The Akashi-Kaikyō Bridge in Japan, the world's List of longest suspension bridge spans | longest suspension span.

Clearwater Cave, for example, has one of the world's longest underground rivers.

Canada and the United States are currently the world's largest trading partners, share the world's longest border, and have significant interoperability within the defence sphere.

Cambridge is also the birthplace of Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej ( Rama IX ), who is the world's longest reigning monarch at age 82 ( 2010 ), as well as the longest reigning monarch in Thai history.

The world's longest comic strip is long and on display at Trafalgar Square as part of the London Comedy Festival.

The Nile Valley and Delta, the most extensive oasis on earth, was created by the world's longest river and its seemingly inexhaustible sources.

Tsing Ma Bridge, part of Route 8 ( Hong Kong ) | Route 8, is List of longest suspension bridges | the world's longest rail and road suspension bridge s.

Queen Elizabeth II, one of the world's best-known and List of longest reigning monarchs of all time | longest-serving heads of state

Since 1999, the Isle of Man has received electricity through the world's longest submarine AC cable, the 90 kV Isle of Man to England Interconnector, as well as from a natural gas power station in Douglas, an oil power station in Peel and a small hydro-electric power station in Sulby Glen.

Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2012.

It would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years.

He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.

* 1983 – The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel ( 53. 85 km ) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.

* 2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two.

* One of the world's longest trains ( up to 2. 5 km long ) runs here, with more than 200 wagons mainly transporting iron ore, and some carriages for passengers ; alternatively, people sit on top of the iron piles.

The Ocean Ridge, the world's longest mountain range ( chain ), by USGS.

The Andes, the world's longest mountain range on the surface of a continent, seen from the air.

Above sea level the Andes is usually considered the world's longest mountain system ; it is in length.

The world's longest mountain system is known as Ocean Ridge, which is a chain of mountains that runs on the seafloor of five oceans around the world ; it has a length of, and the total length of the system is.

The Andes is the world's longest mountain system on the surface of a continent ; it is in length.

* Broadcasts were considerably improved in 1937 with the construction of beam antennas supported by the world's first wooden antenna masts rotatable on two concentric circular rails at the transmitter site in Huizen.

The photophone allowed for the transmission of sound on a beam of light, and on June 3, 1880 Bell and Tainter transmitted the world's first wireless telephone message on their newly invented form of telecommunication.

It is one of the world's best with respect to electron beam brilliance and stability.

This bridge is also historically significant as it is the world's oldest open-spandrel stone segmental arch bridge.

Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online and with friends at home, making it one of the world's most popular card games, particularly among seniors.

* 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.

A year later, the bridge was formally dedicated as the " world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages.

" This designation was chosen because the bridge would not be the world's longest using another way of measuring suspension bridges, the length of the center span between the towers ; at the time that title belonged to the Golden Gate Bridge, which has a longer center span.

* 1957 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.

* 1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic ( at the time it is the world's longest suspension bridge ).

** The Verrazano Narrows Bridge opens to traffic ( the world's longest suspension bridge at this time ).

* May 31 – The 13-kilometer Confederation Bridge, the world's longest bridge spanning ice covered waters, opens between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, Canada.

** The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens in the US to connect Michigan's two peninsulas.

Its span of 72 m ( 237 feet ) makes it the world's longest single-span vehicular bridge extant at this date.

* January 13 – Opening of the Milan – Venice railway's bridge over the Venetian Lagoon between Mestre and Venice in Italy, the world's longest since 1151.

Its span of 449 ft ( 137 m ) is the world's longest for a vehicular bridge at this time.

** The Iron Bridge is erected across the River Severn in Shropshire, the world's first bridge built entirely of cast iron.

The suspension bridge, known as the East Bridge, has the world's third longest main span ( 1. 6 km ), and the longest outside of Asia.

It is long with a free span of, making it the world's third-longest suspension bridge span, surpassed only by the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge and Xihoumen Bridge.

* The world's largest suspension bridge – the Strait of Messina Bridge – will be completed, connecting Sicily and mainland Italy.

In 1964, Ammann opened the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York, that had the world's longest suspended span of, and the world's heaviest suspension bridge of its time.