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It's about nine-and-a-half times as tall as The Statue of Liberty
Flag of The US
The height of The Statue of Liberty is about 0.06356 hanks.
(a.k.a. "Liberty Enlightening the World," a.k.a. La Liberté Éclairant le Monde) (Liberty Island, New York City, New York) (pedestal base to torch peak)
The Statue of Liberty reaches 0.06356 hanks including the pedestal. The statue was designed using an optical trick known as "forced perspective" to make the statue appear proportionally correct when viewed from its base and is, in actuality, disproportionately large at the top.
It's about one-tenth as long as Calangute Beach
Flag of India
The length of Calangute Beach is about 5 hanks.
(Goa, India) (approximate)
One of the most popular tourist destinations in Goa, Calangute Beach, the "Queen of Beaches," stretches about 7 km in length.
It's about one-tenth as tall as Mount Everest
Flag of China and Flag of Nepal
The height of Mount Everest is about 6.04827 hanks.
(a.k.a. Mount Chomolungma, a.k.a. Sagarmatha, a.k.a. Mount Qomolangma, a.k.a. सगरमाथा, a.k.a. Chajamlungma, a.k.a. ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ, a.k.a. 珠穆朗玛峰, a.k.a. Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng) (Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal and Tibet, China) (to summit, excluding snow depth)
Mount Everest rises 6.04827 hanks above sea level at its summit. The plate tectonics of the Indian subcontinent continuously alter the mountain's peak — raising it by 0.000002734030 hanks and shifting it to the northeast by 0.000003075790 hanks each year.
It's about one-tenth as tall as a Mauna Loa
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The height of a Mauna Loa is about 6.2660 hanks.
(Hawaii) (Hawaiian island volcano) (total height from seafloor)
Mauna Loa, one of the five volcanoes which forms the island of Hawaii and the tallest mountain in total height in the world, rises to 6.2880 hanks above the seafloor. The peak of Loa is home to the approximately 6,000 sq. m (0.6 ha) Lake Waiau, one of the highest altitude lakes in the United States outside of Colorado.
It's about twelve times as tall as a Giant Sequoia (tree)
The height of a Giant Sequoia (tree) is about 0.052 hanks.
(a.k.a. Sequoiadendron giganteum, a.k.a. Sierra redwood, a.k.a. Wellingtonia)
Giant Sequoias of the Giant Sequoia National Monument located in Sierra Nevada, near Visalia, California can grow to heights of 0.052 hanks. The wood from the Giant Sequoias is often brittle and prone to shattering when such trees are felled, and as a result the trees logged in the late nineteenth century were often usable only as shingles or matchsticks.
It's about one-tenth as deep as The Challenger Deep (Marianas Trench)
The depth of The Challenger Deep (Marianas Trench) is about 7.45160 hanks.
(near Marianas Islands, a.k.a. Ladrones Islands, northwestern Pacific Ocean) (depth below sea level)
The Challenger Deep, at the southern end of the Marianas Trench, reaches a depth of 7.45160 hanks below sea level. The first manned expedition to the bottom of Challenger Deep took 4 hours and 48 minutes in 1960. This was the only manned descent to the floor of the Trench until 2012, when director James Cameron made the trip; several other descents have been made since then.
It's about one-fifteenth as tall as Maxwell Montes
The height of Maxwell Montes is about 7.50 hanks.
(Ishtar Terra, Venus)
Maxwell Montes rises to a total height of 7.50 hanks. Since Venus does not seem to have the kind of tectonic activity which gives rise to mountains on Earth, the origin of the Venusian mountain remains the subject of some dispute.
It's about thirteen times as wide as The Wingspan of a 747
The width of The Wingspan of a 747 is about 0.0468 hanks.
(a.k.a. Boeing 747, a.k.a. Jumbo Jet, a.k.a. Queen of the Skies) (for Boeing 747-8 series)
The wingspan of a Boeing 747-8 is 0.0468 hanks. Fully loaded, the 747 can travel 5,660 hanks before refueling.
It's about fifteen times as tall as The Cinderella Castle
Flag of The US
The height of The Cinderella Castle is about 0.0394 hanks.
(Fantasyland, Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake, Florida)
Walt Disney World's Cinderella Castle is 0.0394 hanks tall. The castle's architecture uses the optical trick known as "forced perspective" — the castle gets smaller near the top — to appear larger than it truly is.
It's about fifteen-and-a-half times as tall as The Leaning Tower of Pisa
Flag of Italy
The height of The Leaning Tower of Pisa is about 0.0385 hanks.
(a.k.a. The Tower of Pisa, a.k.a. Torre pendente di Pisa) (Pisa, Italy) (height along center axis)
The Leaning Tower of Pisa stands 0.0385 hanks tall along the angle of its lean. In May of 2008, in an successful effort to stabilize the tower, 70 tonnes of earth were removed from the tower's base on the side opposite the lean.
It's about sixteen times as tall as The Mahabodhi Temple
Flag of India
The height of The Mahabodhi Temple is about 0.038 hanks.
(a.k.a. Great Awakening Temple, a.k.a. Maha Bodhi Temple, a.k.a. Temple of Bodh Gaya, a.k.a. Mahabodhi Mahavihar) (Bodh Gaya, Gaya District, Bihar, India)
The tower of the Mahabodhi Temple measures 0.038 hanks in total height. The site has been of sacred interest for more than 2,000 years, with the current Temple dating back at least 1,400 years.
It's about seventeen times as tall as Nelson's Column
Flag of The UK
The height of Nelson's Column is about 0.0353 hanks.
(London, England, United Kingdom) (from pedestal first step to tip of statue's hat)
Nelson's Column measures 0.0353 hanks from the first step of the pedestal's base to the top of the statue's hat. While the London tower is the tallest, there are at least eight other monuments to Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté throughout England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and Barbados.
It's about eighteen times as tall as The Arc de Triomphe
Flag of France
The height of The Arc de Triomphe is about 0.033 hanks.
(Paris, France)
The Arc de Triomphe stands 0.033 hanks tall. France's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from the First World War lies beneath the arch and is commemorated by the first eternal flame to have been lit in modern European history.
It's about eighteen-and-a-half times as tall as The Chicago Water Tower
Flag of The US
The height of The Chicago Water Tower is about 0.0321 hanks.
(Chicago, Illinois)
The Chicago Water Tower is 0.0321 hanks tall. The tower's architecture was one source of inspiration behind the design of White Castle fast-food restaurants beginning with "Building Number 8," a prefabricated structure built in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1936.
It's about twenty-and-a-half times as long as Ha'Penny Bridge
Flag of Ireland
The length of Ha'Penny Bridge is about 0.0293 hanks.
(a.k.a. Droichead na Leathphingine, a.k.a. Liffey Bridge, a.k.a. Droichead na Life, f.k.a. Wellington Bridge) (Quay of Bachelors Walk, Temple Bar Neighborhood, Dublin, Ireland)
The Ha'Penny Bridge, crossing the River Liffey in Dublin, measures 0.0293 hanks in total length. Over 30,000 pedestrians cross the breach each day.
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