning the Yenisei River, truly majestic.
Tucuruí Dam
A green giant in the Amazon rainforest, featuring an ultra-long earth dam and spectacular concrete spillway gates.
Kariba Dam
An elegant double-curvature arch dam in the Zambezi River gorge, creating the world's largest man-made lake by volume.
Tarbela Dam
The world's largest earth-fill dam, like a massive mountain range spanning the Indus River.
Xiluodu Dam
An ultra-tall double-curvature arch dam in the deep Jinsha River gorge, featuring elegant curves and extreme engineering difficulty.
Atatürk Dam
A massive rockfill dam on the Euphrates River, creating a huge blue lake behind it, a pearl in the desert.
Krasnoyarsk Dam
A famous gravity dam, highly recognizable for its unique ship lift (inclined plane boat lift) track.
Robert-Bourassa Dam
A massive underground powerhouse dam in Quebec's far north, famous for its spectacular 'Giant's Staircase' spillway.
Jinping-I Dam
The world's tallest dam at 305m, hidden in the near-vertical Yalong River gorge, appearing as just a thin line on satellite imagery.
Baihetan Dam
The world's second-largest hydroelectric station, second only to Three Gorges.
Hirakud Dam
One of the world's longest earthen dams, like a thin line crossing the wide Mahanadi River valley.
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
A controversial blue giant on the Nile River.
W.A.C. Bennett Dam
A large earth-fill dam on the Peace River, creating the massive Williston Lake, a prime example of human landscape alteration.
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