Terusan Suez

Terusan Suez (bahasa Arab, Qanā al-Suways), merupakan terusan kapal sepanjang 163 km (118 mil) yang terletak di Mesir, menghubungkan Port Said (Būr Sa'īd) di Laut Tengah dengan Suez (al-Suways) di Laut Merah. Dibuka tahun 1870. Dibangun atas prakarsa insinyur Prancis yang bernama Ferdinand Vicomte de Lesseps.

The Suez Canal (Arabic, Qanā al-Suways), west of the Sinai Peninsula, forms a 163 km (118 miles) ship canal in Egypt between Port Said (Būr Sa'īd) on the Mediterranean and Suez (al-Suways) on the Red Sea.

The canal allows water transport from Europe to Asia without circumnavigating Africa. Before the construction of the canal, some transport was conducted by offloading ships and carrying the goods overland between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.

The canal consists of two parts, north and south of the Great Bitter Lake, linking the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Suez.

Foto Terusan Suez dari orbit Bumi, kebaikan NASA.

Lihat juga

• wikisource:Constantinople Convention of the Suez Canal
• Pharaoh (historical novel by Bolesław Prus, incorporating motifs of an ancient "Suez Canal").

Pranala luar

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• Darius the Great's Suez Inscriptions
• Constantinople Convention of the Suez Canal, 1888
• El Ferdan railway bridge
• Encyclopaedia of the Orient: Suez Canal
• Parting the Desert by Zachary Karabell