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 |
1849 | Chain (Széchenyi Lánchíd) | Budapest, Hungary | Danube River | 47.49945 N 19.046567 E | 203 | Images |
1864 | Clifton | Bristol, England, United Kingdom | River Avon | 51.45496 N 2.62781 W | 213.97 | Images |
1883 | Brooklyn (Great East River) | New York and Brooklyn, New York, USA | East River | 40.706 N 73.99667 W | 486.31 | 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 |
1937 | Golden Gate | San Francisco and Marin County, California, USA | San Francisco Bay | 37.82 N 122.47667 W | 1,280.16 | 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 |
1973 | Bosporus (Bogaziçi, 15 July Martyrs, First, Bosphorus) | Istanbul, Türkiye | Bosporus Strait | 41.046655 N 29.033788 E | 1,073.81 | |
1998 | Akashi Kaikyo (明石海峡大橋) | Maiko, Tarumi-ward, Kobe and Matsuho, Awaji Island, Hyogo, Japan | Akashi Strait | 34.630617 N 135.0327 E | 1,991 | 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 |