🏙️ Top 10 Tallest Buildings in the World

Skyscraper records get broken every few years as new mega-towers finish construction, but this list has been stable for a while — nothing has topped Dubai's Burj Khalifa since it opened in 2010. Heights are to the architectural tip, the standard way these are ranked.

1. Burj Khalifa — Dubai, UAE — 828 m (2,717 ft), 2010
2. Merdeka 118 — Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — 679 m (2,227 ft), 2023
3. Shanghai Tower — Shanghai, China — 632 m (2,073 ft), 2015
4. Makkah Royal Clock Tower — Mecca, Saudi Arabia — 601 m (1,972 ft), 2012
5. Ping An Finance Centre — Shenzhen, China — 599 m (1,965 ft), 2017
6. Lotte World Tower — Seoul, South Korea — 556 m (1,823 ft), 2016
7. One World Trade Center — New York City, USA — 541 m (1,776 ft), 2014
8. Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre — Guangzhou, China — 530 m (1,739 ft), 2016
9. Tianjin CTF Finance Centre — Tianjin, China — 530 m (1,739 ft), 2019
10. CITIC Tower — Beijing, China — 528 m (1,732 ft), 2018

Notice a pattern? Eight of the ten were built in the last decade or so, and seven are in China alone — a good reminder that "tallest in the world" lists age fast.

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