List of longest buildings in the world

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	200BC–17th century	8,851,800 m	—	China	40°40′37″N 117°13′55″E / 40.67693°N 117.23193°E
2	Kumbhalgarh	fortification	15th century	36,000 m[1]	—	India
3	Ranikot Fort	fortification	17th century	26,000 m[2]	—	Pakistan
4	Walls of Ston	fortification	1461	5500 m	Ston	Croatia
5	LIGO-Livingston	observatory	1994–1999	each arm 4000 m[3]	Louisiana	United States
6	Klystron gallery above the Stanford Linear Accelerator	research facility	1962–1966	3073.72 m[4]	Menlo Park, California	United States	37°24′53″N 122°13′18″W / 37.41472°N 122.22167°W
7	Three Gorges Dam	dam	1994-2008	2,335 m[5]		China
8	Modlin Fortress	barracks	1832–1862	2250 m		Poland
9	Moscow Kremlin Wall	fortification	1485–1495	2235 m	Moscow	Russia	55°45′06″N 37°37′04″E / 55.751667°N 37.617778°E
10	Dubai International Airport Cargo Gateway	airport terminal	2008	1774 m[6]	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	25°15′00″N 55°21′32″E / 25.24991°N 55.35893°E
11	Apartment house on Sobornosti av. and Molodyozhi st.	apartment house		1750 m	Lutsk	Ukraine	50°45′40″N 25°22′07″E / 50.761219°N 25.368719°E
12	Kansai International Airport	airport terminal	1991–1994	1700 m	Osaka	Japan
13	Red Dog Mine Conveyer Enclosure.[7]	zinc mine conveyer enclosure	1991	1700 m	Alaska	United States
14	McNamara Terminal Concourse A at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport	airport terminal	2002	1600 m	Detroit, Michigan	United States
15	Apartment house on Kolsky av. and Beringa st.	apartment house	1970-s	1488 m[8]	Murmansk	Russia	68°55′05″N 33°05′40″E / 68.918002°N 33.094526°E

Africa

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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

Europe

No.	Building	Type	Year(s) built	Length	City	Country	Coordinates
1.	Walls of Ston	fortification	1461	5500 m	Ston	Croatia
2.	Venetian Walls of Candia	fortification	1462–1560	4300 m	Heraklion	Greece	35°19′55″N 25°07′50″E / 35.331987°N 25.130427°E
3.	Modlin Fortress	barracks	1832–1862	2250 m		Poland
4.	Moscow Kremlin Wall	fortification	1485–1495	2235 m	Moscow	Russia	55°45′06″N 37°37′04″E / 55.751667°N 37.617778°E
5.	Apartment house on Sobornosti av. and Molodyozhi st.	apartment house		3265  m	Lutsk	Ukraine	50°45′40″N 25°22′07″E / 50.761219°N 25.368719°E
6.	Apartment house on Kolsky av. and Beringa st.	apartment house	1970-s	1488 m[8]	Murmansk	Russia	68°55′05″N 33°05′40″E / 68.918002°N 33.094526°E
7.	Bymuren 1-175	residential building	1972–1974	1475 m		Denmark
8.	Terminal 4 at the Madrid-Barajas Airport	airport terminal	2006	1175 m	Madrid	Spain
9.	Karl Marx-Hof	residential building	1927–1930	1100 m	Vienna	Austria
10.	"Le Lignon"	residential building	1963–1971	1060 m	Geneva	Switzerland
11.	"Lange Jammer" Längstes Hochhaus der Welt mit 60 Meter Höhe und 1000 Meter Länge		1968–2010	1000 m	Märkisches Viertel	Germany
11.	"Corviale" is the longest with a unique body, and parallelepiped building shape	residential building	1972–1982	1000 m	Rome	Italy	41°51′03″N 12°24′42″E / 41.850959°N 12.411654°E
12.	Turbine hall of the Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant	turbine hall		955 m	Lubmin	Germany	54°08′33″N 13°39′36″E / 54.142391°N 13.660035°E
13.	Falowiec	residential building	1970–1973	860 m	Gdańsk	Poland	(satellite photo)
14.	"Chinese wall" (Great Wall of China)	residential building	1971–1974	~830 m	Dnipropetrovsk	Ukraine	48°25′03″N 35°03′40″E / 48.417367°N 35.061021°E
15.	"Kilometergebäude" at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base			820 m	Fürstenfeldbruck	Germany	48°11′50″N 11°16′32″E / 48.197118°N 11.275449°E
16.	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 30.106326°E
17.	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
18.	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 .

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.

North America

No.	Building	Type	Year(s) built	Length	City	Country	Coordinates
1.	LIGO-Livingston	observatory	1994–1999	each arm 4000 m[9]	Louisiana	United States
2.	Klystron gallery above the Stanford Linear Accelerator	research facility	1962–1966	3073.72 m[10]	Menlo Park, California	United States	37°24′53″N 122°13′18″W / 37.41472°N 122.22167°W
3.	McNamara Terminal Concourse A at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport	airport terminal	2002	1600 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	700 m	Brasília, Federal District (Brazil)	Brazil	15°45′48″S 47°52′10″W / 15.763369°S 47.869451°W
2.	Edificio Caliche, Conjunto Habitacional Gran Vía - Caliche Building, Gran Vía housing complex [11]	residential	1970-1974	680 m	Antofagasta	Chile	23°40′34″S 70°24′14″W / 23.676206°S 70.403977°W
3.	Minhocão de Guadalupe - Guadalupe's Big Earthworm	residential	1950	460 m	Guadalupe, Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	22°58′47″S 43°13′49″W / 22.979658°S 43.230245°W
4.	Edificio Huanchaca (Curvo), Conjunto Habitacional Gran Vía - Huanchaca Building, Gran Vía housing complex[12]	residential	1967-1969	380 m	Antofagasta	Chile	23°40′31″S 70°24′15″W / 23.675306°S 70.404271°W

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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

See also

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

References

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3. https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
4. Imfeld, Hans. "How Long is the SLAC Gallery? SLAC-PUB-12761, August 2007". Retrieved 2012-08-04.
5. https://earth.esa.int/web/earth-watching/image-of-the-week/content/-/article/three-gorges-dam-china-landsat
6. Cargo Mega Terminal at Dubai Airports
7. Alaska Structures. "Conveyer Pipeline Enclosures." Alaska Structures. Retrieved 21 August 2014
8. Яндекс.Карты
9. https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
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11. 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.
12. 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.