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 |
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| 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
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[edit] Asia
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 11. | "Kilometergebäude" at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base |
820 m | Fürstenfeldbruck | Germany | 48°11′50″N 11°16′32″E / 48.197118°N 11.275449°E | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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[edit] Middle East
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates |
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| 1. | Terminal 3, Concourse 2 at the Dubai International Airport | Airport terminal | 2008 | 924m | Dubai | United Arab Emirates |
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[edit] References
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- ^ 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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