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After ten years of construction, the Panama Canal was completed in 1914.
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France and the USA
Because it was called the Panama Canal
It is the Panama Canal. It was originally built by the US. However Panama just completed a major improvement of the canal.
The US purchased the Panama Canal from France in 1903 for $40 million.
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Panama is the only country the canal passes through. There was initially interest (a bit of which remains to this day) of building the canal through Nicaragua - there are three proposals being 'floated' around in Nicaragua currently to build a new trans-oceanic passing, but the Panama Canal only goes through Panama.
The state in the US closest to the Panama Canal is Florida. The southern tip of Florida is about 880 miles from the Panama Canal.
OBAMA.............. NO JUST KIDDING it was Roosevelt
No, France sold the rights to the Panama Canal to the US.