List of longest buildings in the world

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This is a list of the longest[clarification needed] single-segment buildings (excluding those not intended for human occupancy) in the world, and broken down by continent (which are not included in the world section).

World

No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country Coordinates
1 Great Wall of China fortification 200BC–17th century 8,851,800 m — China Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
2 Kumbhalgarh fortification 15th century 36,000 m[1] — India
3 Ranikot Fort fortification 17th century 26,000 m[2] — Pakistan
4 Walls of Ston fortification 1461 5500 m Ston Croatia
5 Klystron gallery above the Stanford Linear Accelerator research facility 1962–1966 3073.72 m[3] Menlo Park, California United States Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
6 Three Gorges Dam dam 1994-2008 2,335 m[4] China
7 Modlin Fortress barracks 1832–1862 2250 m Poland
8 Moscow Kremlin Wall fortification 1485–1495 2235 m Moscow Russia Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
9 Dubai International Airport Cargo Gateway airport terminal 2008 1774 m[5] Dubai United Arab Emirates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
10 Apartment house on Sobornosti av. and Molodyozhi st. apartment house 1750 m Lutsk Ukraine Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
11 Kansai International Airport airport terminal 1991–1994 1700 m Osaka Japan
12 Red Dog Mine Conveyer Enclosure.[6] zinc mine conveyer enclosure 1991 1700 m Alaska United States
13 McNamara Terminal Concourse A
at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport		 airport terminal 2002 1600 m Detroit, Michigan United States
14 Apartment house on Kolsky av. and Beringa st. apartment house 1970-s 1488 m[7] Murmansk Russia Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Africa

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Asia

No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country Coordinates
1. Great Wall of China fortification 200BC–17th century 8,851.8 km — China
2. Ranikot Fort fortification 17th century 8.6 km Pakistan
3. Kansai International Airport airport terminal 1991–1994 1700 m Osaka Japan
4. Jongmyo 1394 ~150 m South Korea

Europe

No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country Coordinates
1. Walls of Ston fortification 1461 5500 m Ston Croatia
2. Venetian Walls of Candia fortification 1462–1560 4300 m Heraklion Greece Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
3. Modlin Fortress barracks 1832–1862 2250 m Poland
4. Moscow Kremlin Wall fortification 1485–1495 2235 m Moscow Russia Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
5. Apartment house on Sobornosti av. and Molodyozhi st. apartment house 3265  m Lutsk Ukraine Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
6. Apartment house on Kolsky av. and Beringa st. apartment house 1970-s 1488 m[7] Murmansk Russia Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
7. Bymuren 1-175 residential building 1972–1974 1475 m Denmark
8. Terminal 4
at the Madrid-Barajas Airport		 airport terminal 2006 1175 m Madrid Spain
9. Karl Marx-Hof residential building 1927–1930 1100 m Vienna Austria
10. "Le Lignon" residential building 1963–1971 1060 m Geneva Switzerland
11. "Lange Jammer"
Längstes Hochhaus der Welt
mit 60 Meter Höhe und 1000 Meter Länge		 1968–2010 1000 m Märkisches Viertel Germany
11. "Corviale" is the longest with a unique body, and parallelepiped building shape residential building 1972–1982 1000 m Rome Italy Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
12. Turbine hall
of the Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant		 turbine hall 955 m Lubmin Germany Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
13. Falowiec residential building 1970–1973 860 m Gdańsk Poland (satellite photo)
14. "Chinese wall" (Great Wall of China)
[clarification needed]		 residential building 1971–1974 ~830 m Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
15. "Kilometergebäude"
at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base		 820 m Fürstenfeldbruck Germany Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
16. Turbine hall
of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant		 turbine hall 803 m Chernobyl Ukraine Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
17. Serpentin (longest of buildings forming the) at Les Courtillières. Whole structure is over 1.1 km long in 3 buildings. Architect: Émile Aillaud. residential building 1955–1956 ~700 m Pantin France Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
18. Karlsborg Fortress fortification 1819–1870 678 m Sweden

Note. The Kraft durch Freude seaside resort Prora consists of eight separate buildings, each measuring ~486 m [1].

Thermal power stations in Russia and other parts of former Soviet Union often have also long buildings. According Wikimapia the building of Ekibastus GRES-1 is 537 metres that of Luganskaya GRES north of Schastia, Ukraine 672 metres long.

North America

No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country Coordinates
1. Klystron gallery
above the Stanford Linear Accelerator		 1962–1966 3073.72 m[3] Menlo Park, California United States

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2. McNamara Terminal Concourse A
at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport		 airport terminal 2002 1600 m Detroit, Michigan United States

Oceania

No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country Coordinates
1. Willsmere - Kew Asylum residential 1871 950 m Kew, Victoria Australia
2. Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre exhibition centre 1996 450 m Melbourne, Victoria Australia
3. The Great Southern Stand
at the Melbourne Cricket Ground		 stadium 1996 400 m Melbourne, Victoria Australia
4. Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre exhibition centre 1988 310 m Sydney, New South Wales Australia
5. Flinders Street Station railway station 1910 280 m Melbourne, Victoria Australia

South America

No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country Coordinates
1. Central Institute of Sciences (ICC) of the University of Brasília university 1961 700 m Brasília, Federal District (Brazil) Brazil

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2. Edificio Caliche, Conjunto Habitacional Gran Vía - Caliche Building, Gran Vía housing complex [8] residential 1970-1974 680 m Antofagasta Chile

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3. Minhocão de Guadalupe - Guadalupe's Big Earthworm residential 1950 460 m Guadalupe, Rio de Janeiro Brazil

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4. Edificio Huanchaca (Curvo), Conjunto Habitacional Gran Vía - Huanchaca Building, Gran Vía housing complex[9] residential 1967-1969 380 m Antofagasta Chile

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Middle East

No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country Coordinates
1. Terminal 3, Concourse 2 at the Dubai International Airport Airport terminal 2008 924m Dubai United Arab Emirates

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.rajasthaninfo.org/kumbhalgarh.htm
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ https://earth.esa.int/web/earth-watching/image-of-the-week/content/-/article/three-gorges-dam-china-landsat
  5. ↑ Cargo Mega Terminal at Dubai Airports
  6. ↑ Alaska Structures. "Conveyer Pipeline Enclosures." Alaska Structures. Retrieved 21 August 2014
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Яндекс.Карты
  8. ↑ Galeno, Claudio. "Ricardo Pulgar San Martín, el conjunto habitacional Gran Vía y el edificio Huanchaca". In: Muñoz, María Dolores (ed.), et al. Docomomo Chile: Trayectorias de la ciudad moderna. Concepción: Universidad de Concepción, 2012, p.145-149.
  9. ↑ Galeno, Claudio. "Ricardo Pulgar San Martín, el conjunto habitacional Gran Vía y el edificio Huanchaca". In: Muñoz, María Dolores (ed.), et al. Docomomo Chile: Trayectorias de la ciudad moderna. Concepción: Universidad de Concepción, 2012, p.145-149.
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