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Three Gorges Dam
View this place on Google Earth Longitude: 111.010556 Latitude: 30.824167
Ongoing construction on the Yangtze River
(Blue River), the Three Gorges Dam is the
largest project in the world (18 200 MW, the equivalent of 18 nuclear reactors!). With a height of 185 m, this gigantic dam will stop the floods of the Yangtze. Its construction, whose completion is planned for 2009 is around 1.5 to 2 million people.
Found by BigBlueBen. Country: China More info on this place with Wikipedia
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