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The Suez Canal (/ ˈ s uː. ɛ z /; Arabic: قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ, Qanāt as-Suwais) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest of Egypt).
The Isthmus of Suez is the 125-kilometre-wide (78 mi) land bridge [1] that lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, east of the Suez Canal, the boundary between the continents of Africa and Asia. [2] To the south is the Gulf of Suez, dividing mainland Egypt from the Sinai Peninsula. The area is mostly flat and barren, with a few ...
This figure rises to 1,400,000 by including Western Sinai, the parts of the Port Said, Ismailia and Suez Governorates lying east of the Suez Canal. Port Said alone has a population of roughly 500,000 people (January 2013). Portions of the populations of Ismailia and Suez live in west Sinai, while the rest live on the western side of the Suez Canal.
Canal Place Location Map Status Oceans Notes Canal of the Pharaohs: Egypt ... Suez Canal: Isthmus of Suez Completed 1869; In-operation ...
This is a route-map template for the Suez Canal, a waterway in Egypt.. For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
This is how not to get stuck on the Suez CanalFrancois Mayor is making subtle adjustments on the wheelto coax his cargo vessel through a narrow point in the Canal."With a waterway you have little ...
Suez (UK: / ˈ s uː ɪ z /, US: / ˌ s uː ˈ ɛ z /, [3] [4] Egyptian Arabic: السويس, romanized: as-Suways, pronounced [esseˈweːs]) is a seaport city with a population of about 800,000 as of August 2021 in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez on the Red Sea, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal.
The tracking map on Vesslefinder.com from Monday afternoon, local time, shows the Ever Given once again centered and moving in the Suez Canal. ... a diagonal across the roughly 656-foot-wide Suez ...