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The height of the bridge's two towers is 334 m (1,096 ft), [note 1] making it the tallest bridge in Turkey, surpassing Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, and the third tallest structure in the country. Internationally, the bridge is the second tallest bridge in the world, surpassing the Pingtang Bridge in China. The deck of the bridge is 72.8 m (239 ft ...
Longest stone arch bridge in Turkey: 1,392 m (4,567 ft) Masonry 174 arches: Road bridge Edirne Çanakkale Yolu Ergene. 1443: Uzunköprü ...
The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e., the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers). The length of the main span is the most common method of comparing the sizes of suspension bridges, often correlating with the height of the towers and the engineering complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge. [4]
On Friday, a massive suspension bridge in Turkey that connects Europe and Asia was inaugurated. The 1915 Canakkale Bridge is the world’s longest suspension bridge.
Uzunköprü is the longest stone bridge in the world. [17] When it was first completed, was 1,392 metres (4,567 ft) long and 5.24 metres (17.2 ft) wide. [6] The bridge was the longest in the Ottoman Empire and later Turkey, a title which it held for 530 years until 1973, when it was surpassed by the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul. [23]
Country m ft m ft Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge ... Guinness: Longest bridge over water (aggregate), October 2018 ... Turkey Nkomi Laguna Bridge [83] [84] 4,577 ...
The bridge links the Turkish city of Gebze to the Yalova Province and carries the O-5 motorway across the gulf. The bridge was opened on 1 July 2016 to become the then-longest suspension bridge in Turkey and the fourth-longest (seventh-longest as of 2023) suspension bridge in the world by the length of its central span.
The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge on the Dardanelles strait, connecting Europe and Asia, is the longest suspension bridge in the world. [3]The Straits have had major maritime strategic importance since at least the Mycenaean period, and the narrow crossings between Asia and Europe have provided migration and invasion routes (for Persians, Galatians, and Turks, for example) for even longer.