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Jiaozhou Bay Bridge has three navigable sections: the Cangkou Channel Bridge to the west, the Dagu Channel Bridge to the east, and the Hongdao Channel Bridge to the north. The 600 metres (2,000 ft) long Cangkou Channel Bridge has the largest span of the entire Jiaozhou Bay Bridge,
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Jiaozhou Bay Connection Project consists of two non-connected sections: a 35.4 km (22.0 mi)-long expressway that includes the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge and a 6.17 km (3.83 mi)-long expressway that includes the Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Tunnel.
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Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is 26.7 km (16.6 mi), of which 25.9 km (16.1 mi) are over water, representing the aggregate length of three legs of the bridge.
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Hongdao Channel Bridge has a span of 120 m (390 ft). The non-navigable sections of the bridge have a span of 60 m (200 ft).
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Jiaozhou Bay Bridge had the first oversea interchange in the world and that it has the world's largest number of oversea bored concrete piles.
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1061:"China: The road to nowhere"
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174:35 m (115 ft)
1016:Guinness World Records
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183:Cangkou Channel Bridge
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1153:Road bridges in China
79:36.169913; 120.298305
604:Shandong Gaosu Group
588:Shandong Gaosu Group
425:kau-chiu-ôan tōa-kiô
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157:Prestressed concrete
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1065:The Financial Times
928:An (30 June 2011).
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703:Hangzhou Bay Bridge
586:The bridge builder
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676:Engineering portal
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293:青島膠州灣大橋
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