turkey has a new bridge.br and it's big we mean really big the world's longest suspension bridge longest suspension bridge in the world has ever seen.br the bridge lies over the dardanelle straight linking turkeys east and west br it's the longest suspension bridge in the world spanning 4.6 kilometers across the dardanelle strait if you put it in london it would dominate the skyline and rise higher than the shard the tallest building in western europe .br this remarkable feat of engineering quite literally connects europe to asia and crosses one of the most important and busiest trade routes in the world.br but constructing it wasn't easy.br and the 2.8 billion megaproject had to withstand earthquakes storms .br this is how the world's longest suspension bridge was built br on the 18th of march 2022 turkey's president erdogan opened the shanakale bridge it finished 18 months ahead of schedule.br but had been a long time coming now the dardanelle straits always been a pretty critical piece of turkey's geography.br it's a narrow stretch of water that averages just four kilometers wide .br and it's vital in connecting the mediterranean to the black sea giving some of the most resource-rich countries access to the outside world.br bridge was assembled by an international team from all corners of the globe.br cranes were shipped from australia designs were drawn up in denmark and finance came from south korea all..