 Much longer anchorage-to-anchorage spans have been built in the Eastern Hemisphere, including the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge in Japan ().But the long leadups to the anchorages on the Mackinac make its total shoreline-to-shoreline length of , longer than the Akashi-Kaikyo ().The length of the bridge's main span is , which makes it the third-longest suspension span in the United States and 20th longest suspension span worldwide.