The Oresund Bridge connects Copenhagen in Denmark with Malmo in Sweden, carrying both a motorway and a railway across the Oresund strait. It is part of a fixed link that combines a cable-stayed bridge on the Swedish side with an artificial island, Peberholm, and an undersea tunnel on the Danish side, since a bridge there would have interfered with aircraft approaching Copenhagen airport. Queen Margrethe II and King Carl XVI Gustaf took part in the opening. The link has made commuting between the two countries common and has helped to integrate the region around the two cities, and it inspired the Scandinavian television series The Bridge.
Before and after
- 19 April 2000Creation of Windows Mobile
- 11 May 2000Construction of Tate Modern
- 26 June 2000The first draft of the human genome is announced
- July 2000Discovery of livermorium
- 1 July 2000Construction of Øresund Bridge
- 7 July 2000Founding of East African Community
- 8 July 2000Publication of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- 17 July 2000Launch of MusicBrainz
- 21 July 2000Birth of Erling Haaland
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