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Kizuna Bridge

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Crosses
  
Mekong River

Total length
  
1,500 m

Body of water
  
Mekong

Opened
  
2001

Longest span
  
170 m

Kizuna Bridge

Address
  
ស្ពានទន្លេបិទ, Krong Kampong Cham, Cambodia

Locale
  
Kampong Cham District, Cambodia

Similar
  
Neak Loeung Bridge, Prek Tamak Bridge, Banteay Prey Nokor, Phnom Srei, Thanlwin Bridge

Kizuna bridge spanning the mighty mekong river in kampong cham cambodia


The Kizuna bridge (Khmer: ស្ពានគីសូណា) is a bridge on the Mekong River in the town of Kampong Cham and in the district of Kampong Cham.

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It was opened in 2001 and was the first bridge to be built over the Mekong river in Cambodia. Construction of the bridge was funded by a $56 million grant from the Japanese government. At 1500 metres it was the longest bridge in Cambodia until the construction of the Koh Kong Bridge, a 1900 metre Thai-Cambodian bridge in Koh Kong built in 2002. The Kizuna bridge links eastern and western Cambodia by road for the first time. Construction of the bridge began in 1999 and took three years to complete. An estimated 10,000 people crowded the bridge for the opening ceremony.

Before the Kizuna bridge was available, travel between the two sections of the country was difficult and slow.

Kizuna bridge entering kampong cham in cambodia


References

Kizuna Bridge Wikipedia