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The Corinth Canal is too narrow for modern ships
Its channel is about 24 metres wide at water level, so most commercial vessels cannot use it The canal cut through the isthmus of Corinth in Greece and opened in 1893. It saves a long sail around the Peloponnese but has no locks, since the two ends sit at sea level. Landslides and its width have kept it largely a tourist and small-craft route. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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The Corinth Canal is too narrow for modern ships: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Its channel is about 24 metres wide at water level, so most commercial vessels cannot use it. The figure is taken from Met Office, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a world geography fact?
- Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.