Kizuna Bridge
bridge in Cambodia
The Kizuna Bridge is a bridge on the Mekong River in the city of Kampong Cham, Kampong Cham Province.
It was opened in 2001 and was the first bridge to be built over the Mekong River in Cambodia.
Construction
Construction of the bridge was funded by a $56-million grant from the Japanese government. At 1500 metres it was the longest bridge in Cambodia until the 2002 construction of the Koh Kong Bridge, a 1900-metre Thai-Cambodian bridge in Koh Kong. The Kizuna bridge links eastern and western Cambodia by road for the first time. Construction of the bridge began in 1999, and took three years to complete. An estimated 10,000 people crowded the bridge for the opening ceremony.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kizuna Bridge” as bridge in Cambodia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as bridge in Cambodia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3396600. Authority coordinates are 11.985, 105.470. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001, 1500, 2002 and 1900.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kizuna Bridge” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.