Tallest Towers

How many tall towers and skyscrapers do we have? How tall are they? Here comes all the information on the tallest towers in the whole, wide, world!

What is the tallest building in the world? The Burj Khalifa is the tallest! It is 829.8 m! That is really tall! The Burj Khalifa is located in Dubai, UAE. There are 163 floors. On January 4th 2010 the building opened for the public to come and see it. There is a viewing floor to check out the view from so far above the ground and a speedy elevator that takes only a minute to get to the top! 

The second tallest is the Shanghai Tower. It is 632 m with 121 floors! Almost like the Burj Khalifa only just a few less meters. The location is Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai in China. It cost $4.2 billion dollars. That's expensive! The estimated time for completion was 2015 but it was only a year behind (2014). 

I'm going to skip the third and go on to the 6th because this building was once called the tallest building in the world. Isn't it funny how a building can start out as the tallest in the world and then fall into 6th like the Empire State Building and fall into 24th? Anyway, I'm talking about the Taipei 101. It's located in Taiwan. The construction started in 1999 and finished in 2004. That's a bit of an  idea of how long the whole process takes. The Taipei 101 has the fastest elevator! 1010 meters per each 1 minute. 

I know this isn't a lot of information but this is only an introduction. I've got some links on more buildings with further information. I used Wikipedia to find the information I posted. I'm also adding websites with useful info.
-Wikipedia
-Google/Wikipedia
-Trip Advisor