{"id":42,"date":"2010-02-05T13:34:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T13:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/?p=42"},"modified":"2020-04-18T13:38:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T13:38:13","slug":"tallesttowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/tallesttowers\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s tallest towers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Towers differ from buildings in that they do not have floors all the way up and are not built for residential or business office use. They are, however, just as an impressive engineering feat as buildings. And most of them feature a fantastic observation deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1<\/strong>. Tokyo Skytree: 634 m (2,080 ft) &#8211; steel &#8211; Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2<\/strong>. Canton Tower: 595.7 m (1,954 ft) &#8211; steel &amp; concrete &#8211; Guangzhou, China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3<\/strong>. CN Tower: 553.33 m (1,815.4 ft) &#8211; concrete &#8211; Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4<\/strong>. Ostankino Tower: 540.1 m (1,772 ft) &#8211; concrete &#8211; Moscow, Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5<\/strong>. Oriental Pearl Tower: 468 m (1,535 ft) &#8211; concrete &#8211; Shanghai, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6<\/strong>. Milad Tower: 435 m (1,427 ft) &#8211; concrete &#8211; Tehran, Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7<\/strong>. KL Tower: 421 m (1,381 ft) &#8211; concrete &#8211; Kuala Lumpur, Malasya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8<\/strong>. Tianjin Radio and Television Tower: 415.2 m (1,362 ft) &#8211; concrete &#8211; Tianjin, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9<\/strong>. Central Radio and TV Tower: 405 m (1,329 ft) &#8211; concrete -Beijing, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10<\/strong>. Zhongyuan Tower: 388 m (1,273 ft) &#8211; steel &#8211; Zhengzhou, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyo-skytree.jp\/en\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"238\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/files\/2010\/02\/Tokyo-Skytree.jpg\" alt=\"Tokyo Skytree\" class=\"wp-image-1074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/files\/2010\/02\/Tokyo-Skytree.jpg 238w, https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/files\/2010\/02\/Tokyo-Skytree-95x200.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Tokyo Skytree<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_tallest_towers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"595\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/files\/2010\/02\/Tallest-towers.jpg\" alt=\"Tallest towers\" class=\"wp-image-1075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/files\/2010\/02\/Tallest-towers.jpg 595w, https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/files\/2010\/02\/Tallest-towers-350x204.jpg 350w, https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/files\/2010\/02\/Tallest-towers-200x116.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Tallest towers in the world, 2017. Via <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_tallest_towers\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">List of <a href=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/tallestbuildings\/\">Tallest buildings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">List of <a href=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/bridges\/\">Highest bridges<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Updated 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towers differ from buildings in that they do not have floors all the way up and are not built for residential or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[229,236],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buildings","tag-tallest","tag-towers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}