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What is the Suez Canal?

It is a canal cut between Port Said and the Suez in Egypt, which joins the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

It was engineered by a French Engineer and diplomat named Ferdinand de Lesseps.  It took 10 years to build from 1859-1869.

The Suez is over 160km (100 miles) long.

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