The Sami Bridge (; ; ) is a

cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which wire rope, cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or wikt:stay#Etymology 3, stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, norm ...

that carries the

European route E75 European route E 75 is part of the International E-road network, which is a series of main roads in Europe. The E 75 starts at the town of Vardø (town), Vardø in Norway by the Barents Sea, and it runs south through Finland, Poland, C ...

across the Tana River between

Finnmark Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...

county in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

and Utsjoki in

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

. The bridge is long, divided into four spans and the main span is . The Sami Bridge was opened in 1993. Before this, there was a ferry during summer and ice road in winter.

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Road Viaducts & Bridges in Norway (> 500 m)An image of the bridgeAnother image
Road bridges in Finnmark Cable-stayed bridges in Norway Cable-stayed bridges in Finland International bridges Finland–Norway border crossings Bridges completed in 1993 1993 establishments in Norway Utsjoki Buildings and structures in Lapland (Finland) {{Finland-transport-stub

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