Youyi Bridge
bridge in Pakistan
The Youyi Bridge (Chinese: 友誼橋, meaning Friendship Bridge, Urdu: دوستی کا پل) is a bridge on the Karakoram Highway (KKH) at Thakot in Battagram District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The inauguration ceremony for the bridge was held on August 17, 2004.
The bridge spans the Indus River and carries the KKH, next to a bridge built between 1966 and 1978. The bridge was given its Chinese name in 2004 to honour the Chinese and Pakistani workers killed in the construction of the Karakoram Highway.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Youyi Bridge” is bridge in Pakistan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Youyi, Bridge and bridge, not as a finished interpretation.
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The phrase “bridge in Pakistan” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2198588. Authority coordinates are 34.804, 72.936. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 1966 and 1978.
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This entry incorporates text from “Youyi 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.