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HIGHEST LONGEST BIGGEST LARGEST DEEPEST SMALLEST OF THE WORLD
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Guri Dam
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Nurek Dam
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Jinping-I Dam
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Three Gorges Dam
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Detailed explanation-1: -Three Gorges Dam, China is the world’s largest hydroelectric facility. Accroding to Wikimedia, the Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, China.
Detailed explanation-2: -Currently, the tallest dam in the world is Nurek Dam on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan. It is 984 feet (300 meters) tall. Hoover Dam is 726.4 feet (221.3 meters) tall. Today, Hoover Dam still ranks in the top 20 of the tallest dams in the world, but only in the concrete gravity and arch categories.
Detailed explanation-3: -The dam is some 1.4 miles (2.3 kilometers) long and 607 feet (185 meters) tall-five times larger than the U.S.’s Hoover Dam. Construction workers used some 21 million cubic yards (16 million cubic meters) of concrete in the structure-a world record.