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List of different types of bridges
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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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Image
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Longest span
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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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Natural occurring bridges
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