The Three Gorges Dam, officially the Yangtze River Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project, is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Hubei province, central China. It is the world's largest power station by installed capacity at 22,500 MW; the dam's body was completed in 2006, and the power plant became fully operational in 2012 when the last of its 32 main turbines began production. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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How many people were displaced by the Three Gorges reservoir?
Planning estimated that 13 cities, 140 towns and 1,350 villages would be flooded, and the residents were moved.
During planning, it was estimated that 13 cities, 140 towns and 1,350 villages would be partially or completely flooded by the reservoir, amounting to roughly 1.5 percent of the combined population of Hubei and Chongqing Municipality. The Chinese government moved these people to new homes and considered the displacement justified by the flood protection provided for the communities downstream of the dam.
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It is also the world's largest power station by installed capacity (22,500 MW)
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It is the world's largest power station by installed capacity at 22,500 MW; the dam's body was completed in 2006, and the power plant became fully operational in 2012 when the last of its 32 main turbines began production.
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The Three Gorges Dam, officially known as Yangtze River Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges.
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