Youyi Bridge

34°48′14.4″N 72°56′10.94″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.

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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]

References
  1. Inauguration ceremony for Youyi (Friendship) Bridge in Pakistan - China People Daily
  2. "As Prime Minister, I had renamed as YOUYI Bridge" Archived July 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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