Where is the highest building of world is constructed ? How long is it ?
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Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan at 508 Meters.\nhttp://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?1241105\n\n[modified below for more sources and some details on how there are different categories for 'tallest building']\nThe Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)  defined four categories in which the "world's tallest building" can be measured:\n\n1) Height to the structural or architectural top, Taipei 101\n2) Height to the highest occupied floor, Taipei 101\n3) Height to the top of the roof, Taipei 101\n4) Height to the top of antenna, Sears Tower\n\nToday, the Taipei 101 leads in the first category with 508 m (1,667 ft); in the second category with an occupied floor at 438 m (1,437 ft); and in the third category with 448 m (1,470 ft). The first category was formerly held by the Petronas Twin Towers with 452 m (1,483 ft), and before that by Sears Tower with 443 m (1,448 ft). The second category was held by the Sears Tower, with 435 m (1,431 ft). The third category was formerly held by the Sears Tower with 442 m (1,445 ft).\n\nThe Sears Tower still leads in the fourth category with 527 m (1,730 ft), previously held by the World Trade Center until the extension of the Chicago tower's western broadcast antenna in 2000, over a year prior to the Trade Center's destruction in 2001.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_tallest_structures\n\nThe CN tower in Canada is 'officially' considered the "tallest Freestanding structure on land" .. not the "tallest building (fully habitable)", although some sites will give it this designation in some limited categories.\n\nThe second body that ranks tall structures is "All About Skyscrapers" which divided the comparison of structures into the following categories.\n\nFully habitable-Spire, Taipei 101 Taipei (509m) \nFully habitable-Antenna, Sears Tower Chicago (529m) \nFully habitable-Highest Floor, Taipei 101 Taipei (438m) \n\nPartially habitable-Spire, CN Tower Toronto (452m) \nPartially habitable-Antenna, CN Tower Toronto (554m) \nPartially habitable-Highest Floor, CN Tower Toronto (452m)
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The Sears Tower, completed May 3, 1973, rises to a height of 1,450 feet and is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the Chicago skyline and in the world. The Sears tower held the record for the world’s tallest building for 25 years until the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia were built in 1998. Then in the Fall of 2004 Taipei 101 took all but one title -- tallest to the tips of the antennas, which the Sears Tower still owns. Including the Sears Tower antennas, the total height of the Sears Tower increases to 1,725 feet. Designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for Sears, Roebuck & Company, the world’s largest retailer at the time, the 3.8 million RSF building is the preeminent office address in Chicago and one of the premier properties in the world. The property provides an irreplaceable West Loop location, unparalleled views from all of the property’s highly efficient floors and an unmatched prestige.
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More in-depth:\n\n1) Great Pyramid of Khufu (Egypt) \nthe largest of the three at 450 feet high (originally 482 when built); contains 2.3 million blocks each weighing 2.5 tons; completed 2680BC; was the highest building in the world until the 19th century; \n\n2) Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Iraq) \nbuilt around 600BC by Nebuchadnezzar to appease Queen Amuhia; Amuhia was married to Neb to form an alliance between the Babylonians and the Medians; she was homesick because Babylon was flat and dry and she was from a green mountainous region, had dimensions of 100 by 150 feet and were terraces that rose from 75 to 300 feet; had a mechanism to raise water to each of the terraces \n\n3) Statue of Zeus (Jupiter) at Olympia (Greece) \nbuilt by Phidias in 5th century BC; was placed in a temple built to honor Zeus who was the reason for the ancient olympic games (Zeus was the king of the Gods); statue was 22-feet wide and 40-feet high statue and made of ivory and gold; moved to Olympia until the olympic games were abolished by Emperor Theodosius I of Rome since he was Christian and did not believe in pagan games (since the olympics honored Zeus, a pagan God); moved to Constantinople (Turkey) after 255AD and was destroyed by fire in 462AD \n\n4) Temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus (Turkey) \nbegun in 350BC and took about 60 to 120 years to complete; the temple had 36 60-foot high Ionic columns and was completely made of marble; destroyed during a raid by the Goths in 262 A.D; was not rebuilt afterwards since Christianity took hold and pagan temples were not in favor \n\n5) Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Turkey) \nbegun in 353BC; built by Queen Artemisia over grief of the death of her husband who was also her brother (common practice for royalty to wed within the family at the time)Mausolus; his name led to modern day term mausoleum for all stately tombs throughout the world; destroyed by series of earthquakes and only the foundation was left by 1404AD \n\n6) Colossus at Rhodes (Greece) \nbegun in 304BC and took 12 years to complete; bronze statue of the God Helios, who was patron God of Rhodes; built to celebrate their victory and freedom against an invasion force larger than the population of Rhodes itself; was 110 feet tall (as tall as the Statue of Liberty without the pedestal) on a 50 foot pedestal; destroyed by earthquake just 57 years after completion; peices of fallen statue laid there until 7th century AD when Arab conquerers took it apart for scrap metal; it is said it took 900 camels to take away the statue \n\n7) Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria (Egypt) \nbuilt in 290BC since the city needed a signal for its busy port; completed 20 years later; 2nd tallest building in the world at 450 feet (see wonder 1); was built on the island of Pharos; Pharos is the root word for "lighthouse" in Spanish, French, Italian, and Romanian; it was three stages with the first stage being 200 feet high, and it was possibly a tourist destination since it was one of the highest views possible on a man-made building in the ancient world and food was served at this observation level, possibly for tourists; stood for over 1,500 years, but was damaged by earthquakes in 365 and 1303AD and finally fell in 1326AD \n\nAll of these were built by 270BC and where in the Mediterranean Sea... The reason was that this list was compiled by ancient Greek historians so they all included objects/structures around the Mediterrean Sea since that was the "known" world at the time... That is why Stonehenge, Great Wall of China, and other ancient objects/structures were left off the list...
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The Seven Wonders of the World \n\nThe Pyramids of Egypt are three pyramids at Giza, outside modern Cairo. The largest pyramid, built by Khufu (Cheops), a king of the fourth dynasty, had an original estimated height of 482 ft (now approximately 450 ft). The base has sides 755 ft long. It contains 2,300,000 blocks; the average weight of each is 2.5 tons. Estimated date of completion is 2680 B.C. Of all the Ancient Wonders, the pyramids alone survive.\n\nThe Hanging Gardens of Babylon were supposedly built by Nebuchadnezzar around 600 B.C. to please his queen, Amuhia. They are also associated with the mythical Assyrian queen, Semiramis. Archeologists surmise that the gardens were laid out atop a vaulted building, with provisions for raising water. The terraces were said to rise from 75 to 300 ft.\n\nThe Statue of Zeus (Jupiter) at Olympia was made of gold and ivory by the Greek sculptor Phidias (5th century B.C.). Reputed to be 40 ft high, the statue has been lost without a trace, except for reproductions on coins.\n\nThe Temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus was begun about 350 B.C., in honor of a non-Hellenic goddess who later became identified with the Greek goddess of the same name. The temple, with Ionic columns 60 ft high, was destroyed by invading Goths in A.D. 262.\n\nThe Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was erected by Queen Artemisia in memory of her husband, King Mausolus of Caria in Asia Minor, who died in 353 B.C. Some remains of the structure are in the British Museum. This shrine is the source of the modern word mausoleum.\n\nThe Colossus at Rhodes was a bronze statue of Helios (Apollo), about 105 ft high. The work of the sculptor Chares, who reputedly labored for 12 years before completing it in 280 B.C., it was destroyed during an earthquake in 224 B.C.\n\nThe Pharos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria was built by Sostratus of Cnidus during the 3rd century B.C. on the island of Pharos off the coast of Egypt. It was destroyed by an earthquake in the 13th century.\n\n(Some lists include the Walls of Babylon in place of the second or seventh wonder.)\n----------------------------------------------\nThe Seven Wonders of the Modern World\n\nPeople have put together many lists of the seven ancient wonders of the world. But this "seven wonders" list celebrates monumental engineering and construction feats of the 20th century. It was chosen by the American Society of Civil Engineers.\n\n    *1. Empire State Building—Finished in 1931, it towers 1,250 feet over New York City. Until the first tower of the World Trade Center was finished in 1972, it was the world's tallest building.\n    * 2. Itaipu Dam—Built by Brazil and Paraguay on the Parana River, it is the world's largest hydroelectric power plant. Completed in 1991, it took 16 years to build this series of dams whose length totals 7,744 meters. It used 15 times more concrete than the Channel Tunnel.\n    * 3. CN Tower—In 1976, it became the world's tallest freestanding structure. It looms about one-third of a mile high (1,815 feet) above Toronto, Canada. A glass floor on the observation deck lets you look 342m down to the ground. Don't worry: the glass is strong enough to hold 14 hippos!\n    * 4. Panama Canal—It took 34 years to create this 50-mile-long canal across the Isthmus of Panama. The amount of digging required and the size of its locks helped make it the most expensive project in American history at that time-and the most deadly: About 80,000 people died during construction (most from disease).\n    * 5. Channel Tunnel—Known as the Chunnel, it links France and England. It is 31 miles long, and 23 of those miles are 150 feet beneath the seabed of the English Channel. High-speed trains whiz through its side-by-side tubes.\n    * 6. North Sea Protection Works—Because the Netherlands is below sea level, a series of dams, floodgates and surge barriers have been built to keep the sea from flooding the country during storms. The biggest part
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Up until 1998 the tallest building status was essentially uncontested. Counting buildings as structures with floors throughout, New York City's World Trade Center was the tallest including the antennas, Sears Tower in Chicago excluding the antennas. As antennas were usually excluded, Sears Tower was counted as the tallest. When Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was built, some felt that the "spire" extending to 9 meters higher than the roof of the Sears Tower was just added to "cheat" its way into the spot as tallest building. Excluding the spire, the Petronas Towers were not taller than the Sears Tower.
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The Mt.Everest is the highest....\nMount Everest 8850m (29035 ft) Asia \n\nMount Kilimanjaro 5963m (19563 ft) Africa \n\nThe Matterhorn (Switzerland) 4470m (14654 ft)
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There is an ongoing debate regarding criteria to measure the tallest building in the world so according to the measurements used today I have listed them. Taipei 101 takes the honors except when measuring to the top of the antenna atop the building then the Sears Tower is tallest.\n\n\n Height to the architectural top -Taipei 101\n Height to the highest occupied floor-Taipei 101\n Height to the top of the roof-Taipei 101\n Height to the top of antenna-Sears Tower
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The largest building in North America is also the largest building in the world.  It's owned by Boeing aircraft, and is located in Everett, Washington.  It encloses 472 million cubic feet (13.3 million cubic meters) of space.
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Pentagon in USA is presently the highest building.Before the attack in USA World Trade Center(also known as Twin Tower)was the highest building.It is presently destroyed by Osama Bin Laden.
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It`s in hawaii (No cheat) but i don`t know exactly the name but the most important thing is that it`s height from free seas level is only 2000-3000 m but from the base in deep pasific it`s height is about 10000-12000 m ! \nHigher that everest !\nDon`t forget an alone mountain on mars with 20000 m in height ! (I don`t know the name again)\nHighest mountain around the solar system and till know all around the univers !
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The world's longest escalator ride can be had on the four-section outdoor escalator at Ocean Park, Hong Kong, China. The escalator has an overall length of 745 ft. and it boasts a total vertical rise of 377 ft.
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It's La Paz, Boliva (11,811 ft. elev.); also the highest capital city in the world.
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It is said that the people who tried to build it wanted it to be as high as the sky is so that they could reach god.\nBut god punished them before they finished it. We don't know how tall it was because we don't know where it is and we don't know if that story is true at all.
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Shreepati Arcade \n\nAND\n\nIt is the six highest residential scrapers in the world \n\n• Sears Tower, Chicago: 110 storey \n• Empire State building, New York: 102 storey\n• Baiyoke Towers, Thailand: 90 storey\n• Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur: 88 storey\n• Tentex Building, Taiwan: 85 storey\n• Shreepati Arcade, Mumbai: 45 storey\n\n\nBUT\n\nThey are planning to have the tallest in the world soon ( That is if they beat the United Arab Emirates first) - follow link
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For all the rest of you folks: Mt. Everest is the highest mountain in the world.  The tallest, from base to summit happens to be Mauna Kea, the highest point in Hawaii, measured from the ocean floor.. It measures 13,796 ft above sea level plus another 16,000 ft below sea level.  That makes it: 29,796 ft total. Remember, the mountain is mostly submerged under the ocean.  Mt. Everest is only measured from sea level at 29.028 ft.
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3 answers in one :-\nAccording to The Guinness Book of World Records, the highest town in the world is Wenzhuan, which was founded in 1955 on the Qinghai-Tibet road north of the Tangla mountain range. It is 16,730 feet above sea level.\n\nThe highest capital in the world, before the domination of Tibet by China, was Lhasa, with an elevation of 12,087 feet above sea level. La Paz, the administrative and de facto capital of Bolivia, stands at an altitude of 11,913 feet above sea level.\n\nAnd finally, the highest city in the United States is Leadville, Colo. with an elevation of 10,152 feet.
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3,212 ft (979 m) high