List of longest suspension bridge spans

thumb|right|300px|The [[1915 Çanakkale Bridge in Turkey, opened in 2022, has the longest central span (2,023 m) of any suspension bridge. If one bridge has a longer span than another, it does not necessarily mean that the bridge is longer from shore to shore (or from abutment to abutment).

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 one kilometre (the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world has a 1,176 m span). Therefore, as of October 2025, the 28 longest bridges on this list are the 28 longest spans of all types of vehicular bridges.

The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge in Turkey holds the record since opening to traffic in March 2022, with a span of . Since 1998, the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan previously held the record with a span of , the Zhangjinggao Yangtze River Bridge in China will break the record in 2028 while the Strait of Messina Bridge in Italy will go to the top of the list in 2032.

Completed suspension bridges

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

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|150px||1915 Çanakkale Bridge||||||GeliboluLapseki, Dardanelles ||||

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|150px||Akashi Kaikyo Bridge||||||KobeAwaji Island, Hyōgo ||||

|150px||Nanjing Xianxin Yangtze River Bridge||||||Nanjing, Jiangsu ||||

|150px||Yangsigang Yangtze River Bridge||||||Wuhan, Hubei ||||

|||Nansha Bridge (East span)||||||NanshaDongguan, Guangdong ||||

|150px||Shenzhen–Zhongshan Bridge||||||ShenzhenZhongshan, Guangdong ||||

|150px||Xihoumen Bridge||||||Zhoushan, Zhejiang ||||

|150px||Great Belt Bridge||||||KorsørSprogø, Region Zealand ||||

|150px||Ningyang Yangtze River Bridge||||||NanjingYangzhou, Jiangsu ||||

|150px||Osman Gazi Bridge||||||DilovasıAltınova, Gulf of İzmit ||||

|150px||Yi Sun-sin Bridge||||||GwangyangYeosu, South Jeolla Province ||||

|150px||Runyang Yangtze River Bridge||||||YangzhouZhenjiang, Jiangsu ||||

|150px||Second Dongting Lake Bridge||||||Yueyang, Hunan ||||

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|Shuangliu Yangtze River Bridge

|WuhanEzhou, Hubei

|150px||Huajiang Canyon Bridge||||||Guanling CountyZhenfeng County, Guizhou ||||

|150px||Nanjing Qixiashan Yangtze River Bridge||||||Nanjing, Jiangsu ||||

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|150px||Humber Bridge||||||HessleBarton-upon-Humber, Yorkshire and the Humber ||||

|150px||Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge||||||Istanbul, Bosphorus ||||

|150px||Jin'an Jinsha River Bridge||||||Lijiang, Yunnan ||||

|150px||Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge||||||JiangyinJingjiang, Jiangsu ||||

|150px||Tsing Ma Bridge||||||Tsing YiMa Wan, Hong Kong ||||

|150px||Hardanger Bridge||||||UlvikEidfjord, Vestland ||||

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|150px||Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge||||||New York City, New York ||||

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|150px||Golden Gate Bridge||||||San FranciscoMarin County, California ||||

|150px||Yangluo Yangtze River Bridge||||||Wuhan, Hubei ||||

|150px||Höga Kusten Bridge||||||Utansjö, Västernorrland County ||||

|150px||Nansha Bridge (West span)||||||NanshaDongguan, Guangdong ||||

|150px||Chajiaotan Bridge||||||Xishui County, GuizhouGulin County, Sichuan ||||

|150px||Longjiang Bridge||||||Baoshan, Yunnan ||||

|150px||Aizhai Bridge||||||Jishou, Hunan ||||

|150px||Wujiagang Yangtze River Bridge||||||Yichang, Hubei ||||

|150px||Mackinac Bridge||||||Mackinaw CitySt. Ignace, Michigan ||||

|150px||Ulsan Bridge||||||Ulsan ||||

|150px||Hålogaland Bridge||||||Rombaken, Narvik ||||

|150px||Qingshui River Bridge||||||Kaiyang CountyWeng'an County, Guizhou ||||

|150px||Brăila Bridge||||||Brăila, Danube ||||

|150px||Huangpu Bridge||||||Guangzhou, Guangdong ||||

|150px||Minami Bisan-Seto Bridge||||||SakaideShiwaku Islands, Kagawa ||||

|150px||Xingkang Bridge||||||Luding County, Sichuan ||||

|150px||Kaizhou Lake Bridge||||||Kaiyang County, Guizhou ||||

|||Longmen Bridge (Guangxi)||||||Qinzhou, Guangxi ||||

|150px||Wufengshan Yangtze River Bridge||||||Zhenjiang, Jiangsu ||||

|150px||Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge||||||Istanbul, Bosphorus ||||

|150px||Baling River Bridge||||||Guanling County, Guizhou ||||

|150px||Taizhou Yangtze River Bridge||||||Taizhou, Jiangsu ||||

|150px||Ma'anshan Yangtze River Bridge||||||Ma'anshan, Anhui ||||

|150px||Zangkejiang Bridge||||||ShuichengPu'an, Guizhou ||||

|150px||Bosphorus Bridge||||||Istanbul, Bosphorus ||||

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|150px||George Washington Bridge||||||New York City, New YorkFort Lee, New Jersey ||||

|150px||Qipanzhou Yangtze River Bridge||||||Huangshi, Hubei ||||

|150px||Third Kurushima Kaikyō Bridge||||||ImabariUmashima, Ehime ||||

|150px||Second Kurushima Kaikyō Bridge||||||UmashimaŌshima, Ehime ||||

|||Xintian Yangtze River Bridge||||||Wanzhou, Chongqing ||||

|150px||25 de Abril Bridge||||||LisbonAlmada, Lisboa Region ||||

|150px||Forth Road Bridge||||||South QueensferryNorth Queensferry, Fife ||||

|150px||Yidu Yangtze River Bridge||||||Yidu, Hubei ||||

| colspan="7" |Continued by: main spans of 500-1000 meters

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.

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|||Strait of Messina Bridge||||||Messina, SicilyVilla San Giovanni, Calabria |||| -->

|150px||Zhangjinggao Yangtze River Bridge (South span)||||||ZhangjiagangJingjiangRugao, Jiangsu ||||

|||Second Sutong Yangtze River Bridge||||||SuzhouNantong, Jiangsu ||||

|||Jinwenlu Yangtze River Bridge 锦文路长江大桥|||| ||Nanjing, Jiangsu ||||

|||Shiziyang Bridge||||||GuangzhouDongguan, Guangdong ||||

|150px||Yanji Yangtze River Bridge||||||HuanggangEzhou, Hubei ||||

|||Shuangyumen Bridge||||||Zhoushan, Zhejiang ||||

|||Lugu Lake Bridge||||||Yanyuan County, Sichuan ||||

|||Hannan Yangtze River Bridge||||||WuhanXianning, Hubei ||||

|||Xiaowan Lancang River Bridge 小湾澜沧江特大桥||||||Fengqing County, Yunnan ||||

|||Xihoumen Rail/Road Bridge ||||||Zhoushan, Zhejiang ||||

|||Yongchang Lancang River Bridge ||||||Changning County, Yunnan ||||

|||Wuhu Taishan Road Yangtze River Bridge|||| ||Wuhu, Anhui ||||

|||Dahe Bridge 大河特大桥||||||Liupanshui, Guizhou ||||

|||Fuxing Yangtze River Bridge ||||||Yunyang County, Chongqing ||||

|150px||Zhangjinggao Yangtze River Bridge (North span)||||||ZhangjiagangJingjiangRugao, Jiangsu ||||

|||Nanjinguan Yangtze River Bridge ||||||Yichang, Hubei ||||

|||Wudongde Jinsha River Bridge 乌东德金沙江特大桥||||||Huidong County, SichuanLuquan County, Yunnan ||||

|||Chacao Channel bridge ||||||ParguaChacao, Los Lagos Region ||||

|150px||Libu Yangtze River Rail/Road Bridge ||||||Jingzhou, Hubei ||||

|||Xingyi Yangtze River Bridge||||||Fengdu, Chongqing ||||

|||Guangrui Yangtze River Bridge 广瑞长江大桥||||||Wuxue, HubeiRuichang, Jiangxi ||||

|||Chuandian Jinsha River Bridge ||||||Ningnan County, SichuanQiaojia County, Yunnan ||||

|||Sichuan-Tibet Railway Dadu River Bridge ||||||Luding County, Sichuan ||||

|||Sichuan-Tibet Railway Nu River Bridge||||||Pasho County, Tibet Autonomous Region ||||

|150px||Kahaluo Jinsha River Bridge ||||||Leibo County, SichuanYongshan County, Yunnan ||||

History of longest suspension spans

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| 150px Hypothesized support || Maya Bridge at Yaxchilan || || || 600–1430 || Hemp-rope simple suspension footbridge. Existence unproven. No longer standing.

Prior longest bridges are located in List of longest arch bridge spans.

Exceeded by the masonry arch Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge from 1377 to 1416, with main span of 72 m.

| 150px || Chushul Chakzam || Tibet || || 1430–1820 || Chain suspension footbridge south of Lhasa, built by Thangtong Gyalpo. Reported by British spies to still be in use in 1878. Later (before 1904) fell into disuse after river course changed, swamping the northern end. Dynamited by Chinese soldiers after the Battle of Chamdo in 1950.

| 150px || Union Chain Bridge || Scotland–England || || 1820–1826 || The oldest in the world still in use today.

| 150px || Menai Suspension Bridge || Wales || || 1826–1834 ||

| 150px || Great Suspension Bridge || Fribourg|| || 1834–1849 || The bridge was replaced by the in the 1920s.

| 150px || Wheeling Suspension Bridge || West Virginia || || 1849–1866 || The longest deck span from 1849 until 1866, and the oldest vehicular suspension bridge in use in the United States until 2019.

| 150px || Queenston-Lewiston Bridge || || || 1851–1866 || The longest cable span from 1851 until it was destroyed by wind in 1864. However, the road deck span was only 258 meters long.

| 150px || John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge || Kentucky–Ohio || || 1866–1869 ||

| 150px || Niagara Clifton Bridge || || || 1869–1883 || Replaced in 1899.

| 150px || Brooklyn Bridge || New York City || || 1883–1903 ||

| 150px || Williamsburg Bridge || New York City || || 1903–1924 || It was the longest suspension span but not the longest span of all bridges. The Forth Bridge, completed in 1890, a cantilever bridge with two spans of 521 m was longer until surpassed by the Quebec Bridge in 1917.

| 150px || Bear Mountain Bridge || New York || || 1924–1926 || It was the longest suspension span but not the longest span of all bridges. The Quebec Bridge completed in 1917, a cantilever bridge with a span of 549 m was longer until surpassed in 1929 by the Ambassador Bridge.

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.

| 150px || Benjamin Franklin Bridge || Pennsylvania–New Jersey|| || 1926–1929 || It was the longest suspension span but not the longest span of all bridges.

| 150px || Ambassador Bridge || || || 1929–1931 || Since this bridge was built, the record for longest bridge span has only been held by suspension bridges.

| 150px || George Washington Bridge || New York – New Jersey || || 1931–1937 || The first span longer than 1 km. Nearly double the length of any previously built bridge at the time of its opening.

| 150px || Golden Gate Bridge || California || || 1937–1964 || Also the longest bridge span in the world from 1937 to 1964

| 150px || Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge || New York City || || 1964–1981 || Also the longest bridge span in the world from 1964 to 1981

| 150px || Humber Bridge || Yorkshire || || 1981–1998 || Also the longest bridge span in the world from 1981 to 1998

| 150px || Akashi Kaikyo Bridge || || || 1998–2022 || Also the longest bridge span in the world from 1998 to 2022. The largest ever increase in length.

| 150px || Çanakkale 1915 Bridge || || || 2022–Present || The longest bridge span in the world since 2022. The first span longer than 2 km.

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Diagram of longest suspension spans

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| Zhangjinggao Yangtze River Bridge under construction ||

|150px||Sky Bridge 721||||||Dolní Morava, Pardubice Region ||||

|150px||||||||Willingen, Hesse ||||

|||Yundingfeidu Glass Footbridge||||||Xuanhan County, Sichuan ||||

|150px||||||||Canillo ||||

|||Haizhaigou UFO Glass Footbridge||||||Pingliang, Gansu ||||

|150px||Castelsaraceno Footbridge||||||Castelsaraceno, Potenza ||||

|||Gandaki Golden Footbridge||||||Parbat DistrictBaglung District ||||

|150px||Sellano Footbridge||||||Sellano, Perugia ||||

|||Wanjiazhai Dam Footbridge||||||Jungar Banner, Inner MongoliaPianguan County, Shanxi ||||

|150px||Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge||||||Randa, Valais ||||

Other record-holding suspension bridges

thumb|The Huajiang Canyon Bridge

Huajiang Canyon Bridge (China). Opened in 2025, it is the highest suspension bridge in the world at 625 m elevation.
Tacoma Narrows Bridges (Washington, United States). Opened in 1950 and 2007, the pair of bridges with the longest spans in the world ().
Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge (Turkey). Opened in 2016, it has the longest span carrying both road and rail traffic ().
George Washington Bridge (New York and New Jersey, United States). Opened in 1931, it is the suspension bridge with the most lanes of traffic (at fourteen total on two levels).
Kurushima Kaikyō Bridge (Japan). Opened in 1999, it is the world's longest suspension bridge structure.
Great Seto Bridge (Japan). Opened in 1978 and 1988, it is the longest two-tiered bridge system (but not all of the spans that make up the bridge system are suspension bridges).

Notes

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 parentheses

Denenberg, David, Bridgemeister.com (an extensive inventory of more than 8,400 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)

External links

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

List of longest suspension bridge spans

Completed suspension bridges

Bridges under construction

History of longest suspension spans

Diagram of longest suspension spans

Other record-holding suspension bridges

See also

Notes

References

Further reading

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