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WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – The Ryfylke Tunnel: World’s longest and deepest subsea road tunnel

(Worldkings.org) The tunnel is designed for 10,000 vehicles per day and is built with one tube for each traffic-direction, and two vehicular lanes in each tube.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Southend Pier: World’s longest pleasure pier

(Worldkings.org) The pier has experienced several fires, notably in 1959, 1976, 1995 and 2005, with the latter causing significant damage to the old pier head and surrounding structures.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Gulf of Ob: World’s longest estuary

(Worldkings.org) The gulf is relatively shallow, with an average depth from 10 to 12 metres (33 to 39 ft), which restricts heavy sea transport. The Taz Estuary is an eastern side-branch formed by the Taz River.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Bianchi: World’s oldest bicycle manufacturing company in existence

(Worldkings.org) Since May 1997, the company has been part of Cycleurope Group, which is owned by the Swedish company of Grimaldi Industri AB.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Sveriges riksbank: World’s oldest central bank

(Worldkings.org) During the 19th century, the Riksbank maintained a dominant position as a credit institution and issuer of bank-notes. The bank also managed national trade transactions as well as continuing to provide credit to the general public.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Aurubis: World’s largest copper recycler

(Worldkings.org) The core business is the production of copper cathodes from copper concentrates, scrap and recycling materials (copper refining). These are processed within the Group into continuous cast wire rod, shapes, rolled products and strips as well as special wire made of copper and copper alloys.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Novosibirsk Metro Bridge: World’s longest covered metro bridge

(Worldkings.org) The total length of the structure is 2,145 meters. The length of the span is 896 meters. It is a continuous steel beam on reinforced concrete bridge pillars.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Norway Cup: World’s largest youth football tournament

(Worldkings.org) The tournament is organized by Bækkelagets Sportsklub with Tony Isaksen as its general secretary. Amazon Grimstad won the first Norway Cup tournament for women, winning 2–1 over Vestar, after a penalty shoot-out.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Port of Vigo: World’s biggest fishing port

(Worldkings.org) In Vigo, important international trade fairs are held, like Conxemar, an annual event dedicated to frozen fish products.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Flevopolder: World’s largest artificial island

(Worldkings.org) The Flevopolder together with the Noordoostpolder forms the province of Flevoland, the most recent province to be added to the Netherlands.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Kopenhagen Fur: World’s largest fur skin auction company

(Worldkings.org) As of 2020, Kopenhagen Fur was reported to be responsible for 40% of global mink fur production.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Coats Group plc: World’s largest manufacturer and distributor of sewing thread and supplies

(Worldkings.org) Headquartered in the UK, it has a workforce of 17,000 in some 50 countries, across six continents around the world.

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