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FAST FACTS
Millau bridge deck 5 x The bridge’s steel deck
40,000 tons Eiffel Towers contains enough steel to
(36,000 metric tons) make five Eiffel towers.
The deck was built in a
total of 2,200 separate
sections that were welded Each of the longest cables
together into two halves, on the viaduct is strong enough
then pushed out toward to withstand the thrust of eight
each other from opposite Boeing 747 airliners at
sides of the valley. maximum thrust.
The Millau Viaduct carries
the road from Montpellier,
in southern France, to Paris.
How tall is The bridge is 8,070 ft (2,460 m)
the tallest opened in 2004.
long and was
bridge?
The Millau Viaduct,
which spans the valley
of the Tarn River in
France, is the tallest
bridge in the world.
Its largest mast is
1,125 ft (343 m) above
the base, where it
meets the valley floor.
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