"The Shard on the southbank opposite the Tower of London may now be the tallest building in Europe at 309 metres high but it would be a pretty average skyscraper in Dubai whose Burj Khalifa is more than half-a-kilometre higher.
There are 15 other Dubai skyscrapers higher than The Shard according to the skyscraper statistics website Emporis, and that includes the five tallest residential towers in the world. And remarkably Dubai has one more skyscraper than Shanghai, the commercial capital of China, the world’s second largest economy.
However, the Burj Khalifa’s record could soon be topped by Prince Alwaleed’s Kingdom Tower in Jeddah at one kilometre high. Japan’s new Tokyo Skytree tower falls well short despite not actually being a building (click here), although it is now the world’s tallest tower"
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