Longest Suspension Bridge Spans in the World
About This Dataset
Longest Suspension Bridge Spans in the World
The main span is the distance between a suspension bridge's two towers - the unsupported stretch, and the number engineers compete on. This chart ranks bridges by main span in metres and includes only spans already open to traffic.
Analysis
The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge has the longest main span at 2,023 metres, 32 metres longer than the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge. 7 of these 12 bridges are in China. Opening years tell the story of the discipline: the median here is 2019, and the shortest span shown, the Runyang Yangtze River Bridge at 1,490 metres, would have been a world record within living memory.
Key Findings
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1915 Çanakkale Bridge leads in Main span (metres) with 2,023.
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Average Main span (metres): 1,687 · median: 1,658.
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Gap: 1915 Çanakkale Bridge is 1.4× larger than Runyang Yangtze River Bridge.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia - List of longest suspension bridge spans
- Coverage
- 12 entities · 12 observations
- Measure
- Main span (metres)
- Last updated
- 10 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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