Suez Canal
The Suez Canal 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Canal
- Description: artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt
- Also known as: “Qanâ el Suweis” and “Qanāt as Suways”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Suez Stadium and Green Island.
Suez Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Crosskimo, Public domain.
The Suez Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Suez, Egypt. It is used mostly for football and serves as the home stadium of the main soccer team of the city and also Asmant El-Suweis and Petrojet SC. Suez Stadium is situated 3½ km northwest of Suez Canal.
Green Island
Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Green Island is a small artificial island in the Red Sea at the southern mouth of the Suez Canal. Green Island is situated 4 km southwest of Suez Canal.
Suez National Museum
Museum
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Suez National Museum is situated 2½ km north of Suez Canal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Suez.
Port Suez
Photo: Heb, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Suez is a seaport city 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.
Suez Canal
- Categories: ship canal and body of water
- Location: Suez Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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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: “ছুয়েজ খাল”
- Assamese: “ছুৱেজ খাল”
- Asturian: “Canal de Suez”
- Awadhi: “स्वेज नहर”
- Azerbaijani: “Süveyş kanalı”
- Balinese: “Terusan Suéz”
- Bashkir: “Әс-Сүәйс каналы”
- Bashkir: “Суэц каналы”
- Bashkir: “Сүәйс каналы”
- Basque: “Suezko kanala”
- Bavarian: “Sueskanal”
- Belarusian: “Суэцкі канал”
- Bengali: “সুয়েজ খাল”
- Betawi: “Susukan Sués”
- Bhojpuri: “क़नात-अल-सुवैस”
- Bhojpuri: “स्वेज़ कनाल”
- Bhojpuri: “स्वेज नहर”
- Bhojpuri: “स्वेज़ 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 Kurdish: “نۆکەندی سوێز”
- Chechen: “Суэцан татол”
- Chinese: “Suez Ūn-hô”
- Chinese: “苏伊士运河”
- Chinese: “苏彝士运河”
- 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: “Suez”
- Czech: “Suezský kanál”
- 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”
- Galician: “Canal de Suez”
- Gan Chinese: “蘇伊士運河”
- Georgian: “სუეცის არხი”
- German: “Sues-Kanal”
- German: “Sueskanal”
- German: “Suez-Kanal”
- German: “Suezkanal”
- Greek: “Διώρυγα Σουέζ”
- Greek: “Διώρυγα του Σουέζ”
- Guarani: “y hasaha Suez”
- Guarani: “ypo’i Suez”
- Guarani: “yrape Suez”
- Guarani: “Yrape Suez”
- Gujarati: “સુએઝ નહેર”
- Hausa: “Suez canal”
- Hebrew: “תעלת סואץ”
- Hindi: “स्वेज़ नहर”
- Hungarian: “Kanát asz-Szuvajsz”
- Hungarian: “Qanāt al-Suways”
- 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”
- Irish: “Canáil Suez”
- Italian: “canale di Suez”
- Italian: “Canale di Suez”
- Italian: “Qanāt al-Sūwais”
- Italian: “قناة السويس”
- 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”
- 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”
- Neapolitan: “Canale ‘e 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 de Suez”
- 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”
- 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: “Suez Canal”
- Swedish: “Suezkanalen”
- Swiss German: “Sueskanaal”
- Tagalog: “Kanal ng Suez”
- Tagalog: “Kanal Suez”
- Tagalog: “Suez Canal”
- Tamil: “குனாத் அல் சுவைஸ்”
- Tamil: “சுயஸ் கால்வாய்”
- Tatar: “Сүәеш каналы”
- Telugu: “సూయజ్ కాలువ”
- Thai: “คลองสุเอซ”
- Tosk Albanian: “Sueskanal”
- Tsonga: “Mugerho wa Suez”
- Turkish: “Süveyş Kanalı”
- Turkmen: “Sues kanaly”
- Ukrainian: “Суецький канал”
- 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”
- “Canale de Suez”
- “Soeca kanals”
- “स्वेज नहर”
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