Suez Canal

The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the and dividing Africa and Asia.
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Canal
  • Description: artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Canáil Suez”, “Canalul de Suez”, “Kanát asz-Szuvajsz”, “Qanâ el Suweis”, “Qanāt al-Sūwais”, “Qanāt al-Suways”, “Qanāt as Suways”, “Sues-Kanal”, “Suez”, “Suez-Kanal”, “Suezský kanál”, “y hasaha Suez”, “ypo’i Suez”, “क़नात-अल-सुवैस”, “स्वेज़ कनाल”, “ছুয়েজ খাল”, “குனாத் அல் சுவைஸ்”, and “苏彝士运河”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Suez Stadium and Green Island.

Stadium
Photo: Crosskimo, Public domain.
The is a multi-purpose stadium located in , Egypt. is situated 3½ km northwest of Suez Canal.

Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small artificial island in the Red Sea at the southern mouth of the Suez Canal. is situated 4 km southwest of Suez Canal.

Museum
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 2½ km north of Suez Canal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Port Suez.

Photo: Heb, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Suez is a seaport city in north-eastern , located…

Suez Canal

Latitude
29.93139° or 29° 55′ 53″ north
Longitude
32.56278° or 32° 33′ 46″ east
Open location code
7GXJWHJ7+H4
Geo­Names ID
347712
Wiki­data ID
Q899
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Suez Canal” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Suezkanaal”
  • Albanian: “Kanali i Suezit”
  • Amharic: “ስዌዝ ቦይ”
  • Arabic: “قناة السويس”
  • Aragonese: “Canal de Suez”
  • Armenian: “Սուեզի ջրանցք”
  • Assamese: “ছুৱেজ খাল”
  • Asturian: “Canal de Suez”
  • Awadhi: “स्वेज नहर”
  • Azerbaijani: “Süveyş kanalı”
  • Balinese: “Terusan Suéz”
  • Bashkir: “Әс-Сүәйс каналы”
  • Bashkir: “Сүәйс каналы”
  • Basque: “Suezko kanala”
  • Bavarian: “Sueskanal”
  • Belarusian: “Суэцкі канал”
  • Bengali: “সুয়েজ খাল”
  • Betawi: “Susukan Sués”
  • Bhojpuri: “स्वेज नहर”
  • Bosnian: “Suecki kanal”
  • Bosnian: “Sueski kanal”
  • Breton: “Kanol Suez”
  • Bulgarian: “Суецки канал”
  • Burmese: “ဆူးအက် တူးမြောင်း”
  • Catalan: “canal de Suez”
  • Catalan: “Canal de Suez”
  • Cebuano: “Suez Canal”
  • Central Bikol: “Kanal Suez”
  • Central Kanuri: “Suez Canal”
  • Central Kurdish: “نۆکەندی سوێز”
  • Chechen: “Суэцан татол”
  • Chinese: “苏伊士运河”
  • Chinese: “蘇伊士運河”
  • Chinese: “蘇彝士運河”
  • Chuvash: “Суец каналĕ”
  • Chuvash: “Суэц каналĕ”
  • Cornish: “Dowrgleudh Suez”
  • Cornish: “Gwerdhour Suez”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Süveyş kanalı”
  • Croatian: “Sueski kanal”
  • Czech: “Suezský průplav”
  • Danish: “Suez-kanalen”
  • Dutch: “Suezkanaal”
  • Eastern Mari: “Суэц канал”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قناة السويس”
  • Esperanto: “Sueza Kanalo”
  • Estonian: “Suessi kanal”
  • Faroese: “Suezveitin”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Suez Canal”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Suez Nahar”
  • Finnish: “Suezin kanava”
  • French: “canal de Suez”
  • French: “Canal de Suez”
  • Friulian: “Canâl di Suez”
  • Galician: “Canal de Suez”
  • Gan Chinese: “蘇伊士運河”
  • Georgian: “სუეცის არხი”
  • German: “Sueskanal”
  • German: “Suezkanal”
  • Greek: “Διώρυγα Σουέζ”
  • Greek: “Διώρυγα του Σουέζ”
  • Guarani: “yrape Suez”
  • Guarani: “Yrape Suez”
  • Gujarati: “સુએઝ નહેર”
  • Hausa: “Suez canal”
  • Hebrew: “תעלת סואץ”
  • Hindi: “स्वेज़ नहर”
  • Hungarian: “Szuezi-csatorna”
  • Iban: “Pemintas Suez”
  • Icelandic: “Súesskurðurinn”
  • Ido: “Kanalo di Suez”
  • Ido: “Suez-kanalo”
  • Iloko: “Kanal Suez”
  • Inari Sami: “Suez uáli”
  • Indonesian: “Terusan Suez”
  • Ingush: “Суэца хьарсам”
  • Interlingua: “Canal de Suez”
  • Interlingue: “Canale de Suez”
  • Irish: “Canáil Shuais”
  • Irish: “Canáil Suais”
  • Italian: “canale di Suez”
  • Italian: “Canale di Suez”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Suez Kianal”
  • Japanese: “スエズ運河”
  • Javanese: “Sidhatan Suwais”
  • Javanese: “Terusan Suèz”
  • Kabiyè: “Suɛz Hɛŋa”
  • Kabyle: “Targa n Swis”
  • Kannada: “ಸುಯೆಜ್ ಕಾಲುವೆ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Suec kanalı”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Suec”
  • Kashmiri: “سویَس کۄل”
  • Kazakh: “Суэц каналы”
  • Khmer: “ព្រែកជីកស៊ុយអែស”
  • Kirghiz: “Суэц каналы”
  • Korean: “수에즈 운하”
  • Kurdish: “Kanala Suezê”
  • Kurdish: “Kanala Swêşê”
  • Ladino: “Kanal de Suez”
  • Lao: “ຄອງສຸເອສ”
  • Latin: “Canalis Suesiensis”
  • Latvian: “Suecas kanāls”
  • Lezghian: “Суэц къанал”
  • Limburgan: “Suezkanaal”
  • Limburgan: “Suezkenaal”
  • Literary Chinese: “蘇彝士運河”
  • Lithuanian: “Sueco kanalas”
  • Lombard: “Canal de Suez”
  • Low German: “Sueskanal”
  • Low German: “Sueskanaol”
  • Luxembourgish: “Suezkanal”
  • Macedonian: “Суецки Канал”
  • Maithili: “स्वेज नहर”
  • Malagasy: “Lakandranon’ i Suez”
  • Malagasy: “Lakandranon’i Suez”
  • Malay: “Terusan Suez”
  • Malayalam: “സൂയസ് കനാൽ”
  • Maltese: “Kanal ta‘ Suez”
  • Maltese: “Kanal ta’ Suez”
  • Manx: “Ammyr Suez”
  • Marathi: “सुएझ कालवा”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Suez Ông-ò̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Suez Ūn-hô”
  • Minangkabau: “Tarusan Suez”
  • Mingrelian: “სუეციშ არხი”
  • Mongolian: “Суэцийн суваг”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “قناة السويس”
  • Neapolitan: “Canale ‘e Suez”
  • Neapolitan: “Canale de Suez”
  • Nepali: “स्वेज नहर”
  • Newari: “सुएज नहर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sueskanaal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Suezkanalen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suezkanalen”
  • Norwegian: “Suezkanalen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canal de Suèz”
  • Oromo: “Suez Canal”
  • Oromo: “Suwiiz Kanaal”
  • Ossetian: “Суэцы къанау”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੁਏਸ ਨਹਿਰ”
  • Persian: “کانال سوئز”
  • Piemontese: “Canal ëd Suez”
  • Polish: “Kanał Sueski”
  • Portuguese: “Canal de Suez”
  • Pushto: “سویز کانال”
  • Romanian: “Canalul Suez”
  • Russia Buriat: “Суэцэй һубаг”
  • Russian: “Суэцкий канал”
  • Rusyn: “Суезькый канал”
  • Samogitian: “Soeca kanals”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱩᱣᱮᱡᱽ ᱠᱮᱱᱟᱞ”
  • Sardinian: “Canale de Suez”
  • Scots: “Suez Canal”
  • Scots: “Suez Canaul”
  • Serbian: “Суецки канал”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sueski kanal”
  • Shona: “Muronga Suez Canal”
  • Sicilian: “Canali di Suez”
  • Sindhi: “سوئز ڪينال”
  • Sinhala: “සූවස් ඇළ”
  • Slovak: “Suezský prieplav”
  • Slovenian: “Sueški prekop”
  • Somali: “Kanaalka Suweys”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سوئز کانالی”
  • Spanish: “canal de Suez”
  • Spanish: “Canal de Suez”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⴱⴰⴷⵓ ⵏ ⵙⴰⵡⵉⵙ”
  • Swahili: “Mfereji wa Suez”
  • Swedish: “Suezkanalen”
  • Swiss German: “Sueskanaal”
  • Swiss German: “Sueskanal”
  • Tagalog: “Kanal ng Suez”
  • Tagalog: “Kanal Suez”
  • Tamil: “சுயஸ் கால்வாய்”
  • Tatar: “Сүәеш каналы”
  • Telugu: “సూయజ్ కాలువ”
  • Thai: “คลองสุเอซ”
  • Tsonga: “Mugerho wa Suez”
  • Turkish: “Süveyş Kanalı”
  • Turkmen: “Sues kanaly”
  • Ukrainian: “Суецький канал”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sueski kanal”
  • Urdu: “نہر سوئز”
  • Uzbek: “Suvaysh kanali”
  • Venetian: “Canal de Sues”
  • Veps: “Suecan kanal”
  • Vietnamese: “Kênh đào Suez”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kanal han Suez”
  • Welsh: “Camlas Suez”
  • Western Armenian: “Սուէզի ջրանցք”
  • Western Armenian: “Սուէզի Ջրանցքը”
  • Western Frisian: “Suezkanaal”
  • Western Frisian: “Suëzkanaal”
  • Western Panjabi: “نہر سوئز”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏伊士运河”
  • Yakut: “Суэц ханаала”
  • Yiddish: “סועץ קאנאל”
  • Yoruba: “Ìladò Suez”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇彝士運河”
  • “स्वेज नहर”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Būr Tawfīq and Ash Shaţţ.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Birkat al Masḩūr and Būz Misallāt.

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