Aswan Dam
dam in Aswan, Egypt
Facts
16 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- gravity dam, embankment dam, hydroelectric power station[4][5]
- Inception
- 1960[7]
- Native label
- سد أسوان[11]
Location
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 23.971°, 32.880°
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Aswan Governorate[1]
Population and size
- Elevation above sea level
- +171[12]
More facts +7
- Described by source
- The New Student's Reference Work, Belarusian encyclopedia[9][10]
- Drainage basin
- Nile basin[15]
- Nominal power output
- +2100[13]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]
- Reservoir created
- Lake Nasser[16]
- Vertical depth
- +180[14]
🏷️ Also known as
en Aswan Dam
en Aswan elu Dam
en Aswan High Dam
ar السد العالى
ar سد عالي
ar سد أسوان العالي
ar السد العالي في أسوان
ar السد العالي
cs Nová Asuánská přehrada
cs Násirovo jezero
cs Vysoká Asuánská přehrada
da Aswan High Dam
da Aswandæmningen
de Aswan-Damm
de Assuanstaudamm
de Assuan-Hochdamm
de Assuan-Staudamm
de Assuandamm
el Φράγμα του Ασσουάν
el Φράγμα του Ασουάν
🔖 Identifiers · 30
- VIAF cluster ID
- 243878010
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- sh85009044
- GND ID
- 4722276-1
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
- 29489943X
- BBC Things ID
- 689e4991-fc22-4bc9-80ef-79431b7bbce8
- Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID
- 190720
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
- 1wpelR
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
- 448878
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- topic/Aswan-High-Dam
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- haut-barrage-d-assouan
- Freebase ID
- /m/01b4yy
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -290200
Show all 30 identifiers +18
- GeoNames ID
- 361121
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 1101064
- Global Energy Monitor Wiki ID
- Aswan_High_Dam_hydroelectric_plant, Aswan_I_hydroelectric_plant
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- rescloses-daswan
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0005878
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Aswandemningene
- Harper's tag
- aswan-high-dam-egypt
- Interlingual Index ID
- i50226
- J9U entity ID
- 987007295070605171
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3871893
- Quora topic ID
- Aswan-Dam
- SNARC ID
- Draba muralis
- Structurae structure ID
- 20001068
- U.S. National Archives Identifier
- 10038401
- Wellcome Collection concept ID
- s4kwcq5j
- Wolfram Language entity code
- Entity["HistoricalEvent", "AswanHighDamOpens"], Entity["Dam", "HighDam::r7296"]
- YSO ID
- 15542
- Yale LUX ID
- place/ca19ee3f-00db-4563-b097-0cc1c72c5dab
📚 Sources · 1
- GeoNames CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
⛏️ Lake Facts
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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Cairo
2026-09-26
S/DAM · EG
GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
as of 2026-09-26
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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- 4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
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🔗 Connections
Instance of 3
Country 1
Drainage basin 1
Located in or next to body of water 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Located in/on physical feature 1
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Reservoir created 1
SNARC ID 1
← Impounded by 1
← Model item 1
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