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).

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[edit] World

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 8600 m Pakistan
3. Klystron gallery
above the Stanford Linear Accelerator
1962–1966 3073.72 m[1] Menlo Park, California United States
4. Modlin Fortress barracks 1832–1862 2250 m Poland
5. Kansai International Airport airport terminal 1991–1994 1700 m Osaka Japan
6. McNamara Terminal Concourse A
at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
airport terminal 2002 1600 m Detroit, Michigan United States
7. Bymuren 1-175 residential building 1972–1974 1475 m Denmark

[edit] Africa

[edit] 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

[edit] Europe

No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country Coordinates
1. Modlin Fortress barracks 1832–1862 2250 m Poland
2. Bymuren 1-175 residential building 1972–1974 1475 m Denmark
3. Terminal 4
at the Madrid-Barajas Airport
airport terminal 2006 1175 m Madrid Spain
4. "Karl-Marx-Hof" residential building 1927–1930 1100 m Vienna Austria
5. "Le Lignon" residential building 1963–1971 1060 m Geneva Switzerland
6. "Lange Jammer"
Längstes Hochhaus der Welt
mit 60 Meter Höhe und 1000 Meter Länge
1968–2010 1000 m Berlin Märkisches Viertel Germany
7. "Corviale" residential building 1972–1982 1000 m Rome Italy
8. Turbine hall
of the Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant
turbine hall 955 m Lubmin Germany 54°08′33″N 13°39′36″E / 54.1423908°N 13.6600345°E / 54.1423908; 13.6600345
9. Falowiec residential building 1970–1973 860 m Gdansk Poland (satellite photo)
10. "Chinese wall" (Great Wall of China)
[clarification needed]
residential building 1971–1974 ~830 m Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine 48°25′03″N 35°03′40″E / 48.417367°N 35.061021°E / 48.417367; 35.061021
11. "Kilometergebäude"
at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base
820 m Fürstenfeldbruck Germany 48°11′50″N 11°16′32″E / 48.197118°N 11.275449°E / 48.197118; 11.275449
12. Turbine hall
of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
turbine hall 803 m Chernobyl Ukraine 51°23′19″N 30°06′23″E / 51.388749°N 30.1063263°E / 51.388749; 30.1063263
13. 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 48°54′46″N 2°24′39″E / 48.912643°N 2.410716°E / 48.912643; 2.410716
14. 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.

[edit] 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[1] Menlo Park, California United States
2. McNamara Terminal Concourse A
at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
airport terminal 2002 1600 m Detroit, Michigan United States

[edit] Oceania

No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country Coordinates
1. Willsmere - Kew Asylum 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
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

[edit] South America

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Imfeld, Hans, How Long is the SLAC Gallery? SLAC-PUB-12761, August 2007. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/12000/slac-pub-12761.html
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