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  2. List of longest suspension bridge spans - Wikipedia

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    It was the longest suspension span but not the longest span of all bridges. Ambassador Bridge US and Canada: 564 m (1,850 ft) 1929–1931: Since this bridge was built, the record for longest bridge span has only been held by suspension bridges. George Washington Bridge: New York – New Jersey, US: 1,067 m (3,501 ft) 1931–1937

  3. Mackinac Bridge - Wikipedia

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    It spans the Straits of Mackinac, a body of water connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, two of the Great Lakes. Opened in 1957, the 26,372-foot-long (4.995 mi; 8.038 km) [1] bridge is the world's 27th-longest main span and is the longest suspension bridge between anchorages in the Western Hemisphere. [5]

  4. List of longest bridges - Wikipedia

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    Retrieved 6 May 2018. ^ The total length of all raised spans is 1.9 miles (3.1 km), but the shipping channel span is 750 feet (229 m) Bay Area Toll Authority – Bridge Facts – San Mateo-Hayward Bridge Archived 2008-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. ^ "Shanghai-Nantong Yangtze River Bridge – Doka".

  5. List of bridges in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Notes. ^ The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge held the record of the longest bridge span in the world from 1964 to 1981.[1] ^ At the time of its opening in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge was the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world,[4] titles it held until 1964 and 1998 respectively.

  6. Lake Pontchartrain Causeway - Wikipedia

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    Supporters made this claim based on its own definition, i.e. the length of a bridge physically over water, and concluded that the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway spans 23.79 mi (38.28 km), [14] and was therefore the longest. The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge spans water for only 16.1 mi (25.9 km).

  7. Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The bridge has a central span of 4,260 feet (1.30 km; 0.81 mi). It was the longest suspension bridge in the world until it was surpassed by the Humber Bridge in the UK in 1981. The bridge has the 18th-longest main span in the world, as well as the longest in the Americas.

  8. New River Gorge Bridge - Wikipedia

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    New River Gorge Bridge. The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet (924 m) long over the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. With an arch 1,700 feet (518 m) long, the New River Gorge Bridge was the world's longest single-span arch bridge for 26 years; [ 4 ...

  9. Bear Mountain Bridge - Wikipedia

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    When the bridge formally opened on November 27, 1924, it was the longest suspension bridge span in the world, and the first of its type to have a concrete deck. [16] It was the first automobile bridge to cross the Hudson south of Albany, and surpassed the 1888 Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge as the southernmost crossing of the river. [17]