This is a list of the world's longest bridges more than two kilometres long sorted by their full length above land or water. "Span" refers to the longest spans without any ground support.
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Note: There is no standard way to measure the total length of a bridge. Some bridges are measured from the beginning of the entrance ramp to the end of the exit ramp. Some are measured from shoreline to shoreline. Yet others are the length of the total construction involved in building the bridge. Since there is no standard, no ranking of a bridge should be assumed because of its position in th...
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT) is a long fixed link crossing the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and connecting the Delmarva Peninsula's Eastern Shore of Virginia with Virginia Beach and the metropolitan area of Hampton Roads, Virginia. It replaced vehicle ferry services which operated from South Hampton Roads and from the Virginia Peninsula from the 1930s until completion of the bridge-tunnel in 1964.
The bridge-tunnel originally combined of trestle, two long tunnels, four artificial islands, two high-level bridges, approximately of causeway, and of approach roads—crossing th...
