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The Shantou Bay Bridge is a
suspension bridge A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridges, which lack vertical ...
located in
Shantou Shantou, Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 2 ...
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Guangdong Province Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020 ...
, China. Built in 1995, it has a main span of . It is nicknamed "The Goddess of Bridges". The bridge carries the
G15 Shenyang–Haikou Expressway The Shenyang–Haikou Expressway (), designated as G15 and commonly referred to as the Shenhai Expressway () is an Expressways of China, expressway in China that connects the cities of Shenyang, Liaoning, and Haikou, Hainan. When fully complete, ...
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List of longest suspension bridge spans The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e. the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers). The length of main span is the most common method of comparing the sizes of suspen ...
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Mayu Island Mayu Island is a strategically located island in Shantou, Guangdong. It is unusual for having two Mazu temples on the same island. The island is located in the estuary of Shantou port, and has an area of 0.97 square kilometers, an elevation of ...
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Queshi Bridge The Queshi Bridge (), in Shantou, China, is among the world's longest bridges. Its long span of ranks it among the largest cable-stayed bridges in the world. See also * Shantou Bay Bridge * List of largest cable-stayed bridges This list ran ...


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* Bridges in Guangdong Suspension bridges in China Bridges completed in 1995 Transport in Shantou {{PRChina-bridge-struct-stub