Longest Bridges In The World
Earlier this year China opened the Quindao Haiwan Bridge.
11. Incheon Bridge
The Incheon Bridge (also called the Incheon Grand Bridge) is a newly constructed reinforced concrete bridge in South Korea. At its opening in October 2009, it became the second connection between Yeongjong Island and the mainland of Incheon.
12. 6th October Bridge
The 6th October Bridge is an elevated highway in central Cairo, Egypt. The 20.5 kilometres (12.7 mi) bridge and causeway crosses the Nile River twice from the west bank suburbs, east through Gezira Island to Downtown Cairo, and on to connect the city to the Cairo International Airport to the east. Its name commemorates the date of The Crossing which commenced the outbreak day of the October War in 1973.
13. Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel
The bridge tunnel originally combined 12 miles (19 km) of trestle, two 1 mile (1.6 km) long tunnels, four artificial islands, two high level bridges, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) of causeway, and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of approach roads crossing Chesapeake Bay.
14. Jintang Bridge
Jintang Bridge is a highway bridge with a cable stayed bridge portion, built in Zhejiang, China on the Zhoushan Archipelago, the largest offshore island group in China.
15. Jiaozhou Bay Bridge
Although the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is technically the longest bridge over water, parts of it are suspended over dry land which means that the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway has been declared to be the longest bridge running over a continuous span of water.
16. Atchafalaya Basin Bridge
The Atchafalaya Basin Bridge is a pair of parallel bridges in the US state of Louisiana between Baton Rouge and Lafayette which carries Interstate 10 over the Atchafalaya Basin.
17. Shanghai Maglev Track
This 30 km long span of elevated track runs from Pudong International airport to the Shanghai city outskirts where passengers can transfer to the metro.
18. Donghai Bridge
Donghai Bridge is one of the longest cross sea bridges in the world. It has a total length of 32.5 kilometres (20.2 mi) and connects mainland Shanghai and the offshore Yangshan deep water port in China.
19. Runyang Bridge
The Runyang Bridge is a large bridge complex that crosses the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province, China, downstream of Nanjing. The complex consists of two major bridges that link Zhenjiang on the south bank of the river and Yangzhou on the north. The bridge is part of the Beijing Shanghai Expressway.
20. Hangzhou Bay Bridge
At 35.673 km (22 mi) in length, Hangzhou Bay Bridge is one of the longest trans oceanic bridges in the world.
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