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The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to which body of water?
Answer: B
Correct answer: The Red Sea
The Suez Canal cuts across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt to join the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, and through it the Indian Ocean. Opened in 1869, it removed the need to sail around the Cape of Good Hope and cut the voyage from Europe to Asia by thousands of kilometres. It is a sea-level canal with no locks, since the two seas differ little in height - which is what makes it far simpler in engineering terms than the Panama Canal, where ships must be lifted over an isthmus. It was nationalised by Egypt in 1956, precipitating the Suez Crisis, and remains one of the busiest and most strategically significant waterways in the world; its blockage by a grounded container ship in 2021 disrupted global trade within days. The Black Sea is reached from the Mediterranean through the Dardanelles and Bosporus, and the Caspian is entirely landlocked.
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