Three Gorges Dam

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Three Gorges Dam - hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, China. This building is the 33^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 34^th most popular building in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Three Gorges Dam” in Simple English Wikipedia has 85.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 41 references and 17 sections.

This article has the best quality in Hungarian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4406^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3534^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 34^th most popular in buildings in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6396^th most popular in all topics.

The 3151^st most popular in AI.

The 33^rd most popular in buildings.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4452^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Three Gorges Dam”, its content was written by 44 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3534^th place) and edited by 4440 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3151^st place).

Three Gorges Dam is on the 34^th place in local ranking of buildings in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 33^rd place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 18 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3797 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #56 in December 2012
• Global: #232 in May 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #217 in October 2010
• Global: #150 in July 2020

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hungarian (hu) Három-szurdok-vízerőmű		100
2	Catalan (ca) Presa de les Tres Gorges		100
3	Uzbek (uz) Uch dara toʻgʻoni		100
4	Spanish (es) Presa de las Tres Gargantas		98.3687
5	English (en) Three Gorges Dam		95.748
6	Esperanto (eo) Baraĵo Tri Gorĝoj		94.6802
7	Latin (la) Moles Trium Angustiarum		89.8108
8	Chinese (zh) 长江三峡水利枢纽工程		89.5736
9	Simple English (simple) Three Gorges Dam		85.6947
10	German (de) Drei-Schluchten-Talsperre		84.8271

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Three Gorges Dam		15 871 110
2	German (de) Drei-Schluchten-Talsperre		3 465 280
3	Chinese (zh) 长江三峡水利枢纽工程		2 743 790
4	Japanese (ja) 三峡ダム		2 651 739
5	Spanish (es) Presa de las Tres Gargantas		2 149 765
6	French (fr) Barrage des Trois-Gorges		1 815 078
7	Vietnamese (vi) Đập Tam Hiệp		1 111 769
8	Polish (pl) Tama Trzech Przełomów		1 074 474
9	Russian (ru) Три ущелья (электростанция)		1 066 375
10	Portuguese (pt) Hidrelétrica das Três Gargantas		1 007 867

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Three Gorges Dam		37 228
2	Chinese (zh) 长江三峡水利枢纽工程		10 236
3	German (de) Drei-Schluchten-Talsperre		7 449
4	Japanese (ja) 三峡ダム		5 671
5	French (fr) Barrage des Trois-Gorges		4 573
6	Spanish (es) Presa de las Tres Gargantas		3 643
7	Russian (ru) Три ущелья (электростанция)		3 637
8	Persian (fa) سد سه‌دره		2 355
9	Polish (pl) Tama Trzech Przełomów		2 300
10	Italian (it) Diga delle Tre Gole		2 177

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Three Gorges Dam		1 458
2	German (de) Drei-Schluchten-Talsperre		528
3	French (fr) Barrage des Trois-Gorges		326
4	Chinese (zh) 长江三峡水利枢纽工程		319
5	Spanish (es) Presa de las Tres Gargantas		182
6	Italian (it) Diga delle Tre Gole		162
7	Dutch (nl) Drieklovendam		146
8	Japanese (ja) 三峡ダム		121
9	Russian (ru) Три ущелья (электростанция)		101
10	Vietnamese (vi) Đập Tam Hiệp		76

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Three Gorges Dam		6
2	German (de) Drei-Schluchten-Talsperre		2
3	Spanish (es) Presa de las Tres Gargantas		2
4	Chinese (zh) 长江三峡水利枢纽工程		2
5	Catalan (ca) Presa de les Tres Gorges		1
6	Basque (eu) Hiru Arroiletako presa		1
7	Persian (fa) سد سه‌دره		1
8	Croatian (hr) Hidroelektrana Tri klanca		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Три ущелини		1
10	Uzbek (uz) Uch dara toʻgʻoni		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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