This article is about the structure. For the card game variants, see
Contract bridge.
This is a list of different types of bridges.
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Sub-type
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Length range
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| Arch bridge
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575 meters (Ping'nan Third Bridge, Guangxi, Southern China)
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| Through arch bridge
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| Beam bridge (Integral beam bridge)[1]
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| Log bridge (beam bridge)
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| Viaduct
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Cavity wall viaduct
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| Bowstring arch
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| Box girder bridge
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| Cable-stayed bridge
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1,104 m (Russky Bridge, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russian Far East)
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10,100 m (Jiashao Bridge, Zhejiang, China)
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| Cable-stayed suspension bridge hybrid
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Cable-stayed bridge and Suspension bridge
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1,408 m (4,619 ft)
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Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge,[2] Istanbul
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| Cantilever bridge
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549 m (Quebec Bridge)
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1042.6 m (Forth Bridge)
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| Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge
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| Clapper bridge
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| Covered bridge
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| Girder bridge
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| Continuous span girder bridge
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| Integral bridge
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| Extradosed bridge
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1,920 m Arrah–Chhapra Bridge
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| Moon bridge
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| Movable bridge
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| Pigtail bridge
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| Plate girder bridge
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| Pontoon bridge
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| Rigid-frame bridge
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| Roving bridge
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| Segmental bridge
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| Self-anchored suspension bridge
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| Side-spar cable-stayed bridge
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| Simple suspension bridge (Inca rope bridge)
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| Step-stone bridge
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| Stressed ribbon bridge
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| Suspension bridge
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| Transporter bridge
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| Trestle bridge
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| Truss arch bridge
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| Truss bridge
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Vierendeel bridge
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Brown truss
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| Covered bridge
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Burr Arch Truss
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Lattice truss bridge
(Town lattice truss)
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| Tubular bridge
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| Vlotbrug
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Naturally occurring bridges
See also
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