WORLD TALLEST TOWER

World's Tallest Towers

This table provides information about the tallest towers in the world. A tower differs from a building in that the latter has floors, and is designed for residential, business, or manufacturing use. The structures listed here are principally telecommunications towers, and while they may have observation decks or restaurants, they do not have floors all the way up.

Tower, city Year Height
(m) Height
(ft)
Tokyo Sky Tree
 Tokyo, Japan 2011 625 1,998
Canton Tower,
 Guangzhou, China 2010 600 1,968
CN Tower,
 Toronto, Canada 1976 553.3 1,815
Ostankino Tower,
 Moscow, Russia 1967 540.1 1,772
Oriental Pearl Tower,
 Shanghai, China 1994 468 1,535
Milad Tower,
 Tehran, Iran 2007 435 1,427
Menara Kuala Lumpur,
 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1994 421 1,381
Tianjin TV Tower,
 Tianjin, China 1991 415 1,362
Central Radio & TV Tower,
 Beijing, China 1992 405 1,329
Kiev TV Tower,
 Kiev, Ukraine 1973 385 1,263
Tashkent Tower,
 Tashkent, Uzbekistan 1985 375 1,230
Liberation Tower,
 Kuwait City, Kuwait 1996 372 1,220
Alma-Ata Tower,
 Almaty, Kazakhstan 1983 371 1,219
Riga TV Tower,
R iga, Latvia 1987 368 1,209
Fernsehturm Tower,
 Berlin, Germany 1969 368 1,207
NOTES: This list includes only towers.1 For buildings, see World's Tallest Buildings. Height is from top to bottom, antennas included. Towers and buildings are freestanding structures; this list does not include masts supported by guy wires. The tallest mast currently standing is the KVLY-TV Mast in North Dakota, built in 1963; it is 629 m (2,063 ft) tall. The tallest mast of all time was the Warszawa Radio Mast near Konstantynów, Poland, built in 1974; it was 646 m (2,120 ft) tall before collapsing during renovation work in 1991. (Note that the name of a building or mast may include the word “tower,” but that does not affect its status.) This list also does not include the Petronius Platform, built in 2000 in the Gulf of Mexico, which is 610 m (2,001 ft) tall without its spire, or 640 m (2,100 ft) with it. While it is the world's tallest freestanding structure, 535 m (1,754 ft) of it is underwater and it is partly supported by buoyancy.