The world's most expensive bridge costs £15.2bn and is made of 400,000 tonnes of steel

The world's most expensive bridge holds an impressive number of world records. (Image: Getty) Crossing the Pearl River Estuary is the world’s most expensive bridge, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB). At 34 miles long, it holds many other records including the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge and used a staggering amount of steel in its construction.

Completed in 2018, two years behind schedule, the bridge connects Hong Kong , the major city of Zhuhai and Macau , a special administrative region of China . It consists of three cable-stayed bridges, an undersea tunnel and four artificial islands. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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