The Youyi Bridge (, meaning ''Friendship Bridge'', ur, دوستی کا پل) is a bridge on the

Karakoram Highway The Karakoram Highway ( ur, , translit=śāhirāh qarāquram; known by its initials KKH, also known as N-35 or National Highway 35 ( ur, ) or the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway) is a national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in ...

Thakot Thakot or Takot ( ur, ; ps, ) is a tribal town on the Indus River in Battagram District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is also one of twenty Union Councils of Battagram District, and one of twelve in Battagram Tehsil. Thakot is located mi ...

in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...

. Its inauguration was on August 27, 2004. The bridge spans the Indus river, and was constructed next to a bridge built between 1966 and 1978. The bridge was given its Chinese name in 2004 to honour the Chinese and Pakistani workers killed in the construction of the

."As Prime Minister, I had renamed as YOUYI Bridge"

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Bridges in Pakistan Bridges over the Indus River China–Pakistan border Battagram District Bridges completed in 1978 1978 establishments in Pakistan {{Pakistan-bridge-struct-stub