Longest Bridge?

Question

Where is the longest bridge in the world? How about in the USA? Please tell me the location and the name so I can look it up on Google Earth. Thanks! The best one will get 5 points! : )

Answer 1

Mackinaw Bridge linking Michigan to its peninsula. Or, the bridge in Louisiana over the bayous?

Answer 2

Longest bridge in the world
Each weekday over 30,000 cars cross Lake Pontchartrain on the longest bridge in the world, The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana.The most familiar part of the system is the 24-mile long bridge which consists of two, 2-lane spans

World's Longest Suspension Bridge
The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, also known in Japan as the Pearl Bridge, has a record main span of 1,991 meters. By comparison, the bridge is 366 meters (almost ¼ mile) longer than the previous record holder, the StoreBaelt (East Bridge) in Denmark, which was also opened in 1998.

Longest suspension bridge in the U.S
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge vehicular suspension bridge, N.Y. city, across the Narrows at the entrance to N.Y. Harbor, linking the boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island with a main span of 4,260 ft.

Answer 3

I always thought the bridge over Chesapeake bay was the longest. At least it feels like the longest.

Whoops- I am wrong ,There are more contenders of the longest bridge category
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Contender two
This is the world's longest bridge - over 25 miles of raised road over Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans
Contender three
The new $1 billion Bang Na Expressway in Bangkok, Thailand, is not only the longest bridge in the world, but also represents the largest precasting operation ever carried out. The all-precast, prestressed concrete superstructure has a total length of 55 km (34 miles).
Contender four
SUTONG BRIDGE STATISTICS AND CONSTRUCTION

The Sutong Bridge project consists of three parts:

* Crossing engineering
* North bank linking engineering (15.1km, with two interchanges, a toll gate and a service zone)
* South bank linking engineering (9.1km, with one interchange)

The total length of the crossing is 8,206m

Answer 4

The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the World's Longest Bridge.

It consists of two parallel bridges that are the longest bridges in the world by total length. These parallel bridges cross Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louisiana. The southern terminus of the Causeway is in Metairie, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. The northern terminus is at Mandeville, Louisiana.

Try this link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&hl=en/&ll=30.102366,-90.124283&spn=0.856593,1.277161&t=k

Answer 5

The Mahatma Gandhi Setu bridge over the river Ganga in Patna is the international's longest river bridge. The bridge spans over 5.575 km from Hajipur on the north end to Patna on the south end. Patna is placed on the south financial business enterprise of the river Ganga. Patna has an rather long riverline, and this is surrounded on 3 aspects via rivers Ganga, Sone, and Punpun. just to the north of Patna around the river Ganga flows the river Gandak. Patna is a historic city and an important pilgrimage middle for Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains. Patna properties between the 5 Sikh Takhats -Takhat Patna Sahib. The Buddhist and Jain pilgrim centres of Vaishali, Rajgir or Rajgriha, Nalanda, Bodhgaya and Pawapuri are all close by. this is the suited gateway for all of the places in this circuit.

Answer 6

the Akashi Kaikyo bridge in Japan takes the title, with a main span of 1,991 meters (or 6,532 feet). There are bridges that actually cover longer distances, especially in the cable-stayed category, but the general rule in judging record-breaking bridges seems to be to consider the longest span, or the longest point-to-point connection without a pier or arch underneath.

Answer 7

the longest single span bridge was in the uk until last year , It is called the Humber bridge. It spans the river humber from hessle to barton uopn humber, The japanese have recntly built one just a few feet longer but you will need to google for the location in Japan.

Answer 8

The longest bridge in the world is in Canada. It is called the "Confederation Bridge". It connects P.E.I. to New Brunswick.
It is 12.9km (8miles) long.
Check it out at www.confederationbridge.com

Answer 9

I think China has the longest bridge,and in the US its probably in the florida keys.

Answer 10

I'm going to guess the "Seven Mile Bridge" in the Florida Keys.