The Suez Canal.

4.8% of total world oil pass through Suez canal

The Panama Canal is owned today by China. We know the Panama Canal's ownership caused many problems in the past and a treaty was signed in 1977 between the U.S. and Panama. At the end of 1999 however, it was handed over to China.

Britain conquered Egypt and turned it into a british protectorate

Britain and France. The two super powers at the time.

The Suez Canal was built to create a short cut for shipping sailing between the Indian ocean to the North Atlantic Ocean,avoiding the longer voyage around the Cape of Good Hope, or the more hazardous Cape Horn passage.

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While aircraft carriers routinely transited the Panama Canal in years past, carriers built after WW II cannot fit through the Panama Canal as it exists today. The new locks being built now are wide enough to fit the lower part of today's supercarriers. However, their much wider superstructure width will prevent them from using the Canal. At their widest, a supercarrier is about 257 feet wide and would hit other structures within the new locks. Below is a link that describes a WW II aircraft carrier's service life and references a Panama Canal transit.

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv15-randolph/cv15-randolph.html

The Suez Crisis was a Superpower stand-off that took place from late 1956 to early '57. The Egyptian military ruler, Colonel Abdel Nasser, did not think it fair that Western nation should have free access to use the Suez Canal in order to import oil from the Middle East, so he imposed a system of tariffs upon foreign shipping using the canal. In response to this, Israel launched an invasion of the Egyptian Sinai on 29th October 1956, resulting in both Britain and France issuing a ceasefire ultimatm, which was ignored. The British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, then pledged to come to Israel's assistance and coerced the French Government to do the same via diplomatic pressure by the British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. Thus on 5th November a huge joint Anglo-French invasion of the Canal Zone was undertaken, supported by Israel- it achieved it's objectives in defeating Egypt and was intended to go on to lead to an Egyptian counter-revolution that would topple Nasser's Government, but this failed to materialise. The Soviet Union then threatened to intervene to support Egypt unless the occupying forces withdrew, backed up by Arab countries who began an oil embargo of Britain and France, leading to fuel shortages in these nations and petrol rationing. Although France was not then a part of NATO, Britain WAS, and a Soviet attack upon the UK would have inevitably obliged the other nations to support the British under the terms of the North Atlantic Treaty- also, any Russian attacks upon Britain would have included strikes upon US air bases stationed in the country, which Washington would have seen as a direct attack upon the US itself. A serious threat of Superpower conflict, that could have escalated into a nuclear war, hung over the world between the end of '56 and the beginning of '57- it was diffused, however, by US pressure upon the British Government, with President Eisenhower threatening to damage British financial strength by selling off it's pound sterling bonds. This resulted in the humiliating withdrawal of Anglo-French forces, and the resignation of Anthony Eden in March 1957, who was replaced by his Chancellor, Harold MacMillan. Israel had achieved some of it's objectives, such as achieving freedom of navigation through the Straits of Tiran, which Egypt had blocked to Israeli shipping for the previous seven years, but Nasser's Government remained in power and the incident may have emboldened the USSR to crush the Hungarian Uprising, which began at about the same time as the Suez Crisis began.

The Suez Crisis is seen as one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, at which global nuclear war seemed for a while to be imminent and even probable.

He did it because he needed the Revenue, but more importantly because he wanted to assert Egyptian sovereignty over all areas of Egypt and reject Western Influences.

Suez Canal has reduced India's distance from Europe.

The Suez Canal excavation began in April 25, 1859 and was open to navigation in November 17, 1869.

...by 5000 miles.

The Suez canal was built to create a short cut for shipping sailing between the Indian Ocean to the North Atlantic Ocean, avoiding the longer voyage around the Cape of Good Hope, or the more hazardous Cape Horn passage.

Yes, and as a full-scale Ship canal- not something for narrow-gauge ( in comparison) Barges, such as the Erie Canal and others which used draft animals- often Mules- Draft animals in both senses ( ask the Army?) The Suez canal does not have locks- it did= may still have movable bridges for personnel to access the gates- and for traffic control ( like toll gates on turnpikes) but in operation, ships run under their own power- a Canal Pilot has the Conn- giving the steering orders- and so it goes- no locks needed as it is a sea-level canal.

Answer The Suez Canal is in the Sinai Peninsula. It connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. It is rather strange to go through the canal, you feel like you are sailing through a desert!

I believe it was France and the United States.

The Suez canal located in Egypt . It is said that the reason gas prices are going up is because of the current fued going on in Libya and Egypt . But that's a theory .

Under Necho II, a canal was built between the Pelusian branch of the Nile and the northern end of the Bitter Lakes. After having been neglected, it was rebuilt by the Persian ruler, Darius I. This canal is said to have been extended to the Red Sea by Ptolemy II Philadelphus, abandoned during the early Roman rule, but rebuilt again by Trajan.  Over the next several centuries, it once again was abandoned and sometimes dredged by various rulers for various but limited purposes. Amr Ibn el-As rebuilt the canal after the Islamic takeover of Egypt creating a new supply line from Cairo, but was closed a final time to cut off supplies to insurgents located in the Delta. The first efforts to build a modern canal came from the Egypt expedition of Napoleon Bonaparte, who hoped the project would create a devastating trade problem for the English. Vicomte Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps, who ended up founding the Universal Company of the Maritime Suez Canal, funded, in 1858, to build the canal.

It does not connect Asia to Africa. The Suez Canal is a short-cut pathway from the ships carrying goods from Europe and America to the Eastern part of the world. It provides less costs for exporting goods and less time for travelling long distance.

Yes, by definition an artificial waterway such as the Panama or Suez canals. Some canals have a mixture of man-made and existing waterway features, such as the Saint Lawrence Seaway- note it is not called a Canal. the French term this type of Canal a (Nautostrade)- lit Nautical Road.

Sinai Peninsula

The Suez Canal is in southwest Asia/northeast Africa.