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This table presents a non-exhaustive list of the road and railway bridges with spans greater than 100 metres (328 ft) or total lengths longer than 5,000 metres (16,404 ft). Name Turkish
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 ...
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.
The Donghai Bridge, China is the second longest cross-sea bridge in the world The Lupu Bridge, China. Donghai Bridge—Second-longest over-sea bridge; Duge Bridge—Highest bridge in the world as of late 2016; Lupu Bridge; Shanghai Yangtze River Bridge; Tongling Bridge; Wuhu Yangtze River 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]
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 Sakarya Viaduct (Turkish: Sakarya Viyadüğü) is a 2,233 m (7,326 ft) long railway bridge carrying the Ankara-Istanbul high-speed railway across the Sakarya River and its adjacent plain approximately 15 km (9.3 mi) west of Polatlı, Turkey. The bridge is the fourth longest bridge in Turkey after the Çanakkale 1915 Bridge and Osman Gazi ...