This is a list of the longest multiple-segment buildings and walls (excluding those not intended for human occupancy) in the world.
World No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country Coordinates Notesmft1. Great Wall of China Fortification From Spring and Autumn period to Ming dynasty — China 2. Walls of Benin Fortification 1450–1500 Benin City Nigeria 3. Great Wall of Gorgan Fortification 224 to 651 AD — Iran 4. Kumbhalgarh Fortification 15th century — India 5. Ranikot Fort Fortification 17th century — Pakistan 6. Diyarbakır Wall Fortification 337 Diyarbakır Turkey 7. Walls of Ston Fortification 1461 Ston Croatia 8. Prora Hotel 1936–1939 Binz Germany Three buildings, not connected; the longest is 750m9. LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) Research Facility 1994–1999 Livingston, Louisiana Hanford, Washington United States Length of each arm. 10. Sighnagi wall Fortress 18th century Sighnagi Georgia The 4-kilometer-long wall integrated 28 towers, each named according to the village with which they connected the city. 10. Government Complex, Sejong Government building 2008–2014 Sejong City South Korea Six buildings interrupted by roads; none longer than 300m 11. Klystron gallery above the Stanford Linear Accelerator Research facility 1962–1966 Menlo Park, California United States 12. Fenestrelle Fort Fortification 1728–1850 Fenestrelle Italy 13. Three Gorges Dam Dam 1994–2008 China 14. Modlin Fortress Barracks 1832–1862 Poland Two buildings, the longest 1330m15. Moscow Kremlin Wall Fortification 1485–1495 Moscow Russia 16. Dubai International Airport Cargo Gateway Airport terminal 2008 Dubai United Arab Emirates Cargo Mega Terminal at Dubai Airports 17. Apartment house 1970-s Lutsk Ukraine A single, connected building 1750m long18. Kansai International Airport Airport terminal 1991–1994 Osaka Japan 19. Red Dog Mine Conveyor Enclosure Zinc mine conveyor enclosure 1991 Alaska United States Alaska Structures. "Conveyor Pipeline Enclosures." Alaska Structures. Retrieved 21 August 2014 20. McNamara Terminal Concourse Aat the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport Airport terminal 2002 Detroit, Michigan United States
Africa No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country Coordinatesmft1. Walls of Benin Fortification 1450–1500 Benin City Nigeria
Asia
No. Building Type Year(s) built Length Country Coordinates City mft1. Great Wall of China Fortification From Spring and Autumn period to Ming dynasty China — 2. Kumbhalgarh Fortification 15th century India — 3. Ranikot Fort Fortification 17th century Pakistan 4.Diyarbakır WallFortification337 TurkeyDiyarbakır5. Kansai International Airport Airport terminal 1991–1994 Japan Osaka
Europe No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country Coordinates Notesmft1. Walls of Ston Fortification 1461 Ston Croatia 2. Prora Hotel 1936–1939 Binz Germany Three buildings, not connected; the longest is 750m3. Venetian Walls of Candia Fortification 1462–1560 Heraklion Greece 4. Fenestrelle Fort Fortification 1728–1850 Fenestrelle Italy 5. Modlin Fortress Barracks 1832–1862 Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki Poland Two buildings, the longest 1330m6. Moscow Kremlin Wall Fortification 1485–1495 Moscow Russia Longest building in Russia7. Apartment house on Sobornosti av. and Molodi st. Apartment house 1970-s Lutsk Ukraine A single, connected building 1750m long8. St. Kevin's Hospital Lunatic asylum 1852 Cork Ireland 9. Apartment house on Kolsky av. and Beringa st. (in 305th microdistrict) Apartment house 1970-s Murmansk Russia Longest apartment building in Russia10. Bymuren 1-175 Residential building 1972–1974 Hvidovre Denmark 11. Apartment house on Akademika Zabolotnogo st. Apartment house 1969–1980 Kyiv Ukraine 12. Terminal 4at the Madrid-Barajas Airport Airport terminal 2006 Madrid Spain 13. Karl Marx-Hof Residential building 1927–1930 Vienna Austria 14. "Le Lignon" Residential building 1963–1971 Geneva Switzerland 15. "Lange Jammer" Longest skyscraper in the world60 m high and 1,000 m long 1968–2010 Märkisches Viertel Germany 16. "Corviale" is the longest with a unique body, and parallelepiped building shape Residential building 1972–1982 Rome Italy 17. Potroomof the Rio Tinto Alcan Aluminium Factory Potroom Straumsvík Iceland 18.Blok 21 apartment complex – (official name B-7)Apartment house BelgradeSerbia 19. Turbine hallof the Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant Turbine hall Lubmin Germany 20. Falowiec Residential building 1970–1973 Gdańsk Poland (satellite photo)21. "Chinese wall" (Great Wall of China) Residential building 1971–1974 Dnipro Ukraine 22. "Kilometergebäude"at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base Fürstenfeldbruck Germany 23. Turbine hallof the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Turbine hall Chernobyl Ukraine 24. Serpentin (longest of buildings forming the) at Les Courtillières. Whole structure is over long in 3 buildings. Architect: Émile Aillaud. Residential building 1955–1956 Pantin France 25. Karlsborg Fortress Fortification 1819–1870 Sweden
Thermal power stations in the former Soviet Union often also have long buildings. According to Wikimapia the building of Ekibastuz GRES-1 in Kazakhstan is long, and that of the Luhansk power station north of Shchastia, Ukraine, is long.
North America No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country Coordinates Notesmft1. LIGO-Livingston Observatory 1994–1999 Louisiana United States length relates to each arm2. Klystron galleryabove the Stanford Linear Accelerator Research facility 1962–1966 Menlo Park, California United States 3. McNamara Terminal Concourse Aat the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport Airport terminal 2002 Detroit, Michigan United States 4. Gurnee Mills Shopping mall 1991 Gurnee, Illinois United States Z-shaped building measured along its winding central corridor5. Le Mur-Écran – The Windscreen Mixed-use 1970 Fermont Canada Boomerang-shaped building. Popularly known as The Wall.6. Boeing Everett Factory Airplane factory 1967 Everett, Washington United States 7. Ronald Reagan Nat'l Airport Main Terminal Airport building 1941 Arlington, Virginia United States 8. Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Hospital Building 1 Medical building 1921Hines, IllinoisUnited States 9. US Coast Guard Air Station, Washington Military building 1952 Arlington, Virginia United States
Oceania No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country CoordinatesNotesmft1. Willsmere – Kew Asylum Residential 1871 Kew, Victoria Australia 2. Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre Exhibition centre 1996 Melbourne, Victoria Australia 3. The Great Southern Standat the Melbourne Cricket Ground Stadium 1996 Melbourne, Victoria Australia 4. Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Exhibition centre 1988 Sydney, New South Wales Australia 5. Flinders Street station Railway station 1910 Melbourne, Victoria Australia
South America No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country CoordinatesNotesmft1. Central Institute of Sciences (ICC) of the University of Brasília University 1961 Brasília, Federal District (Brazil) Brazil 2. Edificio Caliche, Conjunto Habitacional Gran Vía – Caliche Building, Gran Vía housing complex Residential 1970–1974 Antofagasta Chile 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.145-149.3. Edificio Huanchaca (Curvo), Conjunto Habitacional Gran Vía – Huanchaca Building, Gran Vía housing complex Residential 1967–1969 Antofagasta Chile 4. Minhocão de Guadalupe – Guadalupe's Big Earthworm Residential 1950 Guadalupe, Rio de Janeiro Brazil 5. Plataforma Gubernamental de Gestión Financiera Public service 2017 Quito, Metropolitan District of Quito Ecuador 6. Conjunto Residencial Alcalde Mendes de Moraes (Pedregulho) Residential 1947 Rio de Janeiro, São Cristóvão Neighborhood Brazil
Middle East No. Building Type Year(s) built Length City Country CoordinatesNotesmft1. Great Wall of Gorgan Fortification 224-651 AD – Iran 2. Terminal 3, Concourse B at the Dubai International Airport Airport terminal 2008 Dubai United Arab Emirates
See also
List of buildings and structures List of tallest buildings and structures in the world
References