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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).
Canal Place Location Map Status Oceans ... Various proposals have existed since the construction of the Suez Canal. [4] [5] ... Nicaragua Canal: Central America
The Suez Company or Suez Canal Company, full initial name Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez (Universal Company of the Maritime Canal of Suez), [1] sometimes colloquially referred to in French as Le Suez ("The Suez"), [2] [3] was a company formed by Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1858 to operate the Egyptian granted concession of the Suez Canal, which the company built between 1859 and 1869.
Joseph Liard, Canal du Rhône au Rhin; Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894), Suez Canal and the failed first attempt at a canal in Panama; Louis de Règemortes, Canal de l'Ourcq, Canal de Saint-Quentin; Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609-1680), Canal du Midi, Canal de l'Ourcq; Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Canal de Bourbourg; See also, List of canals in ...
Because canal tolls have risen as ships have become larger, some critics [125] have suggested that the Suez Canal is now a viable alternative for cargo between Asia and the US East Coast. [126] The Panama Canal, however, continues to serve more than 144 of the world's trade routes and the majority of canal traffic comes from the "all-water ...
The Canal des Deux Mers (English: Two Seas Canal) has been used to describe two different but similar things since the 1660s. In some cases, it describes the entire path from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, including two canals, the Canal du Midi and the Canal Latéral de la Garonne. In others it is used interchangeably with the Canal du ...
Patowmack Canal (Potomac Canal) MD: 1795 1828 Consists of the Little Falls Canal, Great Falls Canal, Seneca Falls Canal, Payne's Falls Canal, and House Falls Canal VA: Pawtucket Canal: MA: 1796 Pennsylvania Canal: PA: Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal: PA: 1840 1877 82 mi (132 km) OH: Portage Canal: WI: 1876 1951 2 mi (3.2 km) Powell's Canal: VA
Proposed by Governor of New York De Witt Clinton, the Erie was the first canal project undertaken as a public good to be financed at public risk through the issuance of bonds. [9] When the project was completed in 1825, the canal linked the Hudson River to Lake Erie via 83 separate locks and over a distance of 363 miles (584 km).
