List of longest buildings

This is a list of the longest 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	From Spring and Autumn period to Ming dynasty	8,851,800 m	—	China	40.67693°N 117.23193°E
2.	Great Wall of Gorgan	Fortification	224 to 651 AD	195,000 m[1]	—	Iran
3.	Kumbhalgarh	Fortification	15th century	36,000 m[2]	—	India
4.	Ranikot Fort	Fortification	17th century	26,000 m[3]	—	Pakistan
5.	Diyarbakir Wall	Fortification	337	6,000 m	Diyarbakir	Turkey
6.	Walls of Ston	Fortification	1461	5,500 m	Ston	Croatia
7.	Prora	Hotel	1936-1939	4,500 m	Binz	Germany	54°26′2″N 13°34′30″E
8.	LIGO-Livingston	Observatory	1994–1999	each arm 4,000 m[4]	Livingston, Louisiana	United States
9.	Government Complex, Sejong	Government building	2008-2014	3,500 m[5]	Sejong City	South Korea	36°30′15″N 127°15′50″E
10.	Klystron gallery above the Stanford Linear Accelerator	Research facility	1962–1966	3,073.72 m[6]	Menlo Park, California	United States	37.41472°N 122.22167°W
11.	Fenestrelle Fort	Fortification	1728-1850	3,000+	Fenestrelle	Italy	45°01′47″N 7°03′38″E
12.	Three Gorges Dam	Dam	1994-2008	2,335 m[7]	—	China
13.	Modlin Fortress	Barracks	1832–1862	2,250 m	—	Poland
14.	Moscow Kremlin Wall	Fortification	1485–1495	2,235 m	Moscow	Russia	55.751667°N 37.617778°E
15.	Karl Marx-Hof	Residential building	1927–1930	2,200 m	Vienna	Austria
16.	Dubai International Airport Cargo Gateway	Airport terminal	2008	1,774 m[8]	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	25.24991°N 55.35893°E
17.	Apartment house on Sobornosti av. and Molodi st.	Apartment house	1970-s	1,750 m	Lutsk	Ukraine	50.761219°N 25.368719°E
18.	Kansai International Airport	Airport terminal	1991–1994	1,700 m	Osaka	Japan
19.	Red Dog Mine Conveyer Enclosure.[9]	Zinc mine conveyer enclosure	1991	1,700 m	—	United States
20.	McNamara Terminal Concourse A at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport	Airport terminal	2002	1,600 m	Detroit, Michigan	United States
20.	Saint Kevin's Lunatic Asylum	Lunatic Asylum	1852	1,600 m	Cork	Ireland	51.896753°N 8.507266°W

Africa

Asia

No.	Building	Type	Year(s) built	Length	City	Country	Coordinates
1.	Great Wall of China	Fortification	From Spring and Autumn period to Ming dynasty	8,851.8 km	—	China
2.	Kumbhalgarh	Fortification	15th century	36 km	—	India
3.	Ranikot Fort	Fortification	17th century	8.6 km	—	Pakistan
4.	Kansai International Airport	Airport terminal	1991–1994	1,700 m	Osaka	Japan

Europe

No.	Building	Type	Year(s) built	Length	City	Country	Coordinates
1.	Walls of Ston	Fortification	1461	5,500 m	Ston	Croatia
2.	Prora	Hotel	1936-1939	4,500 m	Binz	Germany	54°26′2″N 13°34′30″E
3.	Venetian Walls of Candia	Fortification	1462–1560	4,300 m	Heraklion	Greece	35.331987°N 25.130427°E
4.	Fenestrelle Fort	Fortification	1728-1850	3,000+ m	Fenestrelle	Italy	45°01′47″N 7°03′38″E
5.	Modlin Fortress	Barracks	1832–1862	2,250 m	—	Poland
6.	Moscow Kremlin Wall	Fortification	1485–1495	2,235 m	Moscow	Russia	55.751667°N 37.617778°E
7.	Karl Marx-Hof	Residential building	1927–1930	2,200 m	Vienna	Austria
8.	Apartment house on Sobornosti av. and Molodi st.	Apartment house	1970-s	1,750 m	Lutsk	Ukraine	50.761219°N 25.368719°E
9.	Saint Kevin's Lunatic Asylum	Lunatic Asylum	1852	1,600 m	Cork	Ireland	51.896753°N 8.507266°W
10.	Apartment house on Kolsky av. and Beringa st.	Apartment house	1970-s	1,488 m[10]	Murmansk	Russia	68.918002°N 33.094526°E
11.	Bymuren 1-175	Residential building	1972–1974	1,475 m	Hvidovre	Denmark	55.6272°N 12.4462°E
12.	Apartment house on Akademika Zabolotnogo st.	Apartment house	1969–1980	1,240 m	Kiev	Ukraine	50.364066°N 30.463371°E
13.	Terminal 4, Madrid-Barajas Airport	Airport terminal	2006	1,175 m	Madrid	Spain
14.	Potroom of the Hydro Husnes Aluminium Factory	Potroom		~1065 m	Husnes	Norway	59.8653°N 5.7672°E
15.	Le Lignon	Residential building	1963–1971	1,060 m	Geneva	Switzerland	46.20317°N 6.09792°E
16.	Pennygången	Apartment house	1959	1,000 m	Gothenburg	Sweden	57.67411°N 11.91469°E
17.	"Lange Jammer" Longest skyscraper in the world 60 m high and 1,000 m long		1968–2010	1,000 m	Märkisches Viertel	Germany	52.5957°N 13.3553°E
18.	"Corviale" is the longest with a unique body, and parallelepiped building shape	Residential building	1972–1982	1,000 m	Rome	Italy	41.850959°N 12.411654°E
19.	Potroom of the Rio Tinto Alcan Aluminium Factory	Potroom		~1000 m	Straumsvík	Iceland	64.0457°N 22.0275°W
20.	Blok 21 apartment complex - (official name B-7)	Apartment house		972.5 m	Belgrade	Serbia	44.8144°N 20.4272°E
21.	Turbine hall, Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant	Turbine hall		955 m	Lubmin	Germany	54.142391°N 13.660035°E
22.	Falowiec	Residential building	1970–1973	860 m	Gdańsk	Poland	(satellite photo)
23.	"Chinese wall" (Great Wall of China)	Residential building	1971–1974	~830 m	Dnipro	Ukraine	48.417367°N 35.061021°E
24.	"Kilometergebäude" at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base			820 m	Fürstenfeldbruck	Germany	48.197118°N 11.275449°E
25.	Turbine hall, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant	Turbine hall		803 m	Chernobyl	Ukraine	51.388749°N 30.106326°E
26.	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	48.912643°N 2.410716°E

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

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

Russian fortification line of 1560th (Zhizdra - Pereyaslavl-Ryazanskiy) have length ~600 km. Full length of all Russian fortification lines - ~4,000 km.

North America

No.	Building	Type	Year(s) built	Length	City	Country	Coordinates
1.	LIGO-Livingston	Observatory	1994–1999	each arm 4,000 m[4]	Livingston, Louisiana	United States
2.	Klystron gallery above the Stanford Linear Accelerator	Research facility	1962–1966	3,073.72 m[11]	Menlo Park, California	United States	37.41472°N 122.22167°W
3.	Red Dog Mine Conveyer Enclosure.[12]	Zinc mine conveyer enclosure	1991	1,700 m	—	United States
4.	McNamara Terminal Concourse A at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport	Airport terminal	2002	1,600 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	750 m	Brasília, Federal District	Brazil	15.763369°S 47.869451°W
2.	Edificio Caliche, Conjunto Habitacional Gran Vía - Caliche Building, Gran Vía housing complex [13]	Residential	1970-1974	680 m	Antofagasta	Chile	23.676206°S 70.403977°W
3.	Edificio Huanchaca (Curvo), Conjunto Habitacional Gran Vía - Huanchaca Building, Gran Vía housing complex[13]	Residential	1967-1969	380 m	Antofagasta	Chile	23.675306°S 70.404271°W
4.	Minhocão de Guadalupe - Guadalupe's Big Earthworm	Residential	1950	320 m	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	22.979658°S 43.230245°W
5.	Plataforma Gubernamental de Gestión Financiera	Public service	2017	310 m	Quito	Ecuador	0.1732°S 78.4841°W
6.	Conjunto Residencial Alcalde Mendes de Moraes (Pedregulho)	Residential	1947	270 m	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	22.8924°S 43.2332°W

Middle East

No.	Building	Type	Year(s) built	Length	City	Country	Coordinates
1.	Great Wall of Gorgan	Fortification	224-651 AD	195,000m	—	Iran
2.	Terminal 3, Concourse B at the Dubai International Airport	Airport terminal	2008	924m	Dubai	United Arab Emirates

See also

• List of buildings and structures
• List of tallest buildings and structures in the world

References

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2. http://www.rajasthaninfo.org/kumbhalgarh.htm
3. Ondaatje, Christopher (May 1996). Sindh revisited: a journey in the footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Burton : 1842-1849, the India years. HarperCollins Publishers. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-00-255436-7.
4. https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
5. https://www.sejong.go.kr/eng/sub03_0112.do
6. Imfeld, Hans. "How Long is the SLAC Gallery? SLAC-PUB-12761, August 2007". Archived from the original on 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2012-08-04.
7. https://earth.esa.int/web/earth-watching/image-of-the-week/content/-/article/three-gorges-dam-china-landsat
8. Cargo Mega Terminal at Dubai Airports Archived 2012-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
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10. Какой должна была бы главная площадь города, если б все мечты архитекторов сбылись // ТВ-21
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12. Alaska Structures. "Conveyer Pipeline Enclosures." Alaska Structures. Retrieved 21 August 2014
13. 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.