The proposed 40km Qatar-Bahrain Friendship Causeway, described as the world’s longest spanning a mass of water, would take just 40 minutes to cross in a vehicle doing 60kmh.
However, if one was to go on a walk through the bridge, it could take nine hours, MENA Infrastructure has reported.
The project, work on which is scheduled to commence at the start of next year, is expected to cost about $3bn and take five yeas for completion.
The causeway is the length of 1,215 blue whales, 536 Boeing 747s, 49 Burj Dubais or 4.5 Mount Everests. The top 10 longest bridges in the world, with the Qatar-Bahrain causeway as number one, have also been listed by MENA Infrastructure.
The other nine are: San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, US (11.3km); Confederation Bridge, Canada, and Jubilee Parkway, US (12.9km each); Rio-Niteroi Bridge, Brazil (13km); Vasco da Gama Bridge, Portugal (17km); Chesapeake Bay Bridge, US (24km); King Fahd Causeway, Saudi Arabia (27km); Donghai Bridge, China (32km); and Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, US (38km).