List of longest buildings
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This is a list of the longestScript error: No such module "Unsubst". multiple-segment buildings and walls (excluding those not intended for human occupancy) in the world.
World
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates | Notes | |
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| m | ft | ||||||||
| 1. | Great Wall of China | Fortification | From Spring and Autumn period to Ming dynasty | Script error: No such module "convert". | — | China | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 2. | Walls of Benin | Fortification | 1450–1500 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Benin City | Nigeria | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 3. | Great Wall of Gorgan | Fortification | 224 to 651 AD | Script error: No such module "convert". | — | Iran | [1] | ||
| 4. | Kumbhalgarh | Fortification | 15th century | Script error: No such module "convert". | — | India | [2] | ||
| 5. | Ranikot Fort | Fortification | 17th century | Script error: No such module "convert". | — | Pakistan | [3] | ||
| 6. | Diyarbakır Wall | Fortification | 337 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Diyarbakır | Turkey | |||
| 7. | Walls of Ston | Fortification | 1461 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Ston | Croatia | |||
| 8. | Prora | Hotel | 1936–1939 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Binz | Germany | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Three buildings, not connected; the longest is 750m | |
| 9. | LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) | Research Facility | 1994–1999 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Livingston, Louisiana Hanford, Washington | United States | Length of each arm.[4] | ||
| 10. | Sighnagi wall | Fortress | 18th century | Script error: No such module "convert". | Sighnagi | Georgia | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | The 4-kilometer-long wall integrated 28 towers, each named according to the village with which they connected the city. [5] | |
| 10. | Government Complex, Sejong | Government building | 2008–2014 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Sejong City | South Korea | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Six buildings interrupted by roads; none longer than 300m [6] | |
| 11. | Klystron gallery above the Stanford Linear Accelerator | Research facility | 1962–1966 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Menlo Park, California | United States | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | [7] | |
| 12. | Fenestrelle Fort | Fortification | 1728–1850 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Fenestrelle | Italy | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 13. | Three Gorges Dam | Dam | 1994–2008 | Script error: No such module "convert". | China | [8] | |||
| 14. | Modlin Fortress | Barracks | 1832–1862 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Poland | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Two buildings, the longest 1330m | ||
| 15. | Moscow Kremlin Wall | Fortification | 1485–1495 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Moscow | Russia | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 16. | Dubai International Airport Cargo Gateway | Airport terminal | 2008 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | [9] | |
| 17. | Apartment house on Sobornosti av. and Molodi st. | Apartment house | 1970-s | Script error: No such module "convert". | Lutsk | Ukraine | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | A single, connected building 1750m long | |
| 18. | Kansai International Airport | Airport terminal | 1991–1994 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Osaka | Japan | |||
| 19. | Red Dog Mine Conveyor Enclosure | Zinc mine conveyor enclosure | 1991 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Alaska | United States | [10] | ||
| 20. | McNamara Terminal Concourse A at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport |
Airport terminal | 2002 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Detroit, Michigan | United States | |||
Africa
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m | ft | |||||||
| 1. | Walls of Benin | Fortification | 1450–1500 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Benin City | Nigeria | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |
Asia
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| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | Country | Coordinates | City | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m | ft | |||||||
| 1. | Great Wall of China | Fortification | From Spring and Autumn period to Ming dynasty | Script error: No such module "convert". | China | — | ||
| 2. | Kumbhalgarh | Fortification | 15th century | Script error: No such module "convert". | India | — | ||
| 3. | Ranikot Fort | Fortification | 17th century | Script error: No such module "convert". | Pakistan | |||
| 4. | Diyarbakır Wall | Fortification | 337 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Turkey | Diyarbakır | ||
| 5. | Kansai International Airport | Airport terminal | 1991–1994 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Japan | Osaka | ||
Europe
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m | ft | ||||||||
| 1. | Walls of Ston | Fortification | 1461 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Ston | Croatia | |||
| 2. | Prora | Hotel | 1936–1939 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Binz | Germany | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Three buildings, not connected; the longest is 750m | |
| 3. | Venetian Walls of Candia | Fortification | 1462–1560 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Heraklion | Greece | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 4. | Fenestrelle Fort | Fortification | 1728–1850 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Fenestrelle | Italy | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 5. | Modlin Fortress | Barracks | 1832–1862 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki | Poland | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Two buildings, the longest 1330m | |
| 6. | Moscow Kremlin Wall | Fortification | 1485–1495 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Moscow | Russia | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 7. | Apartment house on Sobornosti av. and Molodi st. | Apartment house | 1970-s | Script error: No such module "convert". | Lutsk | Ukraine | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | A single, connected building 1750m long | |
| 8. | St. Kevin's Hospital | Lunatic asylum | 1852 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Cork | Ireland | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 9. | Apartment house on Kolsky av. and Beringa st. | Apartment house | 1970-s | Script error: No such module "convert". | Murmansk | Russia | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 10. | Bymuren 1-175 | Residential building | 1972–1974 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Hvidovre | Denmark | |||
| 11. | Apartment house on Akademika Zabolotnogo st. | Apartment house | 1969–1980 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Kyiv | Ukraine | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 12. | Terminal 4 at the Madrid-Barajas Airport |
Airport terminal | 2006 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Madrid | Spain | |||
| 13. | Karl Marx-Hof | Residential building | 1927–1930 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Vienna | Austria | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 14. | "Le Lignon" | Residential building | 1963–1971 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Geneva | Switzerland | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 15. | "Lange Jammer" Longest skyscraper in the world 60 m high and 1,000 m long |
1968–2010 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Märkisches Viertel | Germany | ||||
| 16. | "Corviale" is the longest with a unique body, and parallelepiped building shape | Residential building | 1972–1982 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Rome | Italy | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 17. | Potroom of the Rio Tinto Alcan Aluminium Factory |
Potroom | Script error: No such module "convert". | Straumsvík | Iceland | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |||
| 18. | Blok 21 apartment complex – (official name B-7) | Apartment house | Script error: No such module "convert". | Belgrade | Serbia | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |||
| 19. | Turbine hall of the Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant |
Turbine hall | Script error: No such module "convert". | Lubmin | Germany | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |||
| 20. | Falowiec | Residential building | 1970–1973 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Gdańsk | Poland | (satellite photo) | ||
| 21. | "Chinese wall" (Great Wall of China) Script error: No such module "Unsubst". |
Residential building | 1971–1974 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Dnipro | Ukraine | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 22. | "Kilometergebäude" at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base |
Script error: No such module "convert". | Fürstenfeldbruck | Germany | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||||
| 23. | Turbine hall of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant |
Turbine hall | Script error: No such module "convert". | Chernobyl | Ukraine | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | |||
| 24. | Serpentin (longest of buildings forming the) at Les Courtillières. Whole structure is over Script error: No such module "convert". long in 3 buildings. Architect: Émile Aillaud. | Residential building | 1955–1956 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Pantin | France | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 25. | Karlsborg Fortress | Fortification | 1819–1870 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Sweden | ||||
Thermal power stations in the former Soviet Union often also have long buildings. According to Wikimapia the building of Ekibastuz GRES-1 in Kazakhstan is Script error: No such module "convert". long, and that of the Luhansk power station north of Shchastia, Ukraine, is Script error: No such module "convert". long.
North America
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m | ft | ||||||||
| 1. | LIGO-Livingston | Observatory | 1994–1999 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Louisiana | United States | length relates to each arm[4] | ||
| 2. | Klystron gallery above the Stanford Linear Accelerator |
Research facility | 1962–1966 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Menlo Park, California | United States | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | [11] | |
| 3. | McNamara Terminal Concourse A at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport |
Airport terminal | 2002 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Detroit, Michigan | United States | |||
| 4. | Gurnee Mills | Shopping mall | 1991 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Gurnee, Illinois | United States | Z-shaped building measured along its winding central corridor | ||
| 5. | Boeing Everett Factory | Airplane factory | 1967 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Everett, Washington | United States | |||
| 6. | Ronald Reagan Nat'l Airport Main Terminal | Airport building | 1941 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Arlington, Virginia | United States | |||
| 7. | Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Hospital Building 1 | Medical building | 1921 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Hines, Illinois | United States | |||
| 8. | US Coast Guard Air Station, Washington | Military building | 1952 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Arlington, Virginia | United States | |||
Oceania
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m | ft | ||||||||
| 1. | Willsmere – Kew Asylum | Residential | 1871 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Kew, Victoria | Australia | |||
| 2. | Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre | Exhibition centre | 1996 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Melbourne, Victoria | Australia | |||
| 3. | The Great Southern Stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground |
Stadium | 1996 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Melbourne, Victoria | Australia | |||
| 4. | Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre | Exhibition centre | 1988 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Sydney, New South Wales | Australia | |||
| 5. | Flinders Street station | Railway station | 1910 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Melbourne, Victoria | Australia | |||
South America
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m | ft | ||||||||
| 1. | Central Institute of Sciences (ICC) of the University of Brasília | University | 1961 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Brasília, Federal District (Brazil) | Brazil |
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 2. | Edificio Caliche, Conjunto Habitacional Gran Vía – Caliche Building, Gran Vía housing complex | Residential | 1970–1974 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Antofagasta | Chile | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | [12] | |
| 3. | Edificio Huanchaca (Curvo), Conjunto Habitacional Gran Vía – Huanchaca Building, Gran Vía housing complex | Residential | 1967–1969 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Antofagasta | Chile | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | [12] | |
| 4. | Minhocão de Guadalupe – Guadalupe's Big Earthworm | Residential | 1950 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Guadalupe, Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | ||
| 5. | Plataforma Gubernamental de Gestión Financiera | Public service | 2017 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Quito, Metropolitan District of Quito | Ecuador | |||
| 6. | Conjunto Residencial Alcalde Mendes de Moraes (Pedregulho) | Residential | 1947 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Rio de Janeiro, São Cristóvão Neighborhood | Brazil | |||
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Middle East
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m | ft | ||||||||
| 1. | Great Wall of Gorgan | Fortification | 224-651 AD | Script error: No such module "convert". | – | Iran | |||
| 2. | Terminal 3, Concourse B at the Dubai International Airport | Airport terminal | 2008 | Script error: No such module "convert". | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | |||
See also
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References
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