Tana Bridge
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Tana Bridge is a suspension bridge
Suspension bridge
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. Outside Tibet and Bhutan, where the first examples of this type of bridge were built in the 15th century, this type of bridge dates from the early 19th century...

 that crosses Tana
Tana River (Norway)
Tana river , is a long river in Sápmi, in the Norwegian county of in Finnmark and the Lapland of Finland. The Sámi name means "Great River". The main tributaries of Tana are Anarjohka and Karasjohka....

 river in Finnmark
Finnmark
or Finnmárku is a county in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland to the south and Russia to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, and the Barents Sea to the north and northeast.The county was formerly known as Finmarkens...

 county in Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It is located in the small city also called Tana bru
Tana Bru
Tana bru is the administrative centre of Deatnu - Tana municipality, Norway. Its population is 590.See also Tana Bridge....

. The bridge is 220 metres long, and the main span is 194 metres.

Tana Bridge was opened in 1948.
It is the only bridge over the lowest 100 km of the Tanaelva, and the only one over Tanaelva inside Norway. There was a predecessor which was destroyed in 1944 during the war.
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