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Bookmark or Share- Grand Canal | China, History, Length, & Facts | BritannicaGrand Canal, series of waterways in eastern and northern China that link Hangzhou in Zhejiang province with Beijing. Some 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) in length, it is the world’s longest constructed waterway, though, strictly speaking, not all of it is a canal.
- Grand Canal (China) - WikipediaThe Grand Canal is the longest canal or artificial river in the world [1] and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its main artery, known to the Chinese as the Jing–Hang or Beijing–Hangzhou Grand Canal, is reckoned to extend for 1,776 km (1,104 mi) and is divided into 6 main sections.
- Grand Canal | Description, Information, History, Bridges, & FactsThe Grand Canal, Venice, at night. Grand Canal, main waterway of Venice, Italy, following a natural channel that traces a reverse-S course from San Marco Basilica to Santa Chiara Church and divides the city into two parts. Gondolas on the Grand Canal in Venice.
- Grand Canal (Venice) - WikipediaThe Grand Canal (Italian: Canal Grande [kaˌnal ˈɡrande]; Venetian: Canałaso rarely Canal Grando) is a channel in Venice, Italy. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city.
- The Grand Canal - UNESCO World Heritage CentreThe Grand Canal is a vast waterway system in the north-eastern and central-eastern plains of China, running from Beijing in the north to Zhejiang province in the south. Constructed in sections from the 5th century BC onwards, it was conceived as a unified means of communication for the Empire for the first time in the 7th century AD (Sui dynasty).
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