Container ship entering the Suez Canal from the Gulf of Suez near the town of Suez Egypt

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The Suez Canal west of the Sinai Peninsula, is a 163-km-long 101 miles and, at its narrowest point, 300-m-wide 984 ft maritime canal in Egypt between Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea, and Suez on the Red Sea. The canal allows two-way north to south water transport between Europe and Asia without circumnavigation of Africa. Before the opening of the canal in 1869,

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Size: 5433px × 3613px
Location: Egypt
Photo credit: © Peter Horree / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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