🏞️ Longest artificial canal

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Built and rebuilt from the 5th century BC onward, the Grand Canal is the longest and oldest canal still in use — a continuous waterway that bound the rice-rich south to the capital in the north.

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This record belongs to our Canals collection, where every canals in the world is catalogued.

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