enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of cities with the most skyscrapers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_with_the...

    The metropolis encompasses an area of 1,140 square kilometers, which is more comparable to the areas covered by other cities on the list such as Suzhou, Wuhan, and Barcelona. This is not to be confused with Taipei City which is only 271.80 square kilometers and is the downtown core that governs the whole metropolis, like the City of London and ...

  3. Dubai Frame - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Frame

    The Dubai Frame (Arabic: برواز دبي) is an observatory, museum and monument in Zabeel Park, Dubai. [ 4 ] It holds the record for the largest frame in the world. [ 4 ][ 5 ] The building has a height of 150.24 meters and a width of 95.53 meters. [ 5 ] The building mainly serves as an observatory, providing views of old Dubai in the north ...

  4. List of United States cities by area - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States...

    t. e. This list ranks the top 150 U.S. cities (incorporated places) by 2024 land area. Total areas including water are also given, but when ranked by total area, a number of coastal cities appear disproportionately larger. San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2).

  5. Skyscraper - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper

    A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources define skyscrapers as being at least 100 meters (330 ft) [ 1 ] or 150 meters (490 ft) [ 2 ] in height, though there is no universally accepted definition, other than being very tall high-rise buildings.

  6. Fathom - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathom

    Miners also use it as a unit of area equal to 6 feet square (3.34 m 2) in the plane of a vein. [2] In Britain, it can mean the quantity of wood in a pile of any length measuring 6 feet (1.8 m) square in cross section. [2] In Central Europe, the klafter was the corresponding unit of comparable length, as was the toise in France.

  7. List of tallest buildings - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings

    The 828-metre (2,717 ft) tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai has been the tallest building since 2010. [1] The Burj Khalifa has been classified as megatall. [2] A diagram showing the tallest buildings as of 2024. This is a list of the tallest buildings. Tall buildings, such as skyscrapers, are intended here as enclosed structures with continuously ...

  8. Square foot - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_foot

    Comparison of 1 square foot with some Imperial and metric units of area. The square foot (pl. square feet; abbreviated sq ft, sf, or ft 2; also denoted by ' 2 and ⏍) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States and partially in Canada, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana, Liberia, Malaysia, Myanmar ...

  9. Statue of Liberty - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty

    In form, it is a truncated pyramid, 62 feet (19 m) square at the base and 39.4 feet (12.0 m) at the top. The four sides are identical in appearance. Above the door on each side, there are ten disks upon which Bartholdi proposed to place the coats of arms of the states (between 1876 and 1889, there were 38 of them), although this was not done.