{{Short description|Bridge across the Yangon River in Myanmar}} {{Expand Burmese|ဒလတံတား|date=March 2026}} The '''Dala Bridge''' (Burmese: ဒလတံတား), officially known as the '''Myanmar–Korea Friendship Bridge''' (Burmese: မြန်မာ-ကိုရီးယား ချစ်ကြည်ရေးတံတား), is a bridge spanning across the Yangon River in Myanmar. It connects downtown Yangon with Dala Township.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MoC Union Minister inspects Myanmar-Korea Friendship (Dala) Bridge construction progress {{!}} Ministry Of Information |url=http://www.moi.gov.mm/moi:eng/news/16508 |access-date=2026-02-07 |website=www.moi.gov.mm |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Smooth Transportation : Myanmar-Korea Friendship (Dala) Bridge in Yangon {{!}} Myanmar International TV |url=https://www.myanmaritv.com/news/smooth-transportation-myanmar-korea-friendship-dala-bridge-yangon |access-date=2026-02-07 |website=www.myanmaritv.com}}</ref> It is the country's longest and largest steel cable-stayed bridge.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Myanmar opens Dala Bridge, restricts certain vehicles for safety |url=https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/myanmar-opens-dala-bridge-restricts-certain-vehicles-for-safety |access-date=2026-02-07 |website=Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=မြန်မာ - ကိုရီးယားချစ်ကြည်ရေး(ဒလ)တံတား ဖွင့်ပွဲအခမ်းအနားကျင်းပ ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ယာယီသမ္မတ နိုင်ငံတော်လုံခြုံရေးနှင့် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေး ကော်မရှင်ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး မင်းအောင်လှိုင် တက်ရောက်ချီးမြှင့် |url=http://www.mdn.gov.mm/my/mnmaa-kiuriiyaakhcknnyredlttnttaa-phngpaiakhmanaakngp-pnnytheaangcusmmttmnmaaniungngntteaa |access-date=2026-02-07 |website=MDN - Myanmar DigitalNews |language=my}}</ref>
The project was first proposed in 2012 during a state visit by then President U Thein Sein to South Korea. During the visit, the South Korean government agreed to support the infrastructure project as a gesture of goodwill and to foster bilateral relations with Burma. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was subsequently signed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Connection cemented for Myanmar–Korea Friendship (Dala) Bridge {{!}} National Defence and Security Council Office |url=https://sacoffice.gov.mm/en/connection-cemented-myanmar-korea-friendship-dala-bridge |access-date=2026-02-07 |website=sacoffice.gov.mm}}</ref> thumb|The Dala Bridge construction seen from the Yangon River Construction first began on 24 December 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-12-24 |title=ချစ်ကြည်ရေးတံတား ပန္နက်တင် အခမ်းအနားကို အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ် တက်ရောက်ဖွင့်လှစ် |url=https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/dala-bridge-12242018063938.html |access-date=2026-02-07 |website=မြန်မာဌာန |language=my}}</ref> It was temporarily halted multiple times due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup.<ref>{{Cite news |last=ဧရာဝတီ |date=2022-01-13 |title=ဂျပန်၊ တောင်ကိုရီးယား ချေးငွေဖြင့် ဆောင်ရွက်နေသည့် စီမံကိန်းတချို့ ပြန်လည်ပတ် |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2022/01/13/248912.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240919082251/https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2022/01/13/248912.html |archive-date=2024-09-19 |access-date=2026-02-07 |work=ဧရာဝတီ |language=en-US}}</ref>
The bridge was opened successfully on 6 February 2026.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Myanmar-South Korea 'friendship' bridge opens in Yangon |url=https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/myanmar-crisis/myanmar-south-korea-friendship-bridge-opens-in-yangon |access-date=2026-02-07 |website=Nikkei Asia |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
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Category:Myanmar–South Korea relations Category:Bridges in Myanmar Category:Bridges completed in 2026