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 34^th 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, 2025). The article contains 40 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 4248^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3763^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 6332^nd most popular in all topics.

The 3031^st most popular in AI.

The 34^th most popular in buildings.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3551^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 6144^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8585^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Three Gorges Dam” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (6144^th place) and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Three Gorges Dam”, its content was written by 41 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3763^rd place) and edited by 4442 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3031^st place).

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

The article is cited 18 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3847 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #56 in December 2012
• Global: #235 in May 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #217 in October 2010
• Global: #152 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, 2025 (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		98.6134
5	English (en) Three Gorges Dam		95.9572
6	Esperanto (eo) Baraĵo Tri Gorĝoj		94.9465
7	Chinese (zh) 长江三峡水利枢纽工程		89.5322
8	Latin (la) Moles Trium Angustiarum		89.0268
9	German (de) Drei-Schluchten-Talsperre		86.4406
10	Simple English (simple) Three Gorges Dam		85.7056

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Three Gorges Dam		15 239 840
2	German (de) Drei-Schluchten-Talsperre		3 362 359
3	Chinese (zh) 长江三峡水利枢纽工程		2 624 626
4	Japanese (ja) 三峡ダム		2 575 156
5	Spanish (es) Presa de las Tres Gargantas		2 059 981
6	French (fr) Barrage des Trois-Gorges		1 736 423
7	Vietnamese (vi) Đập Tam Hiệp		1 073 082
8	Polish (pl) Tama Trzech Przełomów		1 036 462
9	Portuguese (pt) Hidrelétrica das Três Gargantas		986 956
10	Russian (ru) Три ущелья (электростанция)		977 756

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		58 018
2	Spanish (es) Presa de las Tres Gargantas		10 713
3	Chinese (zh) 长江三峡水利枢纽工程		9 815
4	German (de) Drei-Schluchten-Talsperre		7 395
5	Japanese (ja) 三峡ダム		6 337
6	Russian (ru) Три ущелья (электростанция)		5 665
7	French (fr) Barrage des Trois-Gorges		4 764
8	Polish (pl) Tama Trzech Przełomów		3 551
9	Vietnamese (vi) Đập Tam Hiệp		2 980
10	Italian (it) Diga delle Tre Gole		2 834

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		1 434
2	German (de) Drei-Schluchten-Talsperre		521
3	French (fr) Barrage des Trois-Gorges		324
4	Chinese (zh) 长江三峡水利枢纽工程		312
5	Spanish (es) Presa de las Tres Gargantas		177
6	Italian (it) Diga delle Tre Gole		160
7	Dutch (nl) Drieklovendam		146
8	Japanese (ja) 三峡ダム		120
9	Russian (ru) Три ущелья (электростанция)		100
10	Vietnamese (vi) Đập Tam Hiệp		75

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		5
2	Italian (it) Diga delle Tre Gole		3
3	German (de) Drei-Schluchten-Talsperre		2
4	Bulgarian (bg) Три клисури		1
5	Basque (eu) Hiru Arroiletako presa		1
6	Persian (fa) سد سه‌دره		1
7	French (fr) Barrage des Trois-Gorges		1
8	Galician (gl) Encoro das Tres Gargantas		1
9	Croatian (hr) Hidroelektrana Tri klanca		1
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Brana Tri kanjona		1

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

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