New Global Map of Every Country’s Tallest Building

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You can now see the tallest building in every country of the world on one big map, thanks to an obsessive documentarian of engineering accomplishments.

The anonymous cartographer described the new map on the website, Google Earth Hacks using his handle, blackdogprod.

“I have fanatically spent the last year thoroughly studying every country in the world to find the correct building,” blackdogprod wrote. “I’ve used every resource available on the internet to find and verify the tallest building in every country, with the most accurate height available.”

Finally, you can settle that debate over the tallest building in Uganda. It is the Kampala Hilton at 295 feet! And in Trinidad and Tobago, the International Waterfront Towers take the blue ribbon at 394 feet.

The tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai stands 2,717 feet tall. That’s an order of magnitude higher than the tallest building in most countries. If that sounds preposterous, wait until you see it from space. The image below was captured by a GeoEye satellite and has a resolution of half a meter (1.65 feet).

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