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Who constructed Suez Canal ?
APyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky
BVoin Rimsky-Korsakov
CFyodor Litke
DFerdinand de Lesseps
Correct answer
D. Ferdinand de Lesseps
Explanation
In 1854, Ferdinand de Lesseps, the former French consul to Cairo, secured an agreement with the Ottoman governor of Egypt to build a canal 100 miles across the Isthmus of Suez.