Øresundsbron
| Øresund Bridge Öresund Bridge |
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| Coordinates | 55°34′31″N 12°49′37″E / 55.57528°N 12.82694°E |
| Carries | Four lanes of European route E20 Double-track Oresund Line |
| Crosses | Øresund strait (the Sound) |
| Locale | Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden |
| Official name | Øresundsbroen, Öresundsbron |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Cable-stayed bridge |
| Total length | 7,845 metres (25,738 ft) |
| Width | 23.5 metres (77.1 ft) |
| Height | 204 metres (669 ft) |
| Longest span | 490 metres (1,608 ft) |
| Clearance below | 57 metres (187 ft) |
| History | |
| Designer | Jorgen Nissen, Klaus Falbe Hansen, Niels Gimsing and Georg Rotne |
| Engineering design by |
Ove Arup & Partners Setec Gimsing & Madsen |
| Constructed by | Hochtief, Skanska, Højgaard & Schultz and Monberg & Thorsen |
| Construction cost | 19.6 billion DKK 25.8 billion SEK 2.6 billion Euro |
| Opened | 1 July 2000 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | ca. 19,000 road vehicles (2014) |
| Toll | DKK 390, SEK 460 or € 54 |
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The Øresund/Öresund/Oresund Bridge (Danish: Øresundsbroen, pronounced [ˈøɐsɔnsˌbʁoˀːn̩]; Swedish: Öresundsbron, pronounced [œːrɛ²sɵnːdsˌbruːn]; hybrid name: Øresundsbron) is a combined railway and motorway bridge across the Øresund strait between Sweden and Denmark. The bridge runs nearly 8 kilometres (5 miles) from the Swedish coast to the artificial island Peberholm in the middle of the strait. The crossing is completed by the 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) Drogden Tunnel from Peberholm to the Danish island of Amager.
The Øresund Bridge is the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe and connects two major metropolitan areas: Copenhagen, the Danish capital city, and the Swedish city of Malmö. It connects the road and rail networks of the Scandinavian Peninsula with those of Central and Western Europe. A data cable also makes the bridge the backbone of internet data transmission between central Europe and Sweden/Finland.
The international European route E20 crosses via road, the Oresund Line via railway. The construction of the Great Belt Fixed Link, connecting Zealand to Funen and thence to the Jutland Peninsula, and the Øresund Bridge have connected Central and Western Europe to Scandinavia by road and rail.
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