Canal Name Generator

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Generate names for canals and man-made waterways, from Wrenford Navigation and Saltmarsh Cut to Lamplighters' Canal and Marineris Grand Canal. Real canals such as Erie Canal (New York) carry their place in parentheses; the rest are invented on real naming patterns.

About canal names

Canals are named for what they do. English canals often name the two towns or rivers they join, as in Leeds and Liverpool or Kennet and Avon. A Navigation is normally a river made passable for boats, a Cut is an old word for a dug channel, and an Arm or Branch is a short spur. American canals of the canal era joined rivers and lakes the same way, as in Ohio and Erie.

Other languages bring their own form words. In Dutch a gracht is a city canal and a vaart is a channel dug for boats, Venice calls all but a few of its largest channels rii, French names start with Canal de or Canal du, and German ones end in Kanal. The list also covers ship canals, irrigation laterals and fen drains, fantasy city canals named for trades, guilds and saints, and canals for Mars colonies and orbital cities.

About a quarter of the 1,000 names are real, and each real canal is followed by its place in parentheses: Suez Canal (Egypt), Herengracht (Amsterdam), Canal du Midi (France). A few marked (old maps of Mars) are names that nineteenth-century astronomers gave to the lines they drew on the planet. Every name without parentheses is invented on real naming patterns, using made-up or generic places.

How to choose canal names

  • Pick the form word for the job: Navigation for a river made passable, Cut for a short dug channel, Arm or Branch for a dead-end spur, Ship Canal for a waterway that takes seagoing vessels.
  • For a through route, name both ends. Wrenford and Harrowmere Canal tells a reader what the canal was built to join, so swap in two towns from your own map.
  • In a city, name canals for the people who worked along them, as in Dyers' Cut, Rio dei Liutai or Zeilmakersgracht. A trade name also tells you what the quays beside it look and smell like.
  • A name with a place in parentheses is a real canal. Use those as reference points or for stories set in real places, and leave the parentheses off when you letter the name on a map.
  • Give a long official name a short local one as well. People who live beside a canal tend to call it the Cut, the Old Line or just the Canal.

Frequently asked questions

Which names in the list are real canals?

The ones followed by a place in parentheses, such as Erie Canal (New York), Leeds and Liverpool Canal (England) and Canal Grande (Venice). They make up about a quarter of the list. Names without parentheses are invented, but an invented name can still coincide with a small real waterway somewhere, so check a map before you treat one as fact or as fiction.

What is the difference between a canal, a navigation and a cut?

A canal is a channel dug from end to end. A navigation is usually a river made passable with locks, weirs and short dug sections, and a cut is an old word for a dug channel, often a short one or a bypass. The list uses all three, as in Ashby Vale Canal, Wrenford Navigation and Saltmarsh Cut.

How do Dutch, Venetian, French and German canal names work?

Dutch names end in gracht for a city canal or vaart for a boat channel, Venetian names start with Rio for the small canals, French names start with Canal de or Canal du, and German names end in Kanal. Invented examples in the list include Lantaarngracht, Rio delle Sette Lune, Canal du Val-Clair and Fischerkanal.

Can I use these names for a fantasy city or a Mars colony?

Yes. The fantasy share is named for trades, guilds and saints, as in Lamplighters' Canal, Bellfounders' Cut and Saint Orrin's Canal. The science fiction share has names such as Marineris Grand Canal and Spinward Canal for Mars settlements and orbital cities.

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A: 35 names

  • Abbess Canal
  • Abbots Wimble Canal
  • Acequia de la Huerta
  • Acequia de los Álamos
  • Acequia del Molino
  • Acequia Madre (Santa Fe)
  • Acidalia Northern Waterway
  • Aeroponic Mist Channel
  • Agathodaemon (old maps of Mars)
  • Ainsmoor Summit Level
  • Aire and Calder Navigation (Yorkshire)

A, continued

  • Albertkanaal (Belgium)
  • Alchemists' Sluice
  • Alkali Flat Wasteway
  • All-American Canal (California)
  • Almoners' Channel
  • Alter Schleusenkanal
  • Amazonis Long Line
  • Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal (Netherlands)
  • Antispinward Waterway
  • Anvil Gate Canal
  • Apothecaries' Channel
  • Apple Mesa Ditch

A, continued

  • Aqueduct Mills Canal
  • Arboretum Loop Waterway
  • Arcadia Ice Line
  • Argyre Ring Canal
  • Ark Ship Midline Canal
  • Ash Lagoon Cut
  • Ashby Canal (English Midlands)
  • Ashby Vale Canal
  • Ashlar Cross Canal
  • Augusta Canal (Georgia)
  • Augustów Canal (Poland and Belarus)
  • Axis Lock Channel

B: 53 names

  • Bakers' Dozen Cut
  • Ballast Ring Channel
  • Bargemasters' Canal
  • Barrowmead Old Line
  • Basingstoke Canal (Hampshire and Surrey)
  • Baťa Canal (Czech Republic)
  • Bayou Lateral
  • Bayou Perdrix Canal
  • Beam Engine Arm
  • Bega Canal (Romania and Serbia)
  • Beggars' Ditch
  • Beiaardrei
  • Bellfounders' Cut

B, continued

  • Bench Mesa Feeder
  • Bernsteinkanal
  • Bicentennial Waterway
  • Birchfold and Tewlock Canal
  • Birmingham and Fazeley Canal (England)
  • Bishop Corley's Cut
  • Black Lantern Canal
  • Black Oak Slackwater
  • Blackfen Lode
  • Blackstone Canal (New England)
  • Blackwater Canal
  • Blackwharf Ship Canal
  • Blessed Tobiah's Canal

B, continued

  • Bloemgracht (Amsterdam)
  • Boekbindersgracht
  • Boilermakers' Arm
  • Bonded Stores Cut
  • Bonepickers' Canal
  • Bookbinders' Water
  • Borealis Meltline
  • Botanic Gardens Canal
  • Böttcherfleet
  • Brackenwell and Ravenstow Navigation
  • Brauerfleet
  • Breakwater Channel
  • Brewers' Run

B, continued

  • Brewery Arm
  • Brickfield Arm
  • Bridgewater Canal (North West England)
  • Bridgwater and Taunton Canal (Somerset)
  • Brindlecombe and Oxenholt Navigation
  • Brine Line
  • Broadwater Level
  • Brouwersgracht (Amsterdam)
  • Buckingham Canal (India)
  • Buffalo Bend Sidecut
  • Bulk Terminal Canal
  • Burwell Lode (Cambridgeshire)
  • Butchers' Gut
  • Bydgoszcz Canal (Poland)

C: 173 names

  • Calder and Hebble Navigation (Yorkshire)
  • Caldon Canal (Staffordshire)
  • Caledonian Canal (Scotland)
  • California Aqueduct (California)
  • Canal Bradbury
  • Canal d'Ille-et-Rance (Brittany)
  • Canal d'Orléans (France)
  • Canal de Beaurivage
  • Canal de Berry (France)
  • Canal de Bourgogne (Burgundy)
  • Canal de Brévigny à Montclos
  • Canal de Briare (France)
  • Canal de Castilla (Spain)
  • Canal de Châteauclair

C, continued

  • Canal de Garonne (France)
  • Canal de Isabel II (Madrid)
  • Canal de jonction de Pont-Aubert
  • Canal de l'Abbaye-aux-Cygnes
  • Canal de l'Écluse-Rouge
  • Canal de l'Île-Verte
  • Canal de l'Ourcq (Paris region)
  • Canal de la Belle-Étoile
  • Canal de la Bruche (Alsace)
  • Canal de la Fontaine-Dorée
  • Canal de la Garenne
  • Canal de la Haute-Vigne
  • Canal de la Lune-Rousse
  • Canal de la Marne au Rhin (France)

C, continued

  • Canal de la Reine-Blanche
  • Canal de la Robine (Languedoc)
  • Canal de la Somme (Picardy)
  • Canal de la Tour-aux-Corbeaux
  • Canal de la Vèze à la Lourne
  • Canal de Nantes à Brest (Brittany)
  • Canal de Port-Lumière
  • Canal de Riego del Llano
  • Canal de Roanne à Digoin (France)
  • Canal de Saint-Quentin (France)
  • Canal de Sainte-Odile-des-Eaux
  • Canal del Dique (Colombia)
  • Canal des Ardennes (France)
  • Canal des Chapeliers
  • Canal des Cordeliers

C, continued

  • Canal des Deux-Moulins
  • Canal des Halles-au-Blé
  • Canal des Hirondelles
  • Canal des Lavandières
  • Canal des Maraîchers
  • Canal des Mariniers
  • Canal des Pangalanes (Madagascar)
  • Canal des Papetiers
  • Canal des Quatre-Vents
  • Canal des Sauniers
  • Canal des Trois-Abbayes
  • Canal des Verriers
  • Canal du Bois-Flotté
  • Canal du Centre (Belgium)

C, continued

  • Canal du Chevalier-Noir
  • Canal du Grand-Cerf
  • Canal du Loing (France)
  • Canal du Midi (France)
  • Canal du Nivernais (Burgundy)
  • Canal du Petit-Marais
  • Canal du Pont-Levant
  • Canal du Rhône à Sète (Languedoc)
  • Canal du Rhône au Rhin (France)
  • Canal du Roi-Soleil
  • Canal du Val-Clair
  • Canal du Vieux-Lavoir
  • Canal Grande (Venice)
  • Canal Imperial de Aragón (Spain)
  • Canal latéral à la Loire (France)

C, continued

  • Canal latéral à la Vèze
  • Canal of a Hundred Bridges
  • Canal of Falling Petals
  • Canal of Quiet Mercies
  • Canal of Saint Ilsabet
  • Canal of Sighing Reeds
  • Canal of the Broken Siege
  • Canal of the Drowned Saint
  • Canal of the First Landing
  • Canal of the Free Bargemen
  • Canal of the Last Coronation
  • Canal of the Long Night
  • Canal of the Nine Guilds
  • Canal of the Pharaohs (ancient Egypt)

C, continued

  • Canal of the Seven Bells
  • Canal of the Sleeping Swans
  • Canal of the Weeping Lanterns
  • Canal of Whispering Masks
  • Canal Park Waterway
  • Canal Saint-Denis (Paris)
  • Canal Saint-Martin (Paris)
  • Canale Cavour (Piedmont)
  • Canale dei Cigni
  • Canale dei Gelsi
  • Canale dei Pescatori di Perle
  • Canale dei Sette Mulini
  • Canale del Faro Bianco
  • Canale del Giglio d'Oro

C, continued

  • Canale del Sale Bianco
  • Canale della Giudecca (Venice)
  • Canale della Luna
  • Canale della Serenata
  • Canale delle Lanterne
  • Canale delle Tre Fontane
  • Canale di Cannaregio (Venice)
  • Canale di Porto Sereno
  • Canale Villoresi (Lombardy)
  • Canaletto delle Monache
  • Canalport Feeder
  • Candlemakers' Cut
  • Candlemas Channel
  • Candlewyke and Rushbottom Navigation
  • Cane Row Canal

C, continued

  • Cannery Channel
  • Canyon Rim Flume
  • Cape Cod Canal (Massachusetts)
  • Cape Verrin Ship Canal
  • Cathedral Close Canal
  • Cayuga-Seneca Canal (New York)
  • Cedar Fork and Elk Lick Canal
  • Centennial Canal
  • Cerberus (old maps of Mars)
  • Ceres Brine Canal
  • Chain Gate Channel
  • Chainmakers' Canal
  • Chalkfield Priors Canal
  • Chambly Canal (Quebec)

C, continued

  • Champlain Canal (New York)
  • Chandlers' Water
  • Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation (Essex)
  • Chenango Canal (New York)
  • Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (USA)
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Maryland)
  • Chesterfield Canal (England)
  • Chestnut Ridge Division
  • Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (Illinois)
  • Christianshavns Kanal (Copenhagen)
  • Chryse Lowland Waterway
  • Cinderholme Arm
  • Clockmakers' Cut
  • Cloister Water
  • Coachella Canal (California)

C, continued

  • Coalmaster's Arm
  • Cobblers' Cut
  • Cobbold's Cut
  • Coin Street Canal
  • Cold Store Arm
  • Coldharrow and Stonepenny Canal
  • Colliery Branch Canal
  • Colony Charter Waterway
  • Colorado River Aqueduct (California)
  • Container Port Seaway
  • Coopers' Canal
  • Copperworks Navigation
  • Corbenhurst and Fallowden Navigation
  • Corduroy Road Sidecut

C, continued

  • Corinth Canal (Greece)
  • Coronation Ship Canal
  • Cotton Mills Arm
  • Cottonwood Lateral
  • Counter Drain at Sedgeholme Lot
  • Counting House Water
  • Coupure (Ghent)
  • Coventry Canal (English Midlands)
  • Cranmoor Lode
  • Crinan Canal (Scotland)
  • Cuckmarsh Cut
  • Cumberfield and Northern Canal
  • Customs House Canal
  • Cydonia Terrace Canal
  • Cylinder Sea Outlet

D: 27 names

  • Damse Vaart (Flanders)
  • Date Palm Lateral
  • Datteln-Hamm-Kanal (Ruhr)
  • Dawnline Channel
  • Deep Cut at Chestnut Summit
  • Deer Lick Slackwater Navigation
  • Deimos Reach
  • Delaware and Hudson Canal (USA)
  • Delaware and Raritan Canal (New Jersey)
  • Delta Cross Channel (California)
  • Delta-Mendota Canal (California)
  • Dijver (Bruges)
  • Dismal Swamp Canal (Virginia and North Carolina)

D, continued

  • Distillery Cut
  • Diversion Dam Canal
  • Docking Ring Waterway
  • Dome Seven Circulator
  • Donaukanal (Vienna)
  • Dortmund-Ems-Kanal (Germany)
  • Dotonbori (Osaka)
  • Dovewarren Canal
  • Dredgers' Channel
  • Dry Gulch Flume
  • Duke's Delight Canal
  • Dunmarsh and Hobbleton Canal
  • Dunnock Green Branch
  • Dyers' Cut

E: 30 names

  • Eagle Bluff and Lower Rapids Canal
  • East Quay Ship Canal
  • East Terrace Canal
  • Easter Garrow Canal
  • Eel-Sellers' Water
  • Eelcatcher's Lode
  • Egelantiersgracht (Amsterdam)
  • Elbe-Havel-Kanal (Germany)
  • Elbe-Lübeck-Kanal (Germany)
  • Elbe-Seitenkanal (Germany)
  • Elbląg Canal (Poland)
  • Elderthorpe Cut
  • Elderthorpe Old Line
  • Elmscott Arm
  • Elysium Meltwater Canal

E, continued

  • Embankment Line
  • Embercote Loop
  • Emberley Navigation
  • Ems-Jade-Kanal (Lower Saxony)
  • Engine Arm (West Midlands)
  • Engine House Drain
  • Equatorial Trunk Waterway
  • Erewash Canal (English Midlands)
  • Erie Canal (New York)
  • Estuary Bypass Channel
  • Eumenides (old maps of Mars)
  • Euphrates (old maps of Mars)
  • Europa Thaw Canal
  • Exchange Square Canal
  • Exeter Ship Canal (Devon)

F: 30 names

  • Fährmannskanal
  • Fallowden Branch
  • Falls of the Tennick Canal
  • Farmers' and Mechanics' Canal
  • Farmington Canal (Connecticut)
  • Fenhallow and Great Sorrel Canal
  • Ferrymen's Reach
  • Finowkanal (Brandenburg)
  • Fischerkanal
  • Fish Market Canal
  • Fishwives' Water
  • Five Rise Canal
  • Flashwater Branch
  • Floodway Canal
  • Flößerkanal

F, continued

  • Flower Market Water
  • Forgewater Channel
  • Fort Calloway Feeder
  • Fort Pruett Portage Canal
  • Forth and Clyde Canal (Scotland)
  • Forty Foot Drain (Fens)
  • Fossa Carolina (medieval Bavaria)
  • Fossdyke Navigation (Lincolnshire)
  • Founders' Canal
  • Founders' Park Canal
  • Frederiksholms Kanal (Copenhagen)
  • Friant-Kern Canal (California)
  • Friendship Canal
  • Frithlea and Cobbold Canal
  • Fullers' Sluice

G: 47 names

  • Gallows Dock Channel
  • Ganges Canal (India)
  • Ganymede Under-Ice Canal
  • Garden City Canal
  • Garrow Navigation
  • Gasworks Cut
  • Gauging Lock Cut
  • Generation Deck Waterway
  • Gerberfleet
  • Ghostlight Water
  • Gilders' Water

G, continued

  • Glasblazersgracht
  • Glassblowers' Reach
  • Glassmakers' Arm
  • Gliwice Canal (Poland)
  • Glockengießerkanal
  • Gloucester and Sharpness Canal (Gloucestershire)
  • Goldbekkanal (Hamburg)
  • Goldsmiths' Mile
  • Gorseling Heath Canal
  • Gosling Fen Main Drain
  • Göta Canal (Sweden)
  • Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn)

G, continued

  • Grain Elevator Canal
  • Grain Tithe Canal
  • Granary Dock Canal
  • Grand Canal (China)
  • Grand Canal (Ireland)
  • Grand Canal (Versailles)
  • Grand Meridian Canal
  • Grand Occidental Ship Canal
  • Grand Prairie Canal
  • Grand Union Canal (England)
  • Grand Western Canal (Devon)
  • Grange Hall Ditch

G, continued

  • Graving Dock Cut
  • Graywater Trunk Seven
  • Greasewood Main Canal
  • Great Bend and Tidewater Canal
  • Great Sorrel Branch
  • Greenbelt Waterway
  • Greenhouse Row Canal
  • Greenrot Ditch
  • Griboyedov Canal (Saint Petersburg)
  • Grindlecombe Edge and Pyeworth Canal
  • Groenerei (Bruges)
  • Guildhall Canal

H: 33 names

  • Hab Ring Coolant Canal
  • Halfpenny Cut
  • Hammerfall Sluice
  • Harbor Link Canal
  • Harborfront Channel
  • Harlan's Mill Race Canal
  • Harmony Hollow Feeder
  • Harrowmere Junction Canal
  • Hartsmere Valley Canal
  • Hatters' Reach
  • Hazelscar Bank Canal

H, continued

  • Headgate Flume
  • Hellas Basin Aqueduct
  • Hemlock Falls Hydraulic Canal
  • Hennepin Canal (Illinois)
  • Herengracht (Amsterdam)
  • Heringsfleet
  • Heron Bank Navigation
  • Heronwatch Water
  • Hertford Union Canal (London)
  • Herzog-Ottfried-Kanal
  • Hesslow Junction

H, continued

  • Hexby Magna Canal
  • Hiddekel (old maps of Mars)
  • High Line Canal (Colorado)
  • Highline Lateral
  • Hillside Contour Canal
  • Hollinscar and Tuppingstead Canal
  • Homestead Ditch
  • Horse Bridge Canal
  • Hoxwick Branch
  • Huddersfield Narrow Canal (Pennines)
  • Hydroponics Deck Canal

I: 12 names

  • Ibbmarsh Lode
  • Idle Pound Arm
  • Illinois and Michigan Canal (Illinois)
  • Imperial Ship Canal
  • Independence Waterway
  • Indira Gandhi Canal (India)
  • Inkmakers' Cut
  • Inner Basin Cut
  • Interchange Basin Cut
  • Ironhaven Barge Channel
  • Isebekkanal (Hamburg)
  • Isthmus of Carrow Canal

J: 5 names

  • James River and Kanawha Canal (Virginia)
  • Jubilee Barge Canal
  • Jugglers' Ditch
  • Julianakanaal (Netherlands)
  • Juniper Flat Siphon

K: 27 names

  • Kaarsenmakersgracht
  • Kanaal door de Zilverpolder
  • Kanal am Sieben-Brücken-Tor
  • Kanal der Drei Mühlen
  • Kaneelgracht
  • Kantwerkstersrei
  • Karakum Canal (Turkmenistan)
  • Keizersgracht (Amsterdam)
  • Kennet and Avon Canal (England)
  • Kerzenziehergraben
  • Kestrelby and Wychmoor Junction
  • Khlong Saen Saep (Bangkok)
  • Kiel Canal (Germany)

K, continued

  • King Aldemar's Canal
  • Kingfisher Reach
  • Kingscray Junction Cut
  • Kleiner Lotsenkanal
  • Klokkengietersgracht
  • Kloveniersburgwal (Amsterdam)
  • Kompasgracht
  • Korenbeursgracht
  • Kraken Sluice
  • Kranfleet
  • Kruidnagelgracht
  • Kryukov Canal (Saint Petersburg)
  • Kupferschmiedkanal
  • Küstenkanal (Lower Saxony)

L: 53 names

  • Lacemakers' Mile
  • Lachine Canal (Montreal)
  • Lady of the Eels Canal
  • Lady Venn's Navigation
  • Lake Biwa Canal (Japan)
  • Lake Corliss and Prairie Canal
  • Lake Tolliver Outlet Canal
  • Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle)
  • Lakeshore Link
  • Lamplighters' Canal
  • Lancaster Canal (North West England)
  • Landwehrkanal (Berlin)
  • Lantaarngracht

L, continued

  • Lantern Festival Canal
  • Lantern Row Canal
  • Larkhampton Waterway
  • Lateral No. 7
  • Laternenkanal
  • Lauriergracht (Amsterdam)
  • Lava Tube Aqueduct
  • Leeds and Liverpool Canal (England)
  • Left Bank Main Canal
  • Lehigh Canal (Pennsylvania)
  • Leidsegracht (Amsterdam)
  • Leliegracht (Amsterdam)
  • Leuchtturmkanal

L, continued

  • Levee Borrow Canal
  • Leviathan Gate Canal
  • Lightermen's Cut
  • Lilygate Water
  • Lime Kiln Branch
  • Lime Tree Canal
  • Limehouse Cut (London)
  • Lindengracht (Amsterdam, filled in)
  • Lingqu Canal (China)
  • Little Purlock Canal
  • Llangollen Canal (Wales and England)
  • Lock Keeper's Pound
  • Locktender Hollow Canal

L, continued

  • Locomotive Works Canal
  • Long Level at Harper's Basin
  • Long Reach Level
  • Longpound Level
  • Looiersgracht (Amsterdam)
  • Los Angeles Aqueduct (California)
  • Louisville and Portland Canal (Kentucky)
  • Low Bridge Canal
  • Low Level Outfall Channel
  • Lowell's Promise
  • Lower Dapplemoor Navigation
  • Lower Tansmere Canal
  • Ludwig-Donau-Main-Kanal (Bavaria)
  • Luna Regolith Aqueduct

M: 49 names

  • Macclesfield Canal (Cheshire)
  • Mahmoudiyah Canal (Egypt)
  • Main-Donau-Kanal (Bavaria)
  • Maltings Cut
  • Manchester Ship Canal (England)
  • Maneschijngracht
  • Maplethwaite Navigation
  • Mapmakers' Reach
  • Marina District Canal
  • Marineris Grand Canal
  • Market Square Canal
  • Marlpit Hollow Canal

M, continued

  • Marrowby Top Level
  • Marsh Reeve's Cut
  • Masons' Channel
  • Masquers' Water
  • Meadow Bank Waterway
  • Memorial Canal
  • Mercers' Hall Water
  • Merchants' Hydraulic Canal
  • Mermaids' Purse Canal
  • Mesa Roja Lateral
  • Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio)
  • Middlesex Canal (Massachusetts)

M, continued

  • Midtown Waterway
  • Millennium Canal
  • Miller's Landing Cross-Cut Canal
  • Millers' Race
  • Millhanger Arm
  • Millpond Leat
  • Minsterlowe Canal
  • Minsterlowe Navigation
  • Minstrels' Water
  • Mission Ditch
  • Mistlebury Navigation
  • Mistral Water

M, continued

  • Mittellandkanal (Germany)
  • Mondscheinfleet
  • Moneychangers' Water
  • Monkspenny Chase Canal
  • Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (Wales)
  • Monsoon Feeder Canal
  • Montgomery Canal (Wales and England)
  • Morris Canal (New Jersey)
  • Mosterdvaart
  • Mudlarks' Ditch
  • Mule Path Sidecut
  • Museum Mile Canal
  • Muskrat Creek Feeder

N: 33 names

  • Nahrawan Canal (medieval Iraq)
  • Narrows Bypass Seaway
  • Naviglio dei Tessitori
  • Naviglio del Duca
  • Naviglio della Martesana (Lombardy)
  • Naviglio delle Rose
  • Naviglio di Valchiara
  • Naviglio Grande (Milan)
  • Naviglio Pavese (Lombardy)
  • Navvies' Ditch
  • Netmenders' Cut

N, continued

  • Nettlewade Regis Canal
  • Neuer Hafenkanal
  • New Amsterdam Station Gracht
  • New Athelney Hydraulic Canal
  • New Pumping Drain
  • New Town Canal
  • Newry Canal (Northern Ireland)
  • Nieuwe Wilgengracht
  • Nieuwegracht (Utrecht)
  • Nikolaifleet (Hamburg)
  • Nilosyrtis (old maps of Mars)

N, continued

  • Nine Alders Pound
  • Nine Locks Division
  • Noctis Labyrinth Canal
  • Noordhollandsch Kanaal (Netherlands)
  • Noordzeekanaal (Netherlands)
  • Nootmuskaatgracht
  • Norrowslade and Elmscott Canal
  • North Main Drain
  • Northgate Deep Water Channel
  • Nova Rialto Grand Canal
  • Nyhavn (Copenhagen)

O: 32 names

  • Oakenby New Main Line
  • Oasis Main Channel
  • Obvodny Canal (Saint Petersburg)
  • Oder-Havel-Kanal (Brandenburg)
  • Oder-Spree-Kanal (Brandenburg)
  • Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio)
  • Old Empress Canal
  • Old Hickory Feeder Canal
  • Old Mint Cut
  • Old Northwest Canal

O, continued

  • Old Sluice Drain
  • Old Town Moat Canal
  • Old Vennacott Canal
  • Old Wharf Branch
  • Olympus Foot Aqueduct
  • Ooievaarsgracht
  • Opera House Canal
  • Orchardlow Vale Canal
  • Ore Dock Channel
  • Ostsee-Bodden-Kanal
  • Oswego Canal (New York)

O, continued

  • Otaru Canal (Japan)
  • Otter Falls and Hickory Landing Canal
  • Otter Rapids Guard Lock Canal
  • Otterlode and Millhanger Canal
  • Oude Delft (Delft)
  • Oude Zoutvaart
  • Oudegracht (Utrecht)
  • Outer Harbor Seaway
  • Oxenholt Branch
  • Oxford Canal (English Midlands)
  • Oystermen's Channel

P: 38 names

  • Packet Boat Line
  • Paddy Terrace Channel
  • Painted Rock and Big Elm Canal
  • Panama Canal (Panama)
  • Papiermacherfleet
  • Papiermolenvaart
  • Parson's Cut
  • Pawnbrokers' Reach
  • Peak Forest Canal (England)
  • Pendlebrook Navigation
  • Penitents' Reach
  • Perchlorate Wash Channel

P, continued

  • Peverstone Arm
  • Phison (old maps of Mars)
  • Phobos Shadow Canal
  • Pigeon Roost and Cedar Narrows Canal
  • Pilgrims' Water
  • Pilots' Channel
  • Pioneer Ditch
  • Pipersholt Canal
  • Plague Wall Canal
  • Players' Reach
  • Poisoners' Water
  • Polar Cap Trunk Canal
  • Polder Ring Canal

P, continued

  • Poplar Avenue Canal
  • Port Ellery and Western Canal
  • Port Halloran Ship Canal
  • Portage Summit Feeder
  • Potteries Branch
  • Potters' Channel
  • Power Station Cooling Canal
  • Prairie du Loup Canal
  • Prinsengracht (Amsterdam)
  • Pump House Feeder
  • Puppeteers' Cut
  • Purlock Navigation
  • Pyeworth Branch

Q: 6 names

  • Qanat Outlet Channel
  • Quarrenheath and Ibbmarsh Canal
  • Quarry Hill Lateral Canal
  • Quarry Tramway Canal
  • Queensway Dock Cut
  • Quillstead and Roanwick Union

R: 79 names

  • Raamgracht (Amsterdam)
  • Ragpickers' Water
  • Rapenburg (Leiden)
  • Ratcatchers' Water
  • Ravelstow Canal
  • Ravenstow Junction
  • Reach Lode (Cambridgeshire)
  • Reclaimer's Canal
  • Red Dust Lateral
  • Redbrick Canal
  • Reedcutter's Drain
  • Regatta Canal
  • Regent's Canal (London)

R, continued

  • Regolith Shield Canal
  • Reguliersgracht (Amsterdam)
  • Reigersvaart
  • Reservoir Feeder Branch
  • Rhein-Herne-Kanal (Ruhr)
  • Rice Fields Main Canal
  • Rideau Canal (Ontario)
  • Ridgeway Summit Level
  • Right Bank Main Canal
  • Rigole de la Plaine (Languedoc)
  • Rigole des Sept-Sources
  • Rigole du Haut-Plateau
  • Rio degli Specchi

R, continued

  • Rio degli Speziali
  • Rio dei Burattinai
  • Rio dei Campanari
  • Rio dei Cartografi
  • Rio dei Cordai
  • Rio dei Fornai
  • Rio dei Greci (Venice)
  • Rio dei Liutai
  • Rio dei Mendicanti (Venice)
  • Rio dei Mercanti di Seta
  • Rio dei Merletti
  • Rio dei Vetrai (Murano)
  • Rio del Corallo

R, continued

  • Rio del Gatto Nero
  • Rio del Leone Verde
  • Rio del Melograno
  • Rio del Pozzo Vecchio
  • Rio dell'Alba
  • Rio dell'Ancora
  • Rio dell'Arsenale (Venice)
  • Rio dell'Orologiaio
  • Rio della Dogana Vecchia
  • Rio della Luna Nuova
  • Rio della Misericordia (Venice)
  • Rio della Sensa (Venice)
  • Rio delle Clessidre

R, continued

  • Rio delle Colombe
  • Rio delle Maschere
  • Rio delle Rondini
  • Rio delle Sette Lune
  • Rio delle Vele
  • Rio di Palazzo (Venice)
  • Rio di San Barnaba (Venice)
  • Rio di San Lorenzo (Venice)
  • Rio di San Polo (Venice)
  • Rio di San Trovaso (Venice)
  • Rio Marin (Venice)
  • Rio Novo (Venice)
  • Riverside Bypass Canal

R, continued

  • Riverwalk Waterway
  • Riveters' Cut
  • Roanwick New Cut
  • Rochdale Canal (Pennines)
  • Roll-On Terminal Cut
  • Ropemakers' Long Canal
  • Ropewalk Canal
  • Rowing Lake Link
  • Royal Canal (Ireland)
  • Royal Military Canal (Kent and Sussex)
  • Runecarvers' Water
  • Rushbottom Arm
  • Rushy Fen Leam
  • Rust Butte Aqueduct

S: 87 names

  • Sagebrush Ditch
  • Sailmakers' Reach
  • Saimaa Canal (Finland and Russia)
  • Saint Brannoc's Water
  • Saint Corvin the Ferryman's Water
  • Saint Hesper's Channel
  • Saint Maud of the Locks
  • Saint Orrin's Canal
  • Saint Wenna's Reach
  • Sallowfield and Pendlebrook Canal
  • Saltgreaves and Hoxwick Canal
  • Saltmarsh Cut
  • Saltmouth Ship Canal
  • Saltwives' Channel

S, continued

  • Saltworks Branch
  • Salzsiederkanal
  • Sandbar Portage Canal
  • Sandle Cut
  • Sandy and Beaver Canal (Ohio)
  • Santee Canal (South Carolina)
  • Schiaparelli Memorial Canal
  • Schuylkill Navigation (Pennsylvania)
  • Schwanenkanal
  • Scriveners' Water
  • Sea Lock Canal
  • Seawall Back Drain
  • Sedgewarren Feeder
  • Seilerfleet
  • Selkie Water

S, continued

  • Settlers' Covered Canal
  • Seven Bridges Canal
  • Shawcross and Lake Shore Canal
  • Shipwrights' Canal
  • Shire Oakenby Canal
  • Shropshire Union Canal (England)
  • Silberkanal
  • Silverwrights' Water
  • Singel (Amsterdam)
  • Sirhind Canal (India)
  • Sixteen Foot Drain (Fens)
  • Skelbrough Branch
  • Slate Wharf Cut
  • Smelter Basin Arm

S, continued

  • Smugglers' Back Water
  • Snowmelt Flume
  • Södertälje Canal (Sweden)
  • Solar Mirror Canal
  • South Catchwater Drain
  • Speicherkanal
  • Speldenmakersgracht
  • Spice Market Cut
  • Spicers' Water
  • Spiegelrei (Bruges)
  • Spinward Canal
  • Squire Addlam's Navigation
  • Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (England)
  • Staircase Lock Canal
  • Stanmoor Parva Canal

S, continued

  • Staplewyke and Embercote Junction
  • Starboard Promenade Canal
  • Starwater Channel
  • Station Road Canal
  • Stecknitz Canal (medieval Germany)
  • Steelworks Arm
  • Stichkanal Eisenhütte
  • Stichkanal Neuhafen
  • Stillwater and Summit Canal
  • Stonebridge and Lake Verity Canal
  • Stonecutters' Dark Canal
  • Stonepenny Cut
  • Stop Lock Junction
  • Storchengraben

S, continued

  • Stormwater Relief Channel
  • Stroudwater Navigation (Gloucestershire)
  • Suez Canal (Egypt)
  • Sugar Maple and Beech Fork Canal
  • Sugar Wharf Cut
  • Sugarcane Lateral
  • Summit Pound
  • Summit Tunnel Line
  • Sunset Reach
  • Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal (USA)
  • Swanneck and Tilbourne Navigation
  • Swansea Canal (Wales)
  • Swing Bridge Reach
  • Sycamore Bend Navigation
  • Syrtis Dustbreak Canal

T: 80 names

  • Tailrace Channel
  • Tailwater Return Ditch
  • Tamarack and Lake Corliss Canal
  • Tamberley and Ouselby Canal
  • Tank Farm Channel
  • Tanners' Reach
  • Tannery Arm
  • Tannery Falls Power Canal
  • Tarnwick and Low Hesslow Canal
  • Telemark Canal (Norway)
  • Teltowkanal (Berlin)
  • Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (USA)
  • Terraformers' Canal

T, continued

  • Tewlock Navigation
  • Thames and Severn Canal (England)
  • Tharsis Main Trunk
  • The Amber Reach
  • The Chancellor's Ditch
  • The Deepdelve
  • The Drowned Quarter Canal
  • The Earl's New Cut
  • The Glimmerdeep
  • The Hangman's Reach
  • The Level Mile
  • The Lightless Mile
  • The Long Green Water

T, continued

  • The Long Water (Hampton Court)
  • The Moonmirror
  • The Murk
  • The Oathkeepers' Channel
  • The Old Canal
  • The Old Line
  • The Queen's Mirror
  • The Regent's Folly
  • The Rustwater
  • The Serpent's Coil
  • The Silver Stair Canal
  • The Slow Highway
  • The Twelve Lock Flight
  • The Underway

T, continued

  • The Wet Road
  • Thieves' Cut
  • Thistlewade Arm
  • Thistlewade Canal
  • Thoth (old maps of Mars)
  • Three Forks and Lakeshore Canal
  • Three Locks Canal
  • Three Martyrs' Canal
  • Thrumley and Kingscray Canal
  • Tidewater and Piedmont Canal
  • Tidewater Ship Canal
  • Tilbourne Arm
  • Tilers' Water

T, continued

  • Timber Pond Cut
  • Tinkers' Ditch
  • Tinnegietersgracht
  • Tinners' Leat
  • Titan Methane Canal
  • Tolleswick Arm
  • Tolleswick Canal
  • Tollgate Canal
  • Tollkeeper's Branch
  • Top Lock Canal
  • Torus One Canal
  • Touwslagersvaart
  • Towpath Mile

T, continued

  • Tramway Canal
  • Transisthmian Canal
  • Trent and Mersey Canal (England)
  • Trent-Severn Waterway (Ontario)
  • Trollhätte Canal (Sweden)
  • Tuchmacherkanal
  • Tunnel End Canal
  • Tuppingstead Cut
  • Turnover Junction
  • Twelve Mile Slackwater
  • Twentekanaal (Netherlands)
  • Twin Mills Loop
  • Twin Moons Waterway
  • Two Seas Ship Canal

U: 10 names

  • Uhrmachergraben
  • Union Canal (Scotland)
  • Union Slackwater Navigation
  • University Canal
  • Upper Dapplemoor Navigation
  • Upper Marrowby Canal
  • Upper Rapids Bypass Canal
  • Upper Terrace Branch
  • Uptown Loop Canal
  • Utopia Planitia Feeder

V: 9 names

  • Vaart langs de Zeven Molens
  • Vale of Emberley Canal
  • Valley Floor Main Canal
  • Venus Cloud City Sky Canal
  • Vespers Water
  • Victoria Ship Canal
  • Victory Water
  • Vintners' Run
  • Vuurtorenvaart

W: 39 names

  • Wabash and Erie Canal (Indiana)
  • Wadi Diversion Canal
  • Wagon Works Arm
  • Walvisvaardersgracht
  • Washland Relief Channel
  • Watergate Reach
  • Weavers' Water
  • Weighlock Branch
  • Welland Canal (Ontario)
  • Wendover Arm (Chiltern Hills)
  • Wesel-Datteln-Kanal (Ruhr)
  • Westerfold and Skelbrough Union
  • Western Reserve Feeder

W, continued

  • Westmill Canal
  • Wetherlock and Ainsmoor Canal
  • Wey and Arun Canal (Surrey and Sussex)
  • Wherrymen's Cut
  • Whitepine Extension
  • Whitewater Canal (Indiana)
  • Wickerham and Dunnock Green Canal
  • Wiener Neustädter Kanal (Austria)
  • Wilgenvaart
  • Wilhelminakanaal (Netherlands)
  • Willow King's Canal
  • Willow Walk Waterway
  • Wimble and Thrumley Navigation

W, continued

  • Winding Hole Arm
  • Windmühlenkanal
  • Windpump Dike
  • Witchlamp Channel
  • Withy Bed Navigation
  • Withyslade and Cinderholme Canal
  • Wold Newbarrow and Sandle Canal
  • Wolf Run Sidecut
  • Wolweversgracht
  • Wool Exchange Canal
  • Worcester and Birmingham Canal (England)
  • Wrenford and Harrowmere Canal
  • Wrenford Navigation

X: 1 name

  • Xerxes Canal (ancient Greece)

Y: 1 name

  • Yarrowgate Flight

Z: 11 names

  • Zanja Madre (Los Angeles)
  • Zeilmakersgracht
  • Zero Mile Lock Canal
  • Zevensterrengracht
  • Zilverrei
  • Zilversmidsgracht
  • Zimmermannsgraben
  • Zollkanal (Hamburg)
  • Zoutziedersgracht
  • Zuid-Willemsvaart (Netherlands and Belgium)
  • Zwaluwgracht