List of dams in the world
In this list, all major or important dams in the world are to be listed alphabetically and by country. If their list becomes too large for a country, the list can be outsourced for this country, as has already been done for Germany and Switzerland, for example.
Afghanistan
Egypt
- Aswan Dam (Lake Nasser)
- Naga Hammadi barrage
- Sadd-el-Kafara
Ethiopia
- Angereb Reservoir
- Fincha power plant
- Gilgel Gibe III
- Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
- Coca reservoir
- Tana Beles
- Tekeze
- Tis Abay Power Plants
Albania
- Bovilla Lake (Liqeni i Bovillës)
- Fierza Dam (Liqeni i Fierzës)
- Koman Reservoir (Liqeni i Komanit)
- Shkopet Reservoir (Liqeni i Shkopetit)
- Ulza reservoir (Liqeni i Ulzës)
- Vau Deja Reservoir (Liqeni i Vaut të Dejës)
Algeria
- Beni-Badhel
- Beni Haroun
- Cheurfas
- Derdeur dam
- Djorf Torba
- El Habra
- Fergoug
- Gargar
- Ghrib
- Keddara
- Koudiat Acerdoune
- Meffrouch
- Oued Fodda
- Ponteba
- Tichy Haf
Angola
Argentina
- Alicurá dam
- Cerros Colorados
- Chapetón
- El Cajon
- El Chocón
- Frías dam
- Garabi-Roncador (with Brazil)
- Lago San Roque
- Pati
- Piedra del Águila
- Salto Grande (with Uruguay)
- Yacyretá -Apipe (with Paraguay)
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Australia
- 75-Miles Dam
- Lake Barrington (Tasmania)
- Briseis dam
- Cardinia Reservoir
- Dartmouth Dam
- Dungowan Dam
- Gold Creek Dam
- Harvey Dam
- Lake Argyle
- Lake Gordon
- Greenvale Reservoir
- Lake Hume
- Lower Stony Creek Dam
- Maroon
- O'Shannassy Reservoir
- Silvan Reservoir
- Talbingo dam
- Thomson Dam
- Upper Yarra Reservoir
- Victoria Dam
- Lake Wivenhoe
Bangladesh
Belgium
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Buško reservoir (Buško jezero)
- Jablanica reservoir
- Rama reservoir
- Zvorniksee (with Serbia)
Brazil
- Água Vermelha reservoir
- Balbina reservoir
- Barra Grande
- Belo Monte
- Camara dam
- Campos Novos Dam
- Corumbá reservoir
- Corumbá reservoir III
- Corumbá Reservoir IV
- Emborcação reservoir
- Furnas reservoir
- Garabi-Roncador (with Argentina)
- Ilha Solteira reservoir
- Irapé dam
- Itá hydroelectric power station
- Itaipú (with Paraguay)
- Itaparica reservoir
- Itumbiara reservoir
- Jirau
- L'Oros
- Machadinho dam
- Paulo Afonso hydropower complex
- Porto Primavera
- Santo Antonio
- Salto Caxias
- São Simão Reservoir
- Serra da Mesa
- Sobradinho reservoir
- Três-Marias reservoir
- Tucuruí reservoir
- Xingó
Bulgaria
- Dushanzi reservoir
- Ivaylovgrad dam
- Ivanovo Reservoir
- Kardzhali dam
- Studen Kladenez dam
- Watscha reservoir
- Zankow Kamak dam
Burkina Faso
Chile
China
Costa Rica
Germany
Ecuador
Ivory Coast
Finland
France
- Barrage du Puy Terrier
- Barrage de la Touche Poupard
- Bimont dam
- Bouzey
- Chambon dam (Lac du Chambon)
- Reservoir de Charmes
- François Zola dam
- Génissiat dam
- Glanum Dam
- Gréoux dam
- Barrage de Hautefage
- La Lauch dam
- Grand Maison
- Lac Blanc
- Lac de Foret de Orient
- Lac de la Liez
- Lac de Pareloup
- Lac de Saint Cassien
- Lac de Sainte-Croix
- Lac de Serre-Ponçon
- Réservoir de la Vingeanne
- Lac des Settons
- Lac du Der-Chantecoq
- Lac du Mont Cenis
- Lac Vieilles des Forges
- Malpasset
- Marèges dam
- Monteynard dam
- Montézic
- Petit-Saut dam
- Pont du Roi dam
- Saint-Ferréol reservoir (Bassin de Saint-Ferréol)
- Roselend Dam
- Saint-Sernin-du-Bois
- Sainte-Croix dam
- Tignes Dam (Lac de Tignes)
- Vouglans dam
Georgia
- Enguri dam (Inguri)
- Khudoni Dam
Ghana
- Akosombo Dam (Volta Reservoir)
Greece
- Alyzeia lock
- Evinos Reservoir (Techniti Limni Evinou) - Evinos
- Kastraki reservoir (Techniti Limni Kastrakiou; Messochora reservoir) - Acheloos
- Kremasta Reservoir (Techniti Limni Kremaston) - Acheloos
- Ladonas Reservoir (Techniti Limni Ladona) - Ladonas
- Limni-o-Pigon reservoir (Techniti Limni O Pigon) - Aoos
- Marathon lake
- Mesochora reservoir (Techniti Limni Mesochoras) - Acheloos
- Mornos Reservoir (Techniti Limni Mornou) - Mornos
- Pinios Reservoir (Techniti Limni Piniou) - Pinios in the Peloponnese
- Plastiras Reservoir (Techniti Limni Plastira) - Tavropos
- Polyfytos Reservoir (Techniti Limni Aliakmona; Aliakmonas Reservoir) - Aliakmonas
- Pournari Reservoir (Techniti Limni Pournariou or Kalaritikou) - Arachthos
- Smokovo Reservoir (Techniti Limni Smokovou)
- Stratos reservoir (Techniti Limni Stratou) - Acheloos
- Sykia Dam (Techniti Limni Sykias) - Acheloos - under construction
- Thissavros (Nestos reservoir; Techniti Limni Nestou / Thissavrou) - Nestos
Great Britain
- Allt-na-Lairige dam
- Angram Reservoir
- Bilberry Dam
- Blackbrook Dam
- Brent Reservoir
- Burrator dam
- Loch Cluanie
- Clydach Vale
- Cwm Carne
- Cow Green Reservoir
- Derwent Reservoir (Derbyshire)
- Derwent Reservoir (North East England)
- Diggle Moss
- Dale Dyke Dam
- Dinorwig hydroelectric power station
- Eigiau and Coedty
- Eyebrook Reservoir
- Haweswater Reservoir
- Howden Reservoir
- Kentmere Reservoir
- Kielder Water
- Ladybower Reservoir
- Loch Mullardoch
- Malham Tarn
- Rutland Water
- Seathwaite Tarn
- Sheepstor dam
- Stocks reservoir
- Thirlmere
- Waulkmill Glen Reservoir
Guatemala
Honduras
India
- Baglihar Dam
- Bargi dam
- Bhakra dam
- Bhatgar Dam
- Gandhi reservoir
- Gopinatham Dam
- Hirakud Dam
- Idukki Dam
- Kadamparei Dam
- Kishau dam
- Koldam Dam
- Koyna Dam
- Krishna Raja Sagar dam
- Lower Subansiri Dam
- Machhu II
- Nanaksagar dam
- Nagarjuna Sagar Dam
- Panshet and Khadakwasla
- Ranjit Sagar Dam
- Renuka dam
- Rihand Dam
- Sanjay Sarovar Dam (Upper Wainganga)
- Sardar-Sarovar dam
- Tehri dam
- Tigra dam
- Ukai dam
- Vaitarna dam
Indonesia
Iraq
Iran
- Amir Kabir
- Bakhtiari dam
- Dec dam
- Gotvand dam
- Marun dam
- Karun-3
- Karun-4
- Kurit dam
- Masjid-e-Soleiman Dam (Karun-2)
- Rezah Shah Kabir Dam
- Rudbar Lorestan
- Sefid Rud dam
- Seimare dam
- Shahid Abbaspur Dam (Karun-1)
- Siah Bisheh Pumped Storage Power Plant
Iceland
- Blondulón
- Kárahnjúkavirkjun
- Hágöngumiðlun
- Þórisvatn
- Kvíslaveita
- Sultartangalón
- Krókslón
- Hrauneyjafosslón
- Elliðavatn
Italy
- Alla Sella Zerbino
- Alpa Gera
- Bruna dam
- Cingino dam
- Gleno dam
- Lake Lei
- Lake Livigno
- Lake Morasco
- Lake Pozzillo
- Lake Prà della Stua
- Lake San Colombano
- Lake Vagli
- Lake Valvestino
- Place Moulin
- Publino
- Reschensee
- Rutte dam
- Santa Giustina Dam
- Speccheri dam
- Subiaco dam
- Vajont dam
- Vernagt reservoir
- Lago del Flumendosa reservoir (Sardinia)
- Dams in South Tyrol
Japan
- Irukaike
- Kannagawa Pumped Storage Plant
- Kurobe Dam
- Misogawa
- Miyagase
- Nagawado Dam
- Naramata dam
- Nukui Dam
- Okutadami Dam
- Okutama lake
- Sakuma dam
- Takase Dam
- Tedorigawa Dam
- Tokuyama in Ibigawa
- Urayama dam
Yemen
Jordan
Cambodia
Canada
- Baskatong Reservoir
- Reservoir Bersimis-2
- Cabonga Reservoir
- Reservoir de Caniapiscau
- Churchill Falls
- Reservoir Decelles
- Dozois Reservoir
- Réservoir de l'Eastmain 1
- Gardiner dam
- Reservoir Gouin
- Grand Lake (Newfoundland)
- Iroquois Reservoir (with USA)
- Jenpeg reservoir
- Kenney Dam
- Réservoir Laforge-1
- Laforge Reservoir-2
- La Grande Reservoir 1
- Barrage Robert-Bourassa (La Grande 2)
- Barrage La Grande-3
- Barrage La Grande-4
- Réservoir Manic 1
- Manic Reservoir 3
- Daniel Johnson Dam (Manicouagan Reservoir)
- Mica dam
- Opinaca Reservoir
- Réservoir aux Outardes 2
- Réservoir aux Outardes 3
- Réservoir aux Outardes 4
- Pipmuacan Reservoir
- Lac des Quinze
- Reindeer Lake
- Revelstoke Dam
- Lac Sainte-Anne
- Reservoir de la Sainte-Marguerite-3
- Seymour Falls Dam
- Smallwood Reservoir
- "Syncrude tailings dam"
- Timiskamingsee
- W. A. C. Bennett Dam
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kyrgyzstan
- Atbaschy
- Kambar-Ata 1
- Kambar-Ata 2
- Kirovskoye
- Kurpsai
- Ortotokoi
- Papanskoye
- Shamaldysai
- Tashkömür
- Toktogul
- Uchkorgon
Colombia
- Guavio dam
- Andaqui dam
- Ituango dam
- La Esmeralda dam
- Miel I (hydropower plant)
- Porce III
- Salvajina dam
- Sogamoso dam
Congo (Democratic Republic; formerly Zaire)
Congo (Republic)
Croatia
Laos
Lesotho
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malawi
Malaysia
Mali
Morocco
Mexico
- Aguamilpa dam
- Amistad dam
- Don Martin dam
- El Cajon
- El Infiernillo
- Huites dam
- La Angostura
- La Yesca
- Álvaro Obregón Dam (Guanajuato)
- Álvaro Obregón Dam (Sonora)
- Malpaso Dam (Nezahualcóyotl)
- Manuel M. Torres Dam (Chicoasén)
- Presa Manuel Avila Camacho (Valsequillo Dam)
- Zimapán dam
Montenegro
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nepal
New Caledonia
New Zealand
- Lake Benmore
- Clyde Dam
- Lake Dunstan
- Lake Karapiro
- Lake Matahina
- Lake Opuha
- Lake Rotorangi
- Lake Ruataniwha
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
- Huichon Reservoir
- Imnam Dam (Kumgang)
- Supung Dam (with China)
Norway
Austria
- Erlaufstausee
- Gepatschspeicher
- Kölnbreinsperre
- Schlegeis reservoir
- Silvretta reservoir
- Kaprun reservoir
- Ottenstein reservoir
- Wienerwaldsee
more see:
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
- Represa de Acaray
- Itaipú (with Brazil)
- Yacyretá -Apipe (with Argentina)
- Yguasu
Peru
- Poechos Reservoir
Philippines
Poland
- Bobertalsperre
- Czorsztyn dam
- Goldentraum dam
- Marklissa dam
- Myczkowce reservoir
- Lomnitztalsperre
- Silesian dam
- Solina reservoir
- Jeziora Turawskie
- Niedów Reservoir (Wittig Reservoir )
- Wölfelsgrunder dam
- Żywiec lake
Portugal
- Abrilongo
- Açafal
- Aguieira
- Alcoutim
- Alfaiates
- Alfândega da Fé
- Alijó
- Alqueva
- Alto Ceira
- Alto-Lindoso
- Alto Rabagão
- Alvito
- Andorinhas
- Apartadura
- Arade
- Arcossó
- Armamar
- Azibo
- Tinkering
- Beliche
- Bemposta
- Bouçã
- Bouçoais-Sonim
- Burga
- Cabril
- Caia
- Caldeirão
- Camba
- Caniçada
- Capinha
- Carrapatelo
- Castelo do Bode
- Catapereiro
- Cercosa
- Coimbra
- Corgas
- Corte Brique
- Cova do Viriato
- Covão do Ferro
- Cuba
- Divor
- Enxoé
- Fagilde
- Freixeirinha
- Fronhas
- Funcho
- Gameiro
- Gostei
- Guilhofrei
- Idanha
- Lagoa Comprida
- Lucefecit
- Maranhão
- Marateca
- Meimoa
- Minutos
- Miranda
- Montargil
- Monte da Rocha
- Namorada
- Monte Novo
- Monte Novo do Castelinho
- Morgavel
- Muro
- Muro da Prega
- Nunes
- Óbidos
- Odeáxere
- Odeleite
- Odelouca
- Odivelas
- Paradela
- Pedrógão
- Pego do Altar
- Peneireiro
- Penha Garcia
- Penids
- Picote
- Pisco
- Pocinho
- Poio
- Póvoa
- Pracana
- Ranhados
- Rebordelo
- Rego do Milho
- Ribeira do Paúl
- Rio da Mula
- Roucanito
- Roxo
- Sabugal
- Salamonde
- S. Domingos
- Salgueiro
- Santa Clara
- Santa Luzia
- Santa Maria da Aguiar
- São Domingos
- Senhora de Monforte
- Serra Serrada
- Sordo
- Tabueira
- Teja
- Torrão
- Toulica
- Touvedo
- Vale do Cobrao
- Vale do Gaio
- Vale Madeiro
- Valeira
- Varosa
- Várzea de Calde
- Vascoveiro
- Venda Nova
- Venda Velha
- Veiros
- Vermiosa
- Vilar
- Vilarinho das Furnas
- Vigia
- Zambujo
Romania
- Belci dam
- Bezid
- Dragan
- Iron Gate (with Serbia)
- Gura Apelor
- Izvorul Muntelui
- Leşu
- Maneciu
- Oașa
- Paltinu
- Pecineagu
- Poiana Uzului
- Rausor
- Siriu
- Stânca-Costeşti
- Strâmtori
- Dew
- Turnu
- Vidra
- Vidraru
- Zetea
Russia
- Belgorod reservoir
- Boguchany reservoir
- Bratsker Reservoir
- Bureja dam
- Irkutsk reservoir
- Ivankovo Reservoir
- Kamastausee
- Kolyma reservoir
- Krasnoyarsk Reservoir
- Kuibyshev reservoir
- Kureika reservoir
- Maina reservoir
- Nizhnekamsk reservoir
- Nizhny Novgorod reservoir
- Novosibirsk Reservoir
- Pavlovsk reservoir
- Rybinsk Reservoir
- Sajano-Schuschensk reservoir
- Saratov reservoir
- Seja dam
- Tirlyan Dam
- Cheboksarsk reservoir
- Tschirkei dam
- Turukhansk hydropower plant
- Uglich reservoir
- Ust-Ilimsk reservoir
- Verkhne-Svirsko reservoir
- Chantaika reservoir
- Viljui reservoir
- Volgograd reservoir
- Votkinsk Reservoir
- Zimljansk reservoir
Zambia
- Itezhitezhi Dam
- Kafue dam
- Kariba Dam (with Zimbabwe)
Saudi Arabia
Sweden
Switzerland
Serbia
- Lake Peručac near Bajina Bašta
- Djerdapsee (with Romania)
- Zvorniksee (with Bosnia)
Zimbabwe
- Kariba Dam (with Zambia)
Slovakia
- Arwa reservoir
- Gabčíkovo power plant (with Hungary)
- Zemplínska šírava
Spain
- Alcantarilla dam
- Almendra Dam
- Alqueva Reservoir (with Portugal)
- Barrios de Luna dam
- Canales dam
- Canelles dam
- Embalse de la Concepción
- Embalse de Zahara-El Gastor
- Consuegra dam
- Cornalvo dam
- El Atazar
- Esparragalejo dam
- Gasco dam
- Giribaile
- Itoiz dam
- Iturranduz dam
- Embalse de Mequinenza
- Muel Dam
- Proserpina dam
- Almonacid de la Cuba dam
- Dam of the Ermita de la Virgen del Pilar
- La Pared de los Moros
- Puy Foradado Dam
- Puentes dam
- Pantà de Riba-roja
- Salime reservoir
- La Serena Reservoir
- Tibi dam
- Torrejon el Rubio
- Tous dam
- Vega de Tera dam
- Xuriguera
- Yesa dam
Sri Lanka
South Africa
Sudan
South Korea
Suriname
Syria
Tajikistan
Taiwan
Thailand
- Bhumibol Dam
- Queen Sirikit Dam
- Si Nakharin Dam
- Tha Dan
- Ubol Ratana Dam
- Vajiralongkorn Dam (Khao Laem)
Togo
Czech Republic
- Bedřichov dam
- Březová dam
- Brněnská přehrada
- Chřibská dam
- Darretalsperre
- Dlouhé Stráně pumped storage plant
- Fláje dam
- Fojtka dam
- Harcov dam
- Horecký rybník
- Horka dam
- Hubenov dam
- Janov dam
- Jesenice dam
- Jezeří dam
- Jirkov dam
- Josefův Důl dam
- Kadaň dam
- Chomutov dam
- Krausebauden dam
- Křimov dam
- Kružberk dam
- The Království dam
- Letovice dam
- Lipno reservoir
- The Lučina dam
- Ludkovice dam
- Luhačovice dam
- Máchovo jezero (Hirschberger Large Pond)
- Mlynice dam
- Mostiště dam
- Mseno dam
- Myslivny reservoir
- Dam Naděje (Hope)
- Reservoir Nechranice
- Orlík dam
- Pařížov dam
- Podhora dam
- Preßnitz dam
- Šance dam
- Seč dam
- Skalka dam
- Slapy dam
- Slezská Harta dam
- Švihov dam
- Dam on the White Desse
- Frain dam
- Reservoir Újezd
- Vír I dam
- Vír II dam
- Vranovská přehrada
- Vrchlice dam
- Dam on the White Desse
- Reservoir Žermanice
- Žlutice dam
Tunisia
Turkey
- Akköprü Dam
- Alacali dam
- Alaköprü Dam
- Altınkaya Dam
- Atasu dam
- Ataturk Dam
- Bakacak dam
- Batman dam
- Bayburt Dam
- Berke dam
- Birecik dam
- Borçka dam
- Boyabat Dam
- Çine-Adnan-Menderes dam
- Dara dam
- Deriner dam
- Devegeçidi dam
- Ermenek dam
- Gökçekaya dam
- Hasan Uğurlu Dam
- Hasanağa Dam
- Hirfanlı Reservoir
- Ilisu dam
- İkizcetepeler Dam
- Karakaya Dam
- Kayraktepe dam
- Keban dam
- Kigi dam
- Küçükler dam
- Madra dam
- Manavgat (reservoir)
- Menzelet dam
- Oymapınar dam
- Özlüce dam
- Seyhan Dam
- Silvan dam
- Torul dam
- Yortanli Dam
Uganda
Ukraine
Uruguay
United States
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
- Caruachi hydropower plant
- Guri reservoir (Raul Leoni)
- Macagua
- Tocoma Dam
Vietnam
Cyprus
See main article: List of Dams and Reservoirs of the Republic of Cyprus
See also
- List of the largest reservoirs on earth
- List of the largest dams on earth
- List of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world
- List of dams in Germany
- List of reservoirs in Austria
- List of reservoirs in Switzerland
- List of dam accidents
- List of Roman dams