Friday, April 24, 2009

Skyscrapers in China

China is becoming a country full of skyscrapers. And the skyscrapers in China are nothing compared to the tall buildings in the Netherlands.

The Burj Dubai is the tallest completed building in the world now, with a height of 818 m.

Here is a list of the tallest buildings in China:

- 3th place in the world: Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai, 492 m


- 6th place: Nanjing Greenland Financial Center. Nanjing, 450 m




- 8th place: Guangzhou International Finance Center, Guangzhou, 438 m




- 9th place: Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai, 421 m




- 10th place: Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kong, 415 m




- 12th place: CITIC Plaza, Guangzhou, 391 m




- 13th place: Shun Hing Square, Shenzhen, 384 m




- 15th place: Central Plaza, Hong Kong, 374 m



The tallest structure in the Netherlands is the Gerbrandy Tower. It has a concrete tower with a heigt of 100 meters on which a guyed aerial mast is mounted. It's heigt is in total 366.8 meters long.

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