Youyi Bridge

34°48′14.4″N 72°56′10.94″E / 34.804000°N 72.9363722°E / 34.804000; 72.9363722The 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.

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]

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[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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