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The Oresund Bridge

The Oresund Bridge (joint Danish is one of the Scandinavian languages, a sub-group of the Germanic group of the Indo-European language family. History Most Danish words are derived from the Old Norse language, with new words formed by compounding. A large percentage of Danish words, however, hails from Low German (e.g... Danish/ Swedish (svenska listen?) is a Scandinavian language language spoken predominantly in Sweden, Finland and Åland by over 8 million native speakers. Swedish is closely related to, and usually mutually intelligible with, Danish and Norwegian and to some degree with Faroese. Swedish began to evolve as a seperate language... Swedish hybrid name: Øresundsbron) is a combined two-track Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. These consist of two parallel rails, usually of steel, generally mounted upon cross-sectional beams (termed sleepers or ties) of timber, concrete or other material. The underlying support maintains the rails at a fixed distance... rail and four-lane road This article is about the edifice. For other meanings, see Bridge (disambiguation). Sydney Harbour Bridge - probably the best known of suspended deck compression arch bridges A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, river, body of water, or any other physical obstacle. The purpose... bridge across the Northern Öresund Oresund (Öresund in Swedish or Øresund in Danish) or The Sound, is the strait that separates Zealand from Scania, and thereby Denmark from Sweden. Oresund connects the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic Ocean (via Kattegat, Skagerrak, and the North Sea), and is one of the busiest waterways in... Oresund strait. It is the longest bridge in Europe and connects the two A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs. A metropolitan area usually combines an agglomeration (the contiguous... metropolitan areas of the The Oresund Region (Øresundsregionen in Danish or Öresundsregionen in Swedish) is a transnational region in southern Scandinavia located by the shores of the Oresund strait. The eastern part is constituted by Skåne County in Sweden and the western part is located on the Danish island of Zealand, connected by... Oresund Region, the Denmark (disambiguation). The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest Nordic country and is part of the European Union. It is located in Scandinavia, which is in northern Europe. Denmark borders the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, and consists of a peninsula attached to Northern Germany named Jutland (Jylland... Danish capital of City nickname: none Location in Denmark Area - Total - Water 526 km² xxx km² xx% Population - City ( 2004) - Metropolitan - Density 502,204 1,116,979 954/km² [including water] xxx/km² [land only] Time zone Eastern: UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 55°... Copenhagen with the The Kingdom of Sweden ( Swedish: Konungariket Sverige listen?) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak Strait and the Kattegat Strait on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia on... Swedish city of Malmö ( listen?) is the largest city in the province Scania (Skåne) and southern Sweden. Together with the smaller town of Arlöv in the north and the incorporated town of Limhamn in the south Malmö constitutes a conurbation (Malmö urban area) with a... Malmö.

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The Oresund Bridge and Pepperholm islet, from above

The bridge has one of the longest Sunshine Skyway, Tampa Bay, Florida Millau viaduct in France A cable_stayed bridge is a bridge that consists of one or more pillars, with cables supporting the roadbed. There are two major classes of cable-stayed bridges, differentiated by how the cables are connected to the pillars. In a parallel attachment... cable-stayed main spans in the world at 490 This article is about the unit of length. For other uses of metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation). The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units. It is defined as the length of the path traveled by light in an absolute vacuum during a... metres. The height of the highest pillar is 204 This article is about the unit of length. For other uses of metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation). The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units. It is defined as the length of the path traveled by light in an absolute vacuum during a... metres. The total length of the bridge is 7,845 meters, which is approximately half the distance between the Swedish and Danish landmasses, and its weight is 82 million The international prototype, made of platinum-iridium, which is kept at the BIPM under conditions specified by the 1st CGPM in 1889. The kilogram (symbol: kg) is the SI base unit of mass. A gram is defined as one thousandth of a kilogram. Conversion of units describes equivalent units of... kilograms. The rest of the distance is spanned by the artificial "Pepper" islet (" Peberholm, literally Pepper islet, is an artificial island which was built as part of the Oresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden. The islet was constructed in proximity of the small natural island of Saltholm (Salt islet) and was named to complement it. Peberholm is protected by strong laws and only... Peberholm"/"Pepparholm") (4,055 m), (named as a counterpart to the already existing " Categories: Stub | Islands of Denmark ... Saltholm" islet) followed by a tunnel (3,510 m) on the Danish side. The two rail-tracks are beneath the four road lanes. The bridge has a vertical clearance of 57 metres, although most boat traffic across Oresund still passes over the Drogden strait (where the tunnel lies).

Instead of calling the bridge "Øresundsbroen" in Danish and "Öresundsbron" in Swedish, a compromise was made and the bridge was baptized "Øresundsbron" as the official name, although the Swedish spelling remains common in everyday usage in Sweden, and the Danish in Denmark.

The bridge has not been as well used as was hoped, largely due to the expense of crossing. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) Elections were held in 73 countries during 2004. See a list of elections... As of 2004 a single trip across the bridge costs DKK 230, or SEK 280 (c. 30 Euro (disambiguation). The euro (€; ISO 4217 code EUR) is the currency of twelve of the twenty-five European Union member states. These twelve states, which form the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), are: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. It is... Euro). This has been a slight embarrassment to the governments of both countries. However, the consortium running the bridge maintains that the project is a long term one that will be well worth its cost in the long run.

The designers of the bridge hoped that it would help create a unified "Oresund region" comprising Copenhagen and the Swedish communities on the eastern side of the strait. This greater metropolitan region is one of the largest in northern Europe, and the hope is to create a hub for economic activity.

One deterrent to closer economic integration is the lack of a single currency, as both Sweden and Denmark maintain their own currencies, the The Danish krone is the currency used in Denmark and the Danish dependency of Greenland. While the Faroe Islands is also a dependency of Denmark, it has a seperate currency called the Faroese Króna that is on a one to one parity with the Danish krone. The plural form... Danish krone and This article is about the Swedish unit of currency. See below for a list of similarly named currencies of other countries. Krona is also the name of a DC Comics alien villain. The Krona is the currency used in Sweden. The plural form is kronor and one krona is divided... Swedish krona. Although both are accepted in some areas of the other country, exchange rates are not favourable, and many businesses, especially outside tourist zones, do not accept the other currency.

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