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Height not independently verified. Includes platform. Pyramid footprint only 33m square. Great Pyramid of Cholula: 66 217 9th century AD Cholula, Mexico: Possibly the largest pyramid by volume known to exist in the world today. [1] [2] Pyramid of the Sun: 65.5 216 AD 200 Teotihuacan, Mexico: Pyramid of Menkaure: 65 213 c. 2510 BC Giza, Egypt ...
This leveled off the natural terrain and allowed the platform to support the massive weight of the temple. [8] The base of the pyramid covers an area of approximately 2,050 square metres (22,100 sq ft). [9] The pyramid base measures 36 metres (118 ft) north-south by 51 metres (167 ft) east-west. [10]
[1] [2] The adobe brick pyramid stands 25 metres (82 ft) [3] above the surrounding plain, which is significantly shorter than the Great Pyramid of Giza's height of 146.6 metres (481 ft), but much wider, measuring 300 by 315 metres (984 by 1,033 ft) in its final form, [3] compared to the Great Pyramid's base dimensions of 230.3 by 230.3 metres ...
Tikal Temple IV is a Mesoamerican pyramid in the ruins of the ancient Maya city of Tikal in modern Guatemala. It was one of the tallest and most voluminous buildings in the Maya world. [1] The pyramid was built around 741 AD. [1] Temple IV is located at the western edge of the site core. [1]
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
Puncak Jaya region icecap, Papua Puncak Jaya (Indonesian: [ˈpuntʃak ˈdʒaja]; literally "Glorious Peak", Amungme: Nemangkawi Ninggok) [2] or Carstensz Pyramid (/ ˈ k ɑːr s t ən s /, Indonesian: Piramida Carstensz, Dutch: Carstenszpiramide) on the island of New Guinea, with an elevation of 4,884 m (16,024 ft), is the highest mountain peak of an island on Earth, and the highest peak in ...
Pyramid of Nyuserre Ini. 12 megalithic limestone beams 10 meters long weighing 90 tons each, forming the roof of burial chamber and antechamber. [54] Moai at Easter Island. Largest moai 70 to 86 tons. The tallest one, Paro, was moved 3.75 miles (6.04 km). [55] Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt. Largest slabs on burial chamber, 80 tons.
Numbers are given in global hectares per capita. The world-average ecological footprint in 2016 was 2.75 global hectares per person (22.6 billion in total). With a world-average biocapacity of 1.63 global hectares (gha) per person (12.2 billion in total), this leads to a global ecological deficit of 1.1 global hectares per person (10.4 billion ...