Tsubasa Bridge ( km, ស្ពានត្សឹបាសា), also known as Neak Loeung Bridge (), links Kandal Province with the town of Neak Loeung, Prey Veng Province in Cambodia, on the heavily travelled Highway 1 between Phnom Penh, and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

Construction

This 2.2 km

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eliminated a ferry crossing and is the longest bridge across the

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in Cambodia, 300 metres longer than its nearest rival, the Koh Kong Bridge. The project includes the main cable-stayed section totalling 640m, two composite girder approach sections of 900m and 675m, and approach embankments totalling 3.1 km. The inauguration ceremony to begin construction occurred on February 12, 2011. The bridge opened to traffic in April 2015. It was funded and built by a Japanese government donation (Cambodia's third Japanese donated bridge) and its image appears on the new 500

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note. The bridge is part of a larger programme of works to improve connectivity along Asian Highway 1 from Thailand to Vietnam.

Images

File:Neak_Loeung_Bridge_(Tsubasa_Bridge).jpg, Neak Loeung Bridge or Tsubasa Bridge File:Neak_Loeung_Bridge_November_2021.jpg, Tsubasa Bridge

References

External links

{{- Bridges over the Mekong River Cable-stayed bridges Road bridges in Cambodia Buildings and structures in Kandal province Buildings and structures in Prey Veng province Bridges completed in 2015 2015 establishments in Cambodia Cambodia–Japan relations