Note: Completion year and longest suspended span length may not be known for all bridges listed below.
Also, span lengths are sometimes estimated based on satellite imagery.
Year Completed |
Bridge |
Location |
Crossing - Feature |
Coordinates |
Longest Suspended Span (meters) |
Images |
Year Completed |
Bridge |
Location |
Crossing - Feature |
Coordinates |
Longest Suspended Span (meters) |
Images |
1820 | Union | Horncliffe, Berwick-upon-Tweed vicinity, England and Fishwick, Scotland, United Kingdom | River Tweed | 55.75256 N 2.10677 W | 136.86 | Images |
1826 | Conwy (Conway) | Conwy, Wales, United Kingdom | River Conwy | 53.280476 N 3.823742 W | 99.67 | Images |
1826 | Menai Strait | Menai Bridge and Bangor vicinity, Wales, United Kingdom | Menai Strait | 53.221367 N 4.1646 W | 176.48 | Images |
1849 | Chain (Széchenyi Lánchíd) | Budapest, Hungary | Danube River | 47.49945 N 19.046567 E | 203 | Images |
1849 | Wheeling (Wheeling and Belmont) | Wheeling, West Virginia, USA | Ohio River | 40.07167 N 80.72667 W | 307.85 | Images |
1850 | (footbridge) | Brahesborg Estate, Assens, Denmark | | 55.279684 N 9.950276 E | | |
1854 | Oich (Aberchalder) | Invergarry vicinity, Scotland, United Kingdom | River Oich | 57.093377 N 4.745271 W | | Images |
1860 | Ponte delle Catene (Catena, Bridge of Chains) | Fornoli, Bagni di Lucca and Chifenti, Italy | Lima River | 44.006048 N 10.562356 E | | Images |
1864 | Clifton | Bristol, England, United Kingdom | River Avon | 51.45496 N 2.62781 W | 213.97 | Images |
1867 | John A. Roebling (Cincinnati, Cincinnati and Covington) | Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, USA | Ohio River | 39.09167 N 84.50833 W | 322.17 | Images |
1868 | Wire | New Portland, Maine, USA | Carrabasset River | 44.890783 N 70.0925 W | 60.47 | Images |
1869 | Waco | Waco, Texas, USA | Brazos River | 31.561314 N 97.127063 W | 144.78 | Images |
1883 | Brooklyn (Great East River) | New York and Brooklyn, New York, USA | East River | 40.706 N 73.99667 W | 486.31 | Images |
1905 | Cambus O'May (Gordon) | Ballater, Scotland, United Kingdom | River Dee | 57.065803 N 2.956825 W | 51.82 | Images |
1905 | Priorsford | Peebles, Scotland, United Kingdom | River Tweed | 55.649532 N 3.187578 W | 29.57 | Images |
1909 | Manhattan | New York and Brooklyn, New York, USA | East River | 40.70667 N 73.99167 W | 448.06 | Images |
1917 | (suspension bridge) | Skhirat, Rabat vicinity, Morocco | Oued Cherrat | 33.814930 N 7.110061 W | 102.41 | |
1927 | Port à l'Anglais | Alfortville and Vitry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France | Seine River | 48.797333 N 2.41875 E | 124 | Images |
1928 | Tarassac | St. Martin-de-l'Arcon vicinity, Hérault, France | Orb River | 43.564766 N 2.974529 E | 104.24 | Images |
1929 | Grand Mère | Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada | St. Maurice River | 46.620117 N 72.6794 W | 289.19 | Images |
1929 | Royal Gorge | Canon City, Colorado, USA | Arkansas River | 38.46129 N 105.32541 W | 268.22 | Images |
1931 | George Washington (GWB) | New York, New York and Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA | Hudson River | 40.85333 N 73.955 W | 1,066.8 | Images |
1931 | St. Johns | Portland, Oregon, USA | Willamette River | 45.585 N 122.76333 W | 367.89 | Images |
1936 | San Francisco-Oakland Bay | Oakland and San Francisco, California, USA | San Francisco Bay | 37.78667 N 122.39 W | 678 | Images |
1937 | Golden Gate | San Francisco and Marin County, California, USA | San Francisco Bay | 37.82 N 122.47667 W | 1,280.16 | Images |
1950 | Tacoma Narrows (Sturdy Gertie, Second Tacoma Narrows) | Tacoma and Gig Harbor, Washington, USA | Puget Sound | 47.270540 N 122.552895 W | 853.44 | Images |
1957 | Mackinac (Mighty Mac) | St. Ignace and Mackinaw City, Michigan, USA | Straits of Mackinac | 45.820533 N 84.727667 W | 1,158.24 | Images |
1964 | Forth Road | Queensferry, Scotland, United Kingdom | Firth of Forth | 56.004020 N 3.404095 W | 1,006 | Images |
1964 | Verrazzano Narrows (Verrazano Narrows) | Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York, USA | Verrazano Narrows | 40.60667 N 74.045 W | 1,298.45 | Images |
1966 | 25 de Abril (Tagus, Salazar, April 25th) | Lisbon, Portugal | Tagus River | 38.6968 N 9.179 W | 1,012.85 | Images |
1981 | Humber | Hull, Humberside, England, United Kingdom | Humber River | 53.70654 N 0.44997 W | 1,410 | Images |
1992 | Askøy | Askøy, Vestland and Olsvik, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway | Byfjorden | 60.396143 N 5.214690 E | 850 | |
1997 | Höga Kusten (High Coast) | Veda, Sweden | Ångermanälven River | 62.7984 N 17.93915 E | 1,210 | Images |
1998 | Great Belt (Great Belt Fixed Link, Storebaelt, East, Storebælt, East Belt) | Korsør and Nyborg, Denmark | Great Belt - Storebaelt | 55.342087 N 11.036430 E | 1,624 | Images |
1999 | Jiangyin | Jiangyin (江阴市), Wuxi (无锡市) and Jingjiang (靖江市), Taizhou (泰州市), Jiangsu, China | Yangtze River | 31.943965 N 120.273911 E | 1,385 | |