List of longest suspension bridge spans

The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge has the longest central span of any suspension bridge

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 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.

Suspension bridges have the longest spans of any type of bridge. Cable-stayed bridges, the next longest design, are practical for spans up to just over 1 km. Therefore the 15 longest bridges on this list are all currently the 15 longest spans of all types of vehicular bridges (other than floating pontoon bridges).

Completed suspension bridges

This list includes only completed suspension bridges that carry automobiles or trains. It does not include cable-stayed bridges, footbridges, or pipeline bridges.

Note: Click on each bridge's reference entry to go to the bridge's official website. Ranks with a red asterisk (*) do not have official websites, nor do they have English-language versions.

	Rank	Name	Location	Main span metres	Main span feet	Year opened
	1	Akashi Kaikyō Bridge (The longest since 1998)	Kobe-Awaji Route, Japan 34°37′1.3″N 135°1′18.9″E	1,991	6,532	1998
	2 *	Xihoumen Bridge	Zhoushan Archipelago, China 30°3′42.4″N 121°54′57.6″E	1,650	5,414	2009
	3	Great Belt Bridge (also known as the Storebælt Bridge)	Halsskov-Sprogø, Denmark 55°20′31″N 11°2′9.3″E	1,624	5,328	1998
	4	Yi Sun-sin Bridge	Gwangyang-Yeosu, South Korea	1,545	5,069	2012
	5	Runyang Bridge	Yangtze River, China	1,490	4,888	2005
	6	Nanjing Fourth Yangtze Bridge	Nanjing, China	1,418	4,652	2012
	7	Humber Bridge (The longest from 1981 until 1998)	Hessle - Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom	1,410	4,626	1981
	8 *	Jiangyin Suspension Bridge	Yangtze River, China	1,385	4,543	1999
	9	Tsing Ma Bridge (longest rail carrying)	Tsing Yi-Ma Wan, Hong Kong	1,377	4,518	1997
	10	Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (The longest from 1964 until 1981, and still longest in North America)	Brooklyn–Staten Island, New York, USA	1,298	4,260	1964
	11	Golden Gate Bridge (The longest from 1937 until 1964)	San Francisco-Marin County, California, USA	1,280	4,200	1937
	12 *	Yangluo Bridge	Yangtze River, China	1,280	4,200	2007
	13	Högakustenbron (High Coast Bridge)	Ångermanälven river, Sweden	1,210	3,970	1997
	14	Mackinac Bridge (The longest span between anchorages in the Western Hemisphere)	Mackinaw City - St. Ignace, Michigan	1,158	3,800	1957
	15	Aizhai Bridge	near Jishou, Hunan, China	1,146	3,760	2012
	16	Huangpu Bridge	People's Republic of China Guangzhou, China	1,108	3,635	2008
	17	Minami Bisan-Seto Bridge (Great Seto Bridge)	Kojima-Sakaide Route, Japan	1,100	3,609	1989
	18 *	Fatih Sultan Mehmet (Second Bosporus Bridge)	Istanbul, Turkey	1,090	3,576	1988
	19	Balinghe Bridge	near Guanling, China	1,088	3,570	2009
	20	Taizhou Bridge	near Taixhou, China	1,080 (2x)	3,540	2012
	21 *	Boğaziçi (First Bosporus Bridge)	Istanbul, Turkey	1,074	3,524	1973
	22	George Washington Bridge (The longest from 1931 until 1937)	Fort Lee, New Jersey - Washington Heights, New York City	1,067	3,500	1931
	23	Third Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge	Onomichi-Imabari Route, Japan	1,030	3,379	1999
	24	Second Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge	Onomichi-Imabari Route, Japan	1,020	3,346	1999
	25	Ponte 25 de Abril (Tagus Bridge)	Pragal, Almada Municipality and Lisbon, Portugal	1,013	3,323	1966
	26	Forth Road Bridge	Firth of Forth, Scotland, UK	1,006	3,300	1964
	27	Kita Bisan-Seto Bridge (Great Seto Bridge)	Kojima-Sakaide Route, Japan	990	3,248	1988
	28	Severn Bridge	River Severn, England/Wales, UK	988	3,240	1966
	29 *	Yichang Bridge	Yichang (Yangtze River), China	960	3,150	2001
	30	Shimotsui-Seto Bridge (Great Seto Bridge)	Kojima-Sakaide Route, Japan	940	3,084	1988
	31 *	Xiling Bridge	Yichang (Yangtze River), China	900	2,952	1996
	32 *	Si Du River Bridge (The highest bridge in the world from 2009 to present)	Hubei, China	900	2,953	2009
	33 *	Humen Pearl River Bridge	Dongguan (Pearl River), Guangdong province, China	888	2,913	1997
	34	Ohnaruto Bridge	Kobe-Naruto Route, Japan	876	2,874	1985
	35	Tacoma Narrows Bridge (westbound)	Tacoma, WA, USA	853	2,800	1950
	36	Tacoma Narrows Bridge (eastbound)	Tacoma, WA, USA	853	2,800	2007
	37 *	Askøy Bridge	Bergen, Norway	850	2,789	1992
Linked photo	38	Nanxi Bridge	Yibin, China	820	2,690	2012
	39	Innoshima Bridge	Onomichi-Imabari Route, Japan	770	2,526	1983
	40 *	Akinada Bridge	Akinada Islands (Hiroshima Pref.), Japan	750	2,461	2000
	41 *	Semipalatinsk Bridge	Semipalatinsk (Irtysh river), Kazakhstan	750	2,461	2000
	42	Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge (New Carquinez Bridge)	Carquinez Strait, CA, USA	728	2,388	2003
	43 *	Hakucho Bridge	Muroran (Hokkaidō Pref.), Japan	720	2,362	1998
	44 *	Angostura Bridge	Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela	712	2,336	1967
	45 *	Kanmonkyo Bridge	Honshū-Kyūshū, Japan	712	2,336	1973
	46	San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (Yerba Buena Island to anchorage)	San Francisco - Oakland, CA, USA	704	2,310	1936
	47	San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (San Francisco to anchorage)	San Francisco - Oakland, CA, USA	704	2,310	1936
	48	Bronx-Whitestone Bridge	New York, NY, (The Bronx - Queens) USA	701	2,300	1939
	49	Stord Bridge	Stord, Norway	677	2,221	2001
	50 *	Pierre Laporte Bridge	Quebec City, Canada	668	2,190	1970
	51	Delaware Memorial Bridge I (eastbound)	New Castle, DE - Pennsville, NJ, USA	655	2,150	1951
	52	Delaware Memorial Bridge II (westbound)	New Castle, DE - Pennsville, NJ, USA	655	2,150	1968
	53 *	Haicang Bridge	Xiamen, Fujian Province, China	648	2,126	1999
	54 *	Beipanjiang River 2009 Bridge	Qinglong, Guizhou, China	636	2,086	2009
	55 *	Gjemnessund Bridge	Gjemnes, Norway	623	2,044	1992
Linked photo	56 *	Yuzui Yangtze Bridge	Chongqing, China	616	2,021	2010
	57	Walt Whitman Bridge	Philadelphia, PA - Gloucester City, NJ, USA	610	2,000	1957
	58 *	Tancarville Bridge	Le Havre, France	608	1,995	1959
	59 *	New Little Belt Bridge	Little Belt, Denmark	600	1,969	1970
	60	First Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge	Onomichi-Imabari Route, Japan	600	1,969	1999
	61 *	E'gongyan Bridge	Chongqing, Sichuan Province, China (Yangtze River)	600	1,969	2000
	62 *	Osterøy Bridge	Osterøy, Norway	595	1,952	1997
-	63 *	Second Wanxian Bridge	Chongqing, China	580	1,903	2004
	64	Bømla Bridge	Bømlo, Norway	577	1,893	2001
	65 *	Rainbow Bridge	Tokyo, Japan	570	1,870	1993
	66	Ambassador Bridge (The longest from 1929 until 1931)	Detroit, Michigan, USA– Windsor, Ontario, Canada	564	1,850	1929
	67	Hakata-Ohshima Bridge	Onomichi-Imabari Route, Japan	560	1,837	1988
	68 *	Zhongxian Yangtze River Bridge	Chongqing, China	560	1,837	2001
	69	Throgs Neck Bridge	New York, NY, (The Bronx - Queens) USA	549	1,800	1961
	70 *	Toyoshima Bridge (ja)	Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan	540	1,772	2005
	71	Benjamin Franklin Bridge (The longest from 1926 until 1929)	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–Camden, New Jersey, USA	533	1,750	1926
	72 *	Skjomen Bridge	Narvik, Norway	525	1,722	1972
	73 *	Kvalsund Bridge	Hammerfest, Norway	525	1,722	1977
	74 *	Matadi Bridge	Matadi, Democratic Republic of the Congo	520	1,706	1983
	75 *	Emmerich Rhine Bridge	Emmerich am Rhein, Germany	500	1,640	1965
	76 *	Dazi Bridge	Dazi, China	500	1,640	1984
	77 *	Gwangan Bridge	Busan, South Korea	500	1,640	2002
	78	Bear Mountain Bridge (The longest from 1924 until 1926)	Peekskill, NY, USA	497	1,632	1924
	79	Williamsburg Bridge (The longest from 1903 until 1924)	New York, NY, (Brooklyn - Manhattan) USA	488	1,600	1903
	80	W. Preston Lane Memorial Bridge I	Chesapeake Bay, MD, USA	488	1,600	1952
	81 *	Newport Bridge (Sen. Claiborne Pell Bridge)	Newport, Rhode Island, RI, USA	488	1,600	1969
	82	W. Preston Lane Memorial Bridge II	Chesapeake Bay, MD, USA	488	1,600	1973
	83	Brooklyn Bridge (The longest from 1883 until 1903)	New York, NY, (Brooklyn - Manhattan) USA	486	1,596	1883
	84 *	Lions' Gate Bridge	West Vancouver - Vancouver, British Columbia Canada	473	1,550	1938
	85 *	Sotra Bridge	Bergen, Norway	468	1,535	1971
	86 *	Hirado Bridge	Hirado Island-Kyūshū Island, Japan	460	1,509	1977
	87	Mid-Hudson Bridge	Poughkeepsie, NY, USA	456	1,500	1930
	88 *	Vincent Thomas Bridge	Los Angeles, CA, USA	457	1,500	1963
Linked photo	89 *	Shantou Bay Bridge	Shantou, Guangdong, China	452	1,483	1995
	90 *	Fengdu Bridge	Sichuan (Yangtze River), China	450	1,476	1996
	91	Manhattan Bridge	New York, NY, (Manhattan - Brooklyn) USA	448	1,470	1909
	92 *	Lysefjord Bridge	Rogaland, Norway	446	1,463	1997
	93	Angus L. Macdonald Bridge	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada	441	1,447	1955
	94	A. Murray MacKay Bridge	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada	427	1,400	1970
	95	Suspension section of the Triborough Bridge	New York, NY, (Manhattan - Bronx - Queens) USA	421	1,380	1936
	96 *	Älvsborg Bridge	Gothenburg, Sweden	417	1,368	1966
	97 *	Thuan Phuoc Bridge	Đà Nẵng, Vietnam	405	1,329	2008
	98 *	Namhae Bridge	Namhae, South Korea	404	1,325	1973
	99 *	Aquitaine Bridge	Bordeaux, France	394	1,293	1967
Linked photo	100 *	Amu Daria River Bridge	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	390	1,280	1964
	101 *	Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge	Cologne, Germany	378	1,240	1954
	102	St. Johns Bridge	Portland, OR, USA	368	1,207	1931
	103 *	Wakato Narrows Bridge	Kitakyūshū, Japan	367	1,204	1962
	104 *	Mount Hope Bridge	Mount Hope Bay, RI, USA	366	1,200	1929
	105	Ogdensburg Prescott International Bridge (Seaway Skyway)	Ogdensburg, NY, USA - Prescott, Ontario, Canada	351	1,151	1960
	106 *	Pingsheng Bridge	Foshan, Guangdong, China	350	1,148	2006
	107 *	Hercilio Luz Bridge	Florianopolis, Brazil	340	1,115	1926
	108 *	Xixi Bridge	Linquanzhen, Guizhou, China	338	1,109	2001
	109	Bidwell Bar Bridge	Oroville, CA, USA	338	1,108	1965
	110 *	Varodd Bridge	Kristiansand, Norway	337	1,106	1956
	111	Tamar Bridge	Plymouth-Saltash, United Kingdom	335	1,100	1961
	112 *	Feda Fjord Bridge (no)	Feda, Vest-Agder, Norway	335	1,100	2006
	113 *	Deer Isle Bridge	Penobscot Bay, ME, USA	329	1,088	1939
	114 *	Otto Beit Bridge	Chirundu, Zambia to Chirundu, Zimbabwe	328	1,085	1939
	115 *	Rombak Bridge	Nordland, Norway	325	1,066	1964
	116 *	Nærøysund Bridge	Nord-Trøndelag, Norway	325	1,066	1981
	117 *	Simon Kenton Bridge	Maysville, KY, USA	323	1,060	1932
	118 *	Île d'Orléans Bridge	Quebec City, Canada	323	1,059	1936
	119 *	John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge (The longest from 1867 until 1883)	Cincinnati, OH, USA	322	1,057	1867
	120 *	Dent Bridge	Orofino, ID, USA	320	1,050	1971
	121 *	Cologne Mülheim Bridge	Cologne, Germany	315	1,033	1951
	122 *	Wheeling Suspension Bridge (The longest from 1849 until 1867)	Wheeling, West Virginia to Ohio over the Ohio River	308	1,010	1849
	123 *	Konohana Bridge	Osaka, Japan	300	984	1987
	124 *	Chavanon Viaduct	Merlines and Messeix, France (Chavanon Valley)	300	984	2000
	125	Yeongjong Grand Bridge (The longest self-anchored suspension bridge)	Incheon, South Korea	300	984	2000

Bridges under construction

Most of the large suspension bridges built in recent years have been in the People's Republic of China. As the following list shows, most of the bridges under construction are also in China.

Name	Location	Main span	Scheduled opening date	Notes
İzmit Bay Bridge	Marmara Sea, Turkey	1,550 m (5,090 ft)	2017	Reduced from 1,688m to 1,550m in 2012
Hardanger Bridge	Hardangerfjorden, Norway	1,310 m (4,300 ft)	2013	Construction start was in January 2009, and is estimated to be completed in 2013.
Third Bosphorus Bridge	Istanbul, Turkey	1,275 m (4,183 ft)	2015	It will be the third suspension bridge for crossing the Bosphorus as part of North Marmara Motorway.
Longjiang River Bridge	Wuhexiang, Yunnan, China	1,196 m (3,924 ft)	2015
Ma'anshan Bridge	near Ma'anshan, Anhui, China	1,000 m (3,300 ft)	2013	Two 1,000 m (3,300 ft) main spans.
Lishui Bridge	near Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China	856 m (2,808 ft)	2013
Yingwuzhou Bridge (zh)	near Wuhan, China	850 m (2,790 ft)	2015	Two 850 m (2,790 ft) main spans.
Puli Bridge	Pulixiang, Yunnan, China	628 m (2,060 ft)	2015
Dimuhe River Bridge	Liupanshui, Guizhou, China	538 m (1,765 ft)	2015
Taohuayu Yellow River Bridge	Taohuayu, Henan, China	406 m (1,332 ft)	2013
Eastern section of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge	San Francisco – Oakland, California, USA	385 m (1,263 ft)	2013	This will be the largest self-anchored suspension bridge ever constructed. With one tower, it will have two asymmetric spans of 180 and 385 m.

Planned and proposed bridges

Name	Location	Main span	Status	Notes
Sunda Strait Bridge	Java to Sumatra, Indonesia	about 3,000 m (9,800 ft)	Preliminary work	This project has been approved by the Indonesian government. If completed, it will not only be the world's longest suspension bridge (26 km), but will also have a main span of about 3,000 m (9,800 ft)—roughly fifty percent longer than the current record.
Malacca Strait Bridge	Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia to Sumatra, Indonesia	2,600 m (8,500 ft)	Preliminary work	Joint project between the Malaysian and Indonesian governments for a 48 km long crossing. Included is a suspension span of 2600 m and a cable-stayed span of 1200 m; making both longer than any existing in their category.
Unnamed	Qiongzhou Strait, China	about 2,000 m (6,600 ft)	Preliminary work	A suspension bridge is being considered to cross the 22.5 km wide Qiongzhou Strait. One design consists of four bridges strung together with four main spans of 2,000 m, two main-spans of 1,800 m, five anchorages and 10 towers. If completed this bridge will assume six of the top seven longest spans.
Çanakkale Suspension Bridge	Crossing the Dardanelles	2,023 m (6,637 ft)	Proposed	The bridge will be part of the Çanakkale-Tekirdağ-Kınalı-Balıkesir highway project. The construction tender is expected to be given in 2013
Chacao Channel bridge	Chiloé to mainland Chile	1,100 m (3,600 ft)	On hold	This unusual design has two main spans of 1,055 m and 1,100 m without an anchorage between them. Construction was supposed to begin in 2007 and completed in 2012, but because of cost overruns, the project is now on hold.
Strait of Messina Bridge	Sicily to mainland Italy	3,300 m (10,800 ft)	Preliminary work	The project was canceled on 11 October 2006 by the Romano Prodi-led government amid controversy concerning the bridge's cost. The new government from 2008 led by Silvio Berlusconi wants to pick up the project again. Preliminary works will begin in December 2009. The main construction is expected to begin in 2012.
Gibraltar Bridge	Spain to Morocco	?	Proposed	Some designs have suspension spans of several miles. The suspension cables of a very long bridge might be suspended from the ends of cable-stayed struts extending diagonally from huge pylons. However, as of 2008, the feasibility of a tunnel is being considered instead.
Hålogaland Bridge	Narvik, Norway	1,145 m (3,757 ft)	Call for bids	The bridge will reduce the distance between Narvik and Bjerkvik by 17 km. The government of Norway has awarded funding for the project, with construction start early 2013. See no:Hålogalandsbrua.
Sognebrua	Sognefjorden, Norway	3,700 m (12,100 ft)	Proposed	One of several proposals for crossing the 1300m deep fjord as part of making the E39 highway along Norway's west coast ferry-free. The bridge would utilize two towers 450 m tall and have a maximum clearance above water of 70 m. Plans call for the highway project, including this crossing, to finish by 2025.
Storfjord Bridge	Storfjorden, Norway	2,300 m (7,500 ft)	Plans under consideration	Will replace the ferry connecting the towns of Sykkylven and Ålesund as well as being part of the "ferry-free E39" project. Unusually, the proposed design will have the roadway split around single column towers.
Unnamed	Halsafjord, Norway	2,000 m (6,600 ft)	Proposed	The bridge will replace a ferry, and reduce the driving time between Trondheim and Molde by 34 minutes.

History of longest suspension spans

See also: Timeline of three longest spans

Bridge	Location	length m (ft)	Year became longest span	Notes
Maya Bridge at Yaxchilan	Mexico	62 m (203 ft)	600	Hemp-rope simple suspension footbridge. Existence unproven. No longer standing.
Chakzam Bridge	Tibet	137 m (449 ft)	1430	Chain suspension footbridge south of Lhasa, built by Thangtong Gyalpo. Reported still in use by British spies in 1878. Later (before 1904) fell into disuse after river course changed, swamping the northern end. Dynamited by Red Chinese soldiers after the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950.
Union Bridge	UK	137 m (449 ft)	1820	The oldest in the world still in use today.
Menai Suspension Bridge	UK	176 m (577 ft)	1826
Zähringen Bridge	Switzerland	271 m (889 ft)	1834	The bridge was removed in the 1920s.
Wheeling Suspension Bridge	West Virginia - Ohio	308 m (1,010 ft)	1849	The longest deck span from 1849 until 1866, and the oldest vehicular suspension bridge in use in the United States.
Queenston-Lewiston Bridge	USA and Canada	317 m (1,040 ft)	1851	The longest cable span from 1851 until it was destroyed by wind in 1864. However, the road deck span was only 258 meters long.
John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge	Kentucky - Ohio	322 m (1,056 ft)	1866
Niagara Clifton Bridge	USA and Canada	384 m (1,260 ft)	1869	Replaced in 1899.
Brooklyn Bridge	USA	486 m (1,594 ft)	1883
Williamsburg Bridge	USA	488 m (1,601 ft)	1903	It was the longest suspension span but not the longest span of all bridges. The Forth Railway Bridge with two spans of 521 m was longer.
Bear Mountain Bridge	USA	497 m (1,631 ft)	1924	It was the longest suspension span but not the longest span of all bridges. The Quebec Bridge with a span of 549 m was longer. The first suspension bridge to have a concrete deck. The construction methods pioneered in building it would make possible several much larger projects to follow.
Benjamin Franklin Bridge	Pennsylvania - New Jersey	533 m (1,749 ft)	1926	It was the longest suspension span but not the longest span of all bridges.
Ambassador Bridge	USA and Canada	564 m (1,850 ft)	1929	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	1,067 m (3,501 ft)	1931	The first span longer than 1 km.
Golden Gate Bridge	California	1,280 m (4,200 ft)	1937
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge	New York City	1,298 m (4,259 ft)	1964
Humber Bridge	Great Britain	1,410 m (4,630 ft)	1981
Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge	Japan	1,991 m (6,532 ft)	1998	The longest span since 1998. The first main span longer than 1-mile (1.6 km).

Sources:

Other record holding suspension bridges

The Menai Suspension Bridge

• Tacoma Narrows Bridges (Washington State) 853 m—1950 & 2007. The pair of bridges with the longest spans in the world (853 m).
• Si Du River Bridge (People's Republic of China) 2009 The highest bridge in the world (472 m).
• Tsing Ma Bridge (Hong Kong) 1997. The longest span carrying road and rail traffic (1,377 m).
• George Washington Bridge (New York - New Jersey). Suspension bridge with the most lanes of traffic (fourteen).
• Yi Sun-sin Bridge (South Korea) 2012. Suspension bridge with the tallest towers (270 meters).

See also

• List of spans (list of remarkable permanent wire spans)

References

Note: Some of the information posted on the following sites may differ from that above. As of 21 February 2006, the sites were out of date or inaccurate as noted in parenthesis

• Denenberg, David, Bridgemeister.com (an extensive inventory of roughly 2,000 suspension bridges)
• Janberg, Nicolas, Suspension bridges, Structurae.de (an extensive database of structures including many suspension bridges)
• Durkee, Jackson, "World's Longest Bridge Spans", National Steel Bridge Alliance, 24 May 1999 (out of date)
• The World's Greatest Bridges, Archive.org copy of The Bridge over the Strait of Messina website (out of date and other errors)
• List of longest spans, Pub Quiz Help (includes bridges that have not yet been completed)
• Steel bridges in the world, and other bridge statistics, The Swedish Institute of Steel Construction, March 2003 (out of date)
• Virola, Eur Ing Juhani, Two Millennia - Two Long-Span Suspension Bridges, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, ATSE Focus No 124, November/December 2002 (revised information up to date as of 2005)
• Virola, Eur Ing Juhani, World's Longest Bridge Spans Laboratory of Bridge Engineering (LBE), Helsinki University of Technology (includes bridges that have not yet been completed)

Further reading

• Podolny, Jr., Walter; Goodyear, David (2006). "Cable-suspended bridges". In Roger L. Brockenbrough. Structural steel designer's handbook : AISC, AASHTO, AISI, ASTM, AREMA, and ASCE-07 design standards (4 ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. pp. 15.13–15.16. ISBN 0071432183.  -- includes a list of major suspension bridges by length

External links

• Progress of Center Span on Long-Span Bridges at the Honshū—Shikoku Bridge Expressway Co.