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Lærdal Tunnel

The 28th longest tunnel in the world

24.51 km · Length

The Lærdal Tunnel (Lærdalstunnelen) is a 24.51-kilometre-long (15.23 mi) road tunnel connecting Lærdal Municipality and Aurland Municipality in Vestland county, Norway; the southwest end of the tunnel is approximately 117 kilometres (73 mi) northeast of Bergen. It carries two lanes of the European Route E16 highway, and was the final link completing the main highway that now enables car travel between Oslo and Bergen with no ferry connections and no difficult mountain crossings during winter. It is the longest road tunnel in the world, followed by WestConnex in Sydney, Australia and Tianshan Shengli Tunnel in Xinjiang, China.

Tunnel data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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