Canal Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flo ...

s are human-made structures, built for water control, flood prevention, irrigation, and water transport. Their exact design varies depending upon the local importance of each function. The term 'canal' is often used to describe both human-made canals and river navigations, whether free-flowing waterways, or those with locks and dams or weirs.

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List of canals in Belgium This is a list of canals in Belgium. *Albert Canal *Baudouin Canal *Blankenberg Canal *Blaton-Aat Canal *Bocholt-Herentals Canal *Bossuit-Kortrijk Canal *Bourgogne Canal *Briegden-Neerharen Canal *Bruges–Ostend Canal *Bruges-Sluis Canal *Brusse ...

List of canals in Canada There exists a number of canals in Canada that are used as aqueducts, diversionary channels for power stations, and for shippings. Natural canals A natural canal exists between the Magaguadavic River and Lake Utopia outside St. George, New B ...

History of canals in China The history of canals in China connecting its major rivers and centers of agriculture and population extends from the legendary exploits of Yu the Great in his attempts control the flooding of the Yellow River to the present infrastructure project ...

List of canals in France This is a list of the navigable canals and rivers in France. For reference purposes, all waterways are listed, including many that have been abandoned for navigation, mostly in the period 1925-1955, but some in later years. Although several source ...

List of canals in Germany This is a list of navigable canals that are at least partially located in Germany. The canals are listed here in alphabetic order of the name (without generic). Currently navigable canals Formerly navigable canals Incomplete navigable ...

* List of canals in India * Canals in Italy (category) ** List of Roman canals * List of canals in Ireland *

Canals in the Netherlands Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow u ...

(category) ** Canals of Amsterdam * Canals in Norway (category) * Canals in Pakistan (category) * List of canals in Russia *

Canals in Sweden Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow u ...

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List of canals in Switzerland This is a list of navigable canals that are at least partially located in Switzerland. The canals are listed here in alphabetic order of the name (without generic). Currently navigable canals Formerly navigable canals Incomplete navigable ...

List of canals of the United Kingdom ''Canal''s of the United Kingdom; see also Canals of the United Kingdom. The following list includes some systems that are navigable rivers with sections of canal (e.g. Aire and Calder Navigation) as well as "completely" artificial canals (e. ...

List of canal tunnels in the United Kingdom This is a list of canal tunnels in the United Kingdom. Listed by name Navigatable adits and mine levels An adit is a horizontal entrance to a mine: Listed by canal Grand Union Canal * Blisworth Tunnel, Northamptonshire * Braunston Tunnel, ...

List of canals in the United States The following is a list of canals in the United States: Transportation canals in operation This list includes active canals and artificial waterways that are maintained for use by boats. While some abandoned canals and drainage canals have stret ...

List of canals in Massachusetts This list is intended to contain all significant canals and aqueducts in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA. It includes both vanished waterways and those that still exist. * Blackstone Canal, Grafton * Broad Canal, Cambridge * Broad Brook ...

List of canals in New York This is a list of canals in the state of New York, the artificial waterways built for drainage management or transportation. List The following canals have existed in New York, United States. * Baldwinsville Canal * Black River Canal *Cayuga ...

List of canals in Oregon List of canals in Oregon contains all canals identified by the USGS in the U.S. state of Oregon. The USGS defines a canal as a ''manmade waterway used by watercraft or for drainage, irrigation, mining, or water power (ditch, lateral)''. There a ...

List of canals in Texas Transportation canals *Intracoastal Waterway *Houston Ship Channel * Sabine–Neches Waterway Irrigation canals See Texas Irrigation Canals *Franklin Canal (Texas) * Riverside Canal (El Paso) *American Canal See also *Sheep Creek {{US canals ...

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List of canals

*Chile ** Bío-Bío Canal *Dubai **

Dubai Water Canal Dubai Canal is an artificial water canal unveiled on 2 October 2013 and inaugurated on 9 November 2016. The canal side-walk comprises one shopping centre, four hotels, 450 restaurants, luxury housing, walkways and cycle paths. It is a long projec ...

*Egypt ** Suez Canal *Finland **

Saimaa Canal The Saimaa Canal ( fi, Saimaan kanava; sv, Saima kanal; russian: Сайменский канал) is a transportation canal that connects lake Saimaa with the Gulf of Finland near Vyborg, Russia. The canal was built from 1845 to 1856 and opene ...

*Greece ** Corinthian Canal connected the Gulf of Corinth with the

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea ; tr, Ege Denizi (Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος: "Egéo Pélagos", Turkish: "Ege Denizi" or "Adalar Denizi") is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans ...

, *Pakistan ** Kachhi Canal *Panama **

Panama Canal The Panama Canal ( es, Canal de Panamá, link=no) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a condui ...

*Poland **

Augustów Canal be, Аўгустоўскі канал , image = Bulwar w Augustowie.JPG , image_caption = Augustów Canal in Augustów , original_owner = , engineer = Ignacy Prądzyński , other_engineer = Jan Chrzciciel de Grandvil ...

Bydgoszcz Canal Bydgoszcz Canal (german: Bromberger Kanal) is a canal, 24.7 km long, between the cities of Bydgoszcz and Nakło in Poland, connecting Vistula river with Oder river, through Brda and Noteć rivers (the latter ending in the Warta river whic ...

Elbląg Canal Elbląg Canal (; pl, Kanał Elbląski ; german: Oberländischer Kanal) is a canal in Poland, in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in length, which runs southward from Lake Drużno (connected by the river Elbląg to the Vistula Lagoon), to the river ...

** Danube-Oder-Canal *Romania ** Danube-Black Sea Canal **

Danube–Bucharest Canal The Danube–Bucharest Canal is a long canal project that is planned to link Bucharest, Romania to the Danube via the Argeș River, and ultimately create direct access to the Black Sea via the existing Danube–Black Sea Canal. The earliest pl ...

*Serbia ** Great Bačka Canal ** Little Bačka Canal **

Danube–Tisa–Danube Canal Danube– Tisa–Danube Canal (DTD) ( sr, Канал Дунав-Тиса-Дунав, Kanal Dunav-Tisa-Dunav) is a canal system in Serbia. It is a unique hydro-engineering system for flood control and hydrotechnical management, amelioration, f ...

*Spain ** Canal de Castilla ** Canal del Duero **

Canal de Isabel II Canal de Isabel II (CYII) is the only company that manages the water supplies for Madrid, Spain. It is owned by the Autonomous Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; es, Comunidad de Madrid ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communiti ...

** Canal Imperial de Aragón *Turkmenistan ** Qaraqum Canal *Vietnam ** Vĩnh Tế Canal