List of Longest Bridges in the World

Bridge is a structure which helps people, vehicles to cross an obstacle such as water, railways, town below, valley, hills and other scenarios. Basically it connects two points and decreases or shortens the distance between them.

Howrah Bridge in Kolkata, is a well-known bridge across the Hooghly river in West Bengal. The Mumbai Sea-Link is also a very famous bridge in Maharashtra. The types of bridges are – arch bridge, beam bridge, truss bridge, cantilever bridge, tied arch bridge, suspension bridge and cable-stayed bridge.

Longest Bridges in the World

The longest bridges in the world are –

Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge is the longest bridge in the world. It is situated in China. It runs for a distance of 164.8 kilometers. This bridge runs across 5 states in China. The five cities are – Danyang, Changzhou, Wuxi, Sunzou and Kunshan. It is made to be a part of 1302 km long Beijing-Shanghai Railway High Speed.

Tianjin Grand Bridge is located in China. It is the second largest bridge in the world. This viaduct bridge runs for a distance of 113.7km. This bridge is also a part of Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway.

Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is one of the largest bridges in the world; it is also located in China. It runs a distance of about 26.7 km and is located in the eastern China’s Shandong province. This is a long roadway bridge passing over the Jiaozhou Bay. It is a part of the 41.58 km Jiaozhou Bay Connection Project; it is said to be the “longest bridge over water.”

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the largest bridge over water in the world in the continent of North America. Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louisiana in the United States of America has this bridge running over it.

The total length of the bridge is 38.442 km. It is held over water with 9500 concrete pillars. It is built with two parallel bridges with 4 lanes in total.

Manchac Swamp is also situated in the state of Louisiana. It is situated in the country of the United States of America in North America. It has a total length of 36.7km. This bridge represents one third of the total highway of the state of Louisiana. It had been created as a twin concrete trestle bridge.

Hangzhou Bay Bridge connects Chinese municipalities – Jiaxing and Ningbo in Zhejiang province. The total length of the bridge is 35.6 km. There are six lanes in the bridge. It is known to have the longest span between ground to support 448 m (cable stayed).

Runyang Bridge is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. It is located in China. It crosses the river Yangtze in Jiangsu Province. The length of its main span is over 1.4km. It is 22.1 miles long. The bridge is a part of the Yangzhou-Liyang Expressway.

Donghai Bridge has a total length of 32.5 km. This is one of the largest cross sea bridges in the world. It is situated in China. It connects mainland China with an offshore island Yangshan which hosts large deep-water ports.

Majority of the bridge structures are low level viaducts, with several high cable stayed sections that allow passage of ships underneath it.

Atchafalaya Swamp Expressway has a feature of 19 kilometers of trestle bridge. This has 1.6 km of tunnels and two high clearance bridges. It crosses 4 artificial islands and has 3.5 km of causeway and 8.9 km of access roads. It has 4 lanes. The total length is 28.3 km.

Vasco Da Gama Bridge is situated in the capital of Portugal – Lisbon. It is made from a combination of viaducts, rangviews and cable stayed bridge. It runs over the Tagus River near Lisbon, the capital city. The total length of the bridge is 17.2 km and the large span is 420 m.

Rio-Niteroi Bridge is a box-girder bridge which is located at Guanabara Bay, in the state of Rio de Janeiro in the country of Brazil in the South American sub-continent. It has 8 traffic lanes and the total length of the bridge is 13.2 km. It also holds the record of the longest prestressed concrete bridge in the Southern Hemisphere till date.

Name	Distance	Place
Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge	164.8 km	China
Changhua-Kaohsiung Viaduct Taiwan High Speed Rail	157.3 km	Taiwan
Tianjin Grand Bridge	113.7 km	China
Cangde Grand Bridge	115.9 km	China
Bang Na Expressway	54 km	Thailand
Weinan Weihe Grand Bridge	79.7 km	China
Manchac Swamp	36.7 km	United States of America
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway	38.442 km	United States of America
Jakarta-Cikampek Elevated Toll Road	36.4 km	Indonesia
Sheikh Jaber Al-Sabah Causeway	36.1 km	Kuwait
Hangzhou Bay Bridge	35. 6 km	Zhejiang
Lima Metro Line	33 km	Peru
Donghai Bridge	32.5 km	China
Temburong Bridge	30 km	Brunei Darussalam
Shanghai Maglev Line	29 km	China
Dwarka Sector 8 Metro	29 km	India
Atchafalaya Basin Bridge	29 km	United States of America
Jiaozhou Bay Bridge	26 km	China
Tianjin Binhai Mass Transit	25.8 km	China
East West MRT Line	25.7 km	Singapore
King Fahd Causeway Bridge	25 km	Saudi Arabia and Bahrain
Vasco Da Gama Bridge	17.2 km	Portugal
Rio-Niteroi Bridge	13.2 km	Brazil
Runyang Bridge	1.4 km	China
Incheon Bridge	21 km	South Korea
Yongding New river Bridge	21 km	China
6th October Bridge	20.5 km	Egypt
Hami Grade Separation Bridge	19.3 km	China
Crimean Bridge	18.1 km	Russia  Crimea
Bonnet Carre Spillway Bridge of I-10	17.702 km	United States
Eastern Freeway South Stretch	15.595 km	India
Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway	15.6 km	China
Thousand Islands Bridge	13.7 km	United States  Canda
Penang Bridge	13.5 km	Malaysia
Kam Sheung Road-Tuen Mun	13.4 km	Hong Kong
Louisiana Highway 1 Bridge	13.3 km	United States
Rio-Niteroi Bridge	13.290 km	Brazil
Great Seto Bridge	13.1 km	Japan
Bhumibol Bridge	13 km	Thailand
Confederation Bridge	12.9 km	Canada
Jubilee Parkway	12.8 km	Canada
Rudong Yangkou Yellow Sea Bridge	12.6 km	China
Bali Mandara Toll Road	12.7 km	Indonesia
Rosario-Victoria bridge	12.2 km	Argentina
North South MRT	12.2 km	Singapore
Emsland test facility	12 km	Germany
Nanjing Qinhuai River Bridge	12 km	China
Third Mainland Bridge	11.8 km	Nigeria
Mayor Mohammed Hanif Flyover	11.7 km	Bangladesh
Qingshuihe Bridge	11.7 km	China
Leziria Bridge (second longest bridge in Europe)	11.67 km	Portugal
P.V Narasimha Rao Elevated Expressway	11.6 km	India
NAIA Expressway	11.6 km	Philippines
San Mateo Hayward Bridge	11.27 km	USA
Hutong Yangtze River Bridge	11.07 km	China
Zhenjiang Beijing Hangzhou Canal	11 km	China

Longest Bridges in India

 

The longest bridges in India are:

Name and Place	Distance	Place	Opened	Connecting
Dhola Sadiya Bridge, Tinsukia, Assam	9.15 Km	Lohit River,	2017	Assam and Arunachal Pradesh
Dibang River Bridge	6.2 Km	Dibang River	2018	Arunachal Pradesh
Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna, Bihar	5.75 Km	Ganga	1982	South Patna to Hajipur
Bandra-Worli Sea Link (BWSL), Mumbai	5.57 Km	Mahim Bay	2009	Bandra to Worli (South Mumbai)
Bogibeel Bridge, Assam	4.94 Km	Brahmaputra River	2018	Dhemaji to Dibrugarh
Vikramshila Setu, Bhagalpur, Bihar	4.70 Km	Ganga	2001	Bhagalpur to Naugachia
Vembanad Rail Bridge, Kochi, Kerala	4.62 Km	Vembanad Lake	2011	Edappally to Vallarpadam
Digha–Sonpur Bridge, Patna, Bihar	4.55 Km	Ganga river	2016	Digha, Patna to Sonpur, Saran
Arrah–Chhapra Bridge, Saran, Bihar	4.35 Km	Ganga	2017	Arrah to Chhapra
Godavari Bridge, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh	4.13 Km	Godavari river	2015	Kovvur to Rajahmundry
Munger Ganga Bridge, Bihar	3.75 Km	Ganges river	2020	Munger to Jamalpur
Chahlari Ghat Bridge, Uttar Pradesh	3.25 Km	Ghagra river	2017	Bahraich to Sitapur
Jawahar Setu, Bihar	3.06 Km	Son river	1965	Dehri – Son nagar
Nehru Setu, Bihar	3.05 Km	Son river	1900	Dehri – Son Nagar
Koila Bhomora Setu, Assam	3.01 Km	Brahmaputra river	1987	Tezpur to Kaliabor

Conclusion

Billions of dollars are spent on developing bridges and structures. China loans money to different countries to develop bridges. The bridges serve a very simplified solution to traffic, and obstacles which come on the path.

An interesting fact is that the Golden Bridge in San Francisco even at over 4,000 ft does not qualify in the longest bridges in the world.