The Thuận Phước Bridge ( vi, Cầu Thuận Phước) is a suspension bridge that crosses the lower Han River at Da Nang,

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. The four-lane, three-span, bridge is 1,850 meters long and 18 meters wide, and has a main span of 405 meters. Its two major pillars are 80m in height. It is the longest suspension bridge in Vietnam, with total investment of nearly 1 trillion dong. The bridge was built with an estimated cost of VND 650 billion (about 42 million US dollars). Consulting firms from China, Cuba and Canada provided assistance. The construction of the bridge, which began in 2003, was completed on 19 July 2009 when the

Prime Minister of Vietnam The prime minister of Vietnam ( vi, Thủ tướng Việt Nam), officially styled as the Prime Minister of the Government of the Socialist Republic ( vi, Thủ tướng Chính phủ nước Cộng hòa Xã hội chủ nghĩa), is the head of g ...

Nguyen Tan Dung Nguyễn () is the most common Vietnamese surname. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen. Nguyên (元）is a different word and surname. By some estimates 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this ...

and many high-ranking government officials attended the inauguration ceremony.

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The Thuan Phuoc Bridge at Bridgemeister.com
Road bridges in Vietnam Bridges completed in 2009 Bridges in Da Nang Suspension bridges in Vietnam {{Vietnam-bridge-struct-stub

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