List Of Largest Cable-stayed Bridges
This list ranks the world's cable-stayed bridges by the length of main span (distance between the suspension towers). The length of the main span is the most common way to rank cable-stayed bridges. If one bridge has a longer span than another it does not mean that the bridge is the longer from shore to shore or from anchorage to anchorage. However, the size of the main span does often correlate with the height of the towers and the engineering complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge.
Cable-stayed bridges with more than three spans are generally more complex, and bridges of this type generally represent a more notable engineering achievement even where their spans are shorter.
Cable-stayed bridges have the second-longest spans (after suspended-deck suspension bridges) of the types of bridge. They are practical for spans up to around 1 kilometer (0.6 mi). The Russky Island Bridge in Vladivostok, Russia with its 1,104 meters (3,622 ft) span has the largest span of any cable-stayed bridge; it replaced the Sutong Bridge over the Yangtze River in the People's Republic of China, with its largest span at 1,088 meters (3,570 ft), at this position on April 12, 2012.
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