Longest Suspension Bridge spans
This list of suspension bridges ranks the world's suspension bridges by the length of main span (distance between the suspension towers).
The length of main span is the most common method of comparing the sizes of suspension bridges. The length of the main span often correlates with the height of the towers and the engineering complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge. This ranking does not take into account length from shore to shore or from anchorage to anchorage.
Suspension bridges have the longest spans of any type of bridge. Cable-stayed bridges, the next longest design, are practical for spans up to around one kilometer. So the top 23 bridges on this list are also currently the longest 23 spans of all types of vehicular bridges. The Tatara Bridge has the largest span of any cable-stayed bridge at 890 meters. It was originally planned as a suspension bridge, but the design was changed to a cable-stayed bridge for environmental reasons. Two cable-stayed bridges with even longer spans are currently under construction in China. The longest of these (Sutong Bridge, 1088m) will be longer than all but the top twelve bridges on this list.
Completed suspension bridges
This list only includes bridges that carry automobiles or trains. It does not include cable-stayed bridges, footbridges or pipeline bridges.
| # | Name | Location | Main span in metres (feet) |
Comp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge (The largest from 1998 to the present) |
Kobe-Naruto Route, Japan |
1,991 (6,529) |
1998 |
| 2 | Great Belt Bridge (also known as the Storeb?lt Bridge; Danish: Storeb?ltsbroen) | Halsskov-Sprog?, Denmark |
1,624 (5,328) |
1998 |
| 3 | Runyang Bridge | Yangtze River, China |
1,490 (4,888) |
2005 |
| 4 | Humber Bridge (The largest from 1981 until 1998) |
Barton-upon-Humber, United Kingdom |
1,410 (4,626) |
1981 |
| 5 | Jiangyin Suspension Bridge | Yangtze River, China |
1,385 (4,543) |
1999 |
| 6 | Tsing Ma Bridge (the largest carrying road and rail traffic) |
Tsing Yi-Ma Wan, Hong Kong, China |
1,377 (4,518) |
1997 |
| 7 | Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (The largest from 1964 until 1981) |
New York City (Brooklyn?Staten Island), USA |
1,298 (4,260) |
1964 |
| 8 | Golden Gate Bridge (The largest from 1937 until 1964) |
San Francisco-Marin County, CA, USA |
1,280 (4,200) |
1937 |
| 9 | H?gakustenbron (High Coast Bridge) | ?ngerman?lven river , Sweden |
1,210 (3,970) |
1997 |
| 10 | Mackinac Bridge | Mackinaw City - St. Ignace, Michigan USA |
1,158 (3,800) |
1957 |
| 11 | Minami Bisan-Seto Bridge (Great Seto Bridge) | Kojima-Sakaide Route, Japan |
1,118 (3,609) |
1988 |
| 12 | Fatih Sultan Mehmet (Second Bosporus Bridge) | Istanbul, Turkey |
1,090 (3,576) |
1988 |
| 13 | Bogazi?i (First Bosporus Bridge) | Istanbul, Turkey |
1,074 (3,524) |
1973 |
| 14 | George Washington Bridge (The largest from 1931 until 1937) |
Fort Lee, NJ - New York, NY, USA |
1,067 (3,500) |
1931 |
| 15 | Third Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge | Onomichi-Imabari Route, Japan |
1,030 (3,379) |
1999 |
| 16 | Second Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge | Onomichi-Imabari Route, Japan |
1,020 (3,346) |
1999 |
| 17 | Ponte 25 de Abril (Tagus Bridge) | Lisbon, Portugal |
1,013 (3,323) |
1966 |
| 18 | Forth Road Bridge | Firth of Forth, United Kingdom |
1,006 (3,300) |
1964 |
| 19 | Kita Bisan-Seto Bridge (Great Seto Bridge) | Kojima-Sakaide Route, Japan |
990 (3,248) |
1988 |
| 20 | Severn Bridge | Bristol Channel, United Kingdom |
988 (3,240) |
1966 |
| 21 | Shimotsui-Seto Bridge (Great Seto Bridge) | Kojima-Sakaide Route, Japan |
940 (3,084) |
1988 |
| 22 | Xiling Bridge | Yichang (Yangtze River), China |
900 (2,952) |
1996 |
| 23 | Humen Pearl River Bridge | Dongguan (Pearl River), Guangdong province, China |
888 (2,913) |
1997 |
| 24 | Ohnaruto Bridge | Kobe-Naruto Route, Japan |
876 (2,874) |
1985 |
| 25 | Tacoma Narrows Bridge (westbound) | Tacoma, WA, USA |
853 (2,800) |
1950 |
| 26 | Tacoma Narrows Bridge (eastbound) | Tacoma, WA, USA |
853 (2,800) |
2007 |
| 27 | Ask?y Bridge | Bergen, Norway |
850 (2,789) |
1992 |
| 28 | Innoshima Bridge | Onomichi-Imabari Route, Japan |
770 (2,526) |
1983 |
| 29 | Akinada Bridge | Akinada Islands (Hiroshima Pref.), Japan |
750 (2,461) |
2000 |
| 30 | Semipalatinsk Bridge | Semipalatinsk (Irtysh river), Kazakhstan |
750 (2,461) |
2000 |
| 31 | Al Zampa Memorial Bridge (New Carquinez Bridge) | Carquinez Strait, CA, USA |
728 (2,388) |
2003 |
| 32 | Hakucho Bridge | Muroran (Hokkaido Pref.), Japan |
720 (2,362) |
1998 |
| 33 | Angostura Bridge | Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela |
712 (2,336) |
1967 |
| 34 | Kanmonkyo Bridge | Honshu-Kyushu, Japan |
712 (2,336) |
1973 |
| 35 | San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Yerba Buena Island to anchorage) | San Francisco - Oakland, CA, USA |
704 (2,310) |
1936 |
| 36 | San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (San Francisco to anchorage) | San Francisco - Oakland, CA, USA |
704 (2,310) |
1936 |
| 37 | Bronx Whitestone Bridge | New York, NY, USA |
701 (2,300) |
1939 |
| 38 | Stord Bridge | Stord, Norway |
677 (2,221) |
2001 |
| 39 | Pierre Laporte Bridge | Quebec City, Canada |
668 (2,190) |
1970 |
| 40 | Delaware Memorial Bridge I | New Castle, DE - Pennsville, NJ, USA |
655 (2,150) |
1951 |
| 41 | Delaware Memorial Bridge II | New Castle, DE - Pennsville, NJ, USA |
655 (2,150) |
1968 |
| 42 | Haicang Bridge | Xiamen, Fujian Province, China |
648 (2,126) |
1999 |
| 43 | Gjemnessund Bridge | Kristiansund, Norway |
623 (2,044) |
1992 |
| 44 | Walt Whitman Bridge | Philadelphia, PA USA |
610 (2,000) |
1957 |
| 45 | Tancarville Bridge | Le Havre, France |
608 (1,995) |
1959 |
| 46 | New Little Belt Bridge | Little Belt, Denmark |
600 (1,969) |
1970 |
| 47 | First Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge | Onomichi-Imabari Route, Japan |
600 (1,969) |
1999 |
| 48 | E'gongyan Bridge | Chongqing, Sichuan Province, China (Yangtze River) |
600 (1,969) |
2000 |
| 49 | Oster?y Bridge | Oster?y, Norway |
595 (1,952) |
1997 |
| 50 | B?mla Bridge | B?mlo, Norway |
577 (1,893) |
2001 |
| 51 | Rainbow Bridge | Tokyo, Japan |
570 (1,870) |
1993 |
| 52 | Ambassador Bridge (The largest from 1929 until 1931) | Detroit, MI, USA - Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
564 (1,850) |
1929 |
| 53 | Hakata-Ohshima Bridge | Onomichi-Imabari Route, Japan | 560 | 1988 |
| 54 | Throgs Neck Bridge | New York, NY, USA |
549 (1,800) |
1961 |
| 55 | Benjamin Franklin Bridge (The largest from 1926 until 1929) | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
533 (1,750) |
1926 |
| 56 | Skjomen Bridge | Narvik, Norway | 525 | 1972 |
| 57 | Kvalsund Bridge | Hammerfest, Norway | 525 | 1977 |
| 58 | Matadi Bridge | Matadi, Zaire | 520 | 1983 |
| 59 | Kleve-Emmerich Bridge | Emmerich, Germany | 500 | 1965 |
| 60 | Dazi Bridge | Dazi , China | 500 | 1984 |
| 61 | Gwangan Bridge | Busan, South Korea | 500 | 2002 |
| 62 | Bear Mountain Bridge (The largest from 1924 until 1926) | Peekskill, NY, USA |
497 (1,632) |
1924 |
| 63 | Williamsburg Bridge (The largest from 1903 until 1924) | New York, NY, USA |
488 (1,600) |
1903 |
| 64 | W. Preston Lane Memorial Bridge I | Chesapeake Bay, MD, USA |
488 (1,600) |
1952 |
| 65 | Newport Bridge (Sen. Claiborne Pell Bridge) | Newport, Rhode Island, RI, USA |
488 (1,600) |
1969 |
| 66 | W. Preston Lane Memorial Bridge II | Chesapeake Bay, MD, USA |
488 (1,600) |
1973 |
| 67 | Brooklyn Bridge (The largest from 1883 until 1903.) | New York, NY, USA |
486 (1,596) |
1883 |
| 68 | Lions' Gate Bridge | Vancouver, Canada |
473 (1,550) |
1938 |
| 69 | Sotra Bridge | Bergen, Norway | 468 | 1971 |
| 70 | Hirado Bridge | Hirado Island , Japan | 460 | 1977 |
| 71 | Vincent Thomas Bridge | San Pedro, CA, USA |
457 (1,550) |
1963 |
| 72 | Mid-Hudson Bridge | Poughkeepsie, NY, USA |
456 (1,495) |
1930 |
| 73 | Shantou Bay Bridge | Guangdong province, China | 452 | 1996 |
| 74 | Fengdu Bridge | Sichuan (Yangtze River), China | 450 | 1996 |
| 75 | Manhattan Bridge | New York, NY, USA |
448 (1,470) |
1909 |
| 76 | Lysefjord Bridge | Rogaland, Norway | 446 | 1997 |
| 77 | Angus L. Macdonald Bridge | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
441 (1,447) |
1955 |
| 78 | A. Murray MacKay Bridge | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
427 (1,400) |
1970 |
| 79 | Triborough Bridge | New York, NY, USA |
421 (1,380) |
1936 |
| 80 | ?lvsborg Bridge | Gothenburg, Sweden | 417 | 1966 |
| 81 | Namhae Bridge | Namhae, South Korea | 404 | 1973 |
| 82 | Aquitaine Bridge | Bordeaux, France | 394 | 1967 |
| 83 | Amu Daria River Bridge | Bukhara, Uzbekistan | 390 | 1964 |
| 84 | Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge | Cologne, Germany | 378 | 1954 |
| 85 | St. Johns Bridge | Portland, OR, USA |
368 (1,207) |
1931 |
| 86 | Wakato Narrows Bridge | Kitakyushu, Japan | 367 | 1962 |
| 87 | Mount Hope Bridge | Mount Hope Bay, RI, USA |
366 (1,200) |
1929 |
| 88 | Ogdensburg Prescott International Bridge (Seaway Skyway) | Ogdensburg, NY, USA - Prescott, Ontario, Canada |
351 (1151) |
1960 |
| 89 | Hercilio Luz Bridge | Florianopolis, Brazil | 340 | 1926 |
| 90 | Bidwell Bar Bridge | Oroville, CA, USA |
338 (1,108) |
1965 |
| 91 | Varodd Bridge | Kristiansand, Norway | 337 | 1956 |
| 92 | Tamar Bridge | Plymouth-Saltash, United Kingdom |
335 (1,100) |
1961 |
| 93 | Deer Isle Bridge | Penobscot Bay, ME, USA |
329 (1,088) |
1939 |
| 94 | Otto Beit Bridge | Chirundu Zambia/Zimbabwe | 328 | 1939 |
| 95 | Rombak Bridge | Nordland, Norway | 325 | 1964 |
| 96 | Simon Kenton Bridge | Maysville, KY, USA |
323 (1,060) |
1932 |
| 97 | ?le d'Orl?ans Bridge | Quebec City, Canada |
323 (1,059) |
1936 |
| 98 | John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge (The largest from 1867 until 1883) | Cincinnati, OH, USA |
322 (1,057) |
1867 |
| 99 | Dent Bridge | Orofino, ID, USA |
320 (1,050) |
1971 |
| 100 | Cologne Mulheim Bridge | Cologne, Germany | 315 | 1951 |
| 101 | Wheeling Suspension Bridge (The largest from 1849 until 1851) | Wheeling, WV, USA |
308 (1,010) |
1849 |
| 102 | Konohana Bridge | Osaka, Japan | 300 | 1987 |
| 103 | Chavanon Viaduct | Merlines and Messeix, France (Chavanon Valley) | 300 | 2000 |
| 104 | Yeongjong Grand Bridge (the largest self-anchored suspension bridge) | Incheon, South Korea | 300 | 2000 |
| 105 | Elizabeth Bridge | Budapest, Hungary | 290 | 1964 |
| 106 | Tjeldsund Bridge | Bjerkvik, Norway | 290 | 1967 |