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This list of highest bridges includes bridges with a deck height of at least 200 metres (660 ft). The deck height of a bridge is the maximum vertical drop distance between the bridge deck (the road, rail or other transport bed of a bridge) and the ground or water surface beneath the bridge span.
For example, (as of 1 July 2020) the Duge Bridge is the highest bridge in the world, but only the fifteenth tallest. This bridge spans a deep river gorge. The bridge's two towers, built on either rim of the gorge, are 269 m (883 ft) tall, but due to the depth of the river gorge, the deck height of the Duge Bridge is 565 m (1,854 ft).
With a height of 1,104 feet, the Millau Viaduct is the tallest bridge in the world. The Millau Viaduct, which is located in Creissels, France, is such a marvel of engineering that many were skeptical that the bridge could even be built.
Standing at an amazing 496 meters, the highest bridge in the world is the Sidu River Bridge in the Hubei province of central China. The Sidu River Bridge is a suspensions bridge that is 900 meters long that crosses a large gorge formed by the Sidu River as it meanders its way through the mountains.
The Millau Viaduct (French: Viaduc de Millau, IPA: [vja.dyk də mi.jo]) is a multispan cable-stayed bridge completed in 2004 across the gorge valley of the Tarn near (west of) Millau in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie Region, in Southern France.
Chenab Bridge is the tallest bridge in the world by hieght at an elevation of 359 meters (1,178 ft). It is also the world’s highest rail bridge and the arch was completed and it will open to rail traffic by December 2024.
Tallest bridge. The 2,460-m (8,070-ft) long Millau Viaduct across the Tarn Valley, France, is supported by seven concrete piers, the tallest of which measures 244.96 m (804 ft) from the ground to the road deck.
This list of tallest bridges includes bridges with a structural height of at least 200 metres (660 ft). The structural height of a bridge is the maximum vertica...
Sutong Bridge, located about 60 miles northwest of Shanghai, crosses the Yangtze River to connect the cities of Suzhou and Nantong. The cable-stayed bridge’s two iconic towers measure 1,004 feet high, making this the seventh-tallest bridge in the world.
The Eiffel Tower is 1063 feet tall—antennae included—making the Millau Viaduct the tallest structure in France. It’s also the tallest bridge in the world. The viaduct from a distance.