Youyi Bridge
Coordinates: 34°48′14.4″N 72°56′10.94″E / 34.804000°N 72.9363722°EThe Youyi Bridge (Chinese: 友誼橋, meaning Friendship Bridge, Urdu: دوستی کا پل) is a bridge on the Karakoram Highway at Thakot in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. 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.[1] The bridge was given its Chinese name in 2004 to honour the Chinese and Pakistani workers killed in the construction of the Karakoram Highway.[2]
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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
- Asian bridge (structure) stubs
- Pakistani building and structure stubs
- Pakistan transport stubs