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Name of Canal	Length	Connection	Country
Grand Canal	1,776 Km	Beijing-Hebei-Shandong-Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Hagzhou. The Grand Canal in China was opened in 485BC to join the main rivers and it was extended over the centuries. It is still used to move goods and people because the roads in China are very rough and bumpy. Most canals, like Suez and Panama, were built to shorten journeys for shipping. Another canal that shortens a sea journey is the Kiel canal in Germany. The journey from the North Sea to the Baltic was cut from 480km. to just 98km., when it opened in 1895.	China
Qaraqum Canal	1,375 Km	Amu Darya-Karakum Desert	Russia
Saimaa Canal	814 Km	Saima-Gulf of Finland	Russia
Eurasia Canal	700 Km	Black Sea-Kuma Manych Depression	Russia
Manych Ship Canal	700 km	Black Sea-Caspian Sea	Russia
Erie canal	584 km	Albany-New York-Buffalo; The Erie Canal was built between 1817 and 1819 and began operating in 1825. It connected the towns of Albany and Buffalo. Albany and New York were already connected by the Hudson River, while Buffalo afforded access to the Great Lakes. One of the effects of the Erie Canal was to stimulate the economic growth of New York City, resulting in its becoming larger and more important than Boston and Philadelphia.	USA
Grand Union Canal	461 Km	London-Birmingham	England
Nara Canal	364 km	Sukkur Barrage-Khaipur, Sanghar-Districts	Pakistan
Rhone–Rhine Canal	349 km	Rhine-Rhone, North Sea-Mediterranean	France
Marne–Rhine Canal	313 Km	Rhine, Marne, Meuse River, Moselle River, Canal des houillères de la Sarre	France
Leeds and Liverpool Canal	204 Km	Leeds-Liverpool	England
Suez Canal	193.5 Km	Mediterranean Sea-Red Sea. When the canal was opened in 1869, it shortened the route between the United Kingdom and India by 9,700km. The canal was the busiest inter-ocean canal in the world until it closed during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Tankers carrying petroleum and petroleum products had accounted for about 70% of the total tonnage going through the canal. Egypt reopened the canal in 1975. The canal stretches north and south across the Isthmus of Suez, between the cities of port said and Suez. It had no locks because there is no great difference between the levels of the Red and Mediterranean Seas. At present about 25,000 ships pass through the canal every year. The Suez Canal is called "ganatu s-suways" in Arabic	Egypt
Gota Canal	190 Km	Gothenburg	Swedan
The Kiel Canal	98 Kms	Connects North Sea and the Baltic. It is in northern Germany and is 103 m. wide and 11 m. deep. It is spanned by seven high-level bridges and it is the safest, shortest and cheapest route between the two seas. It was built between 1887 and 1895 for the German navy because it eliminated the necessity for its ships to travel northwards around the Danish peninsula. It was enlarged from 1907 to 1914. It remains an important route for Baltic shipping, especially in the months of winter when both the North Seas and the Baltic Sea are very stormy.
Panama Canal	81kms	Connects  Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It ranks as one of the greatest engineering achievements in the world. Completed in 1914, the canal shortened a ship's voyage between New York city and San Francisco to less than 8,370 kilometres. Previously, ships making this trip had to travel around South America - a distance of more than 20,900 kilometres. The United States built the Panama Canal at a cost of about 380 million U.S. dollars. Thousands of labourers worked on it for about 10 years, using steam shovels and dredgers to cut through jungles, hills and swamps. They had to deal with such tropical diseases as malaria and yellow fever. The Panama Canal extends 81.63 kilometres from Limon Bay on the Atlantic Coast to the Bay of Panama on the Pacific Ocean.