Artificial waterways that cut across land to join seas or lakes, shortening voyages for ocean-going ships. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the waterway an artificial sea-level waterway, ship canal or seaway. It excludes inland and historic canals. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Suez Canal
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The Suez Canal (; Egyptian Arabic: قناة السويس, 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).
Wikipedia: Panama Canal
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The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometer (51-mile) waterway in Panama that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean.
Wikipedia: Kiel Canal
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The Kiel Canal (German: Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal) is a 98-kilometer-long (61 mi) freshwater canal that links the North Sea to the Baltic Sea.
Wikipedia: Corinth Canal
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The Corinth Canal (Greek: Διώρυγα της Κορίνθου, romanized: Dioryga tis Korinthou) is a canal in Greece that connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea.
Wikipedia: Welland Canal
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The Welland Canal is a ship canal in Ontario, Canada, and part of the St.
Wikipedia: Volga-Don Canal
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Lenin Volga-Don Shipping Canal (Russian: Волго-Донской судоходный канал имени В.
St. Lawrence Seaway (Wikipedia)
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is a system of rivers, locks, canals, and channels in Eastern Canada and the Northern United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as Duluth, Minnesota, at the western end of Lake Superior.
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