Oresund Bridge

The Oresund Bridge is a combined two-track rail and four-lane road bridge across the Oresund strait.The bridge-tunnel is the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe and connects the two metropolitan areas of the Oresund Region: the Danish capital of Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmö. The international European route E20 runs across the bridge. This bridge has one of the longest cable-stayed main spans in the world, at 490 metres. The height of the highest pillar is 204 metres and the total length of the bridge is 7,845 metres, (approximately half the distance between the Swedish and Danish landmasses) and weights 82 million kilograms!  The rest of the distance is spanned by the artificial island Peberholm, followed by a tunnel on the Danish side. The tunnel is 4,050 m long, with 3,510 m long buried undersea, plus two 270 m gate tunnels. The two rail-tracks are beneath the four road lanes, and the bridge has a vertical clearance of 57 metres.