1915 Çanakkale Bridge
The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge (Turkish: 1915 Çanakkale Köprüsü) is a road suspension bridge in the province of Çanakkale in northwestern Turkey. Situated just south of the coastal towns of Lapseki and Gelibolu, the bridge spans the Dardanelles, about 10 km (6.2 mi) south of the Sea of Marmara. The bridge was officially opened by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 18 March 2022 after roughly five years of construction. The year "1915" in the official Turkish name honours an important Ottoman naval victory against the navies of the United Kingdom and France during World War I.
1915 Çanakkale Bridge Dardanelles Bridge 1915 Çanakkale Köprüsü Çanakkale Boğaz Köprüsü | |
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Çanakkale bridge, nearing completion, March 2022 | |
| Coordinates | 40°20′24″N 26°38′10″E |
| Carries | 6 lanes of O-6 Maintenance walkways on each side |
| Crosses | Dardanelles |
| Locale | Çanakkale Province, Turkey |
| Official name | 1915 Çanakkale Köprüsü |
| Website | 1915canakkale |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Suspension |
| Total length | 4,608 m (15,118 ft) |
| Width | 45.06 m (148 ft) |
| Height | 334 m (1,096 ft) |
| Longest span | 2,023 m (6,637 ft) |
| Clearance below | 70 m (230 ft) |
| History | |
| Designer | COWI A/S and PEC (Pyunghwa Engineering Consultants) |
| Constructed by | Daelim, Limak, SK, Yapı Merkezi |
| Construction start | March 2017 |
| Construction end | 26 February 2022 |
| Opened | 18 March 2022 |
| Statistics | |
| Toll | ₺280 |
| Location | |
The bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the world—with a main span of 2,023 m (2.023 km; 1.257 mi), the bridge surpasses the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (1998) in Japan by 32 m (105 ft). It is the centrepiece of the planned 321-kilometre long (199 mi) US$2.8 billion O-6 motorway, which will connect the O-3 and O-7 motorways in East Thrace to the O-5 motorway in Anatolia.
The bridge is the first fixed crossing over the Dardanelles and the sixth one across the Turkish Straits, after three bridges over the Bosphorus and two tunnels under it.