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Write six characteristics of the Panama Canal.

Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution : Panama canal has <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/shortened-3026911" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SHORTENED">SHORTENED</a> the distance between eastern and western coasts of North America. This canal connects the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/atlantic-384933" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ATLANTIC">ATLANTIC</a> Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. Its economic <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/significance-1207358" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SIGNIFICANCE">SIGNIFICANCE</a> are: <br/> (i) The canal is about 72 <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/km-1064498" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about KM">KM</a>. long and involves a very deep cutting for a length of 12 km. <br/> (ii) It has a six lock system and ships <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/cross-939411" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CROSS">CROSS</a> the different levels (26 m up and down) through these locks before entering the Gulf of Panama. <br/> (iii) It shortens the distance between New York and San Francisco by 13,000 km by sea.<br/>(iv) Likewise the distance between Western Europe and the West-coast of U.S.A., and North-eastern and Central U.S.A. and East and South-east Asia is shortened.<br/> (v) The economic significance of this Canal is relatively less than that of the Suez. However, it is vital to the economies of Latin America.</body></html>


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