Famous landmarks to scale
How tall are famous landmarks and natural wonders compared with each other? Here they are drawn to scale in small groups, from a moai on Easter Island to Mount Everest. Every height comes from an encyclopedia or an official source, and each one has its own page.
Quick comparisons
- Mount Everest is about 27 times as high as Tokyo Tower (333 m).
- Tokyo Tower is about 7.2 times as tall as the Statue of Liberty without its pedestal (46 m).
- Hyperion is about 2.5 times as tall as the Statue of Liberty without its pedestal (46 m).
From the average moai on Easter Island to the Coney Island Cyclone
The Coney Island Cyclone is about 5.8 times as tall as an average moai on Easter Island (4 m).
Moai statue
4 m (13.1 ft) tall
There are more than 900 moai, and the tallest one ever erected, Paro, was almost 10 m high.
Saguaro cactus
12 m (39.4 ft) tall
A saguaro normally does not grow its first arm until it is 50 to 70 years old.
Itsukushima torii gate
15 m (49.2 ft) tall
The great torii of Itsukushima seems to float, but only at high tide; the current gate dates to 1875.
Coney Island Cyclone
23 m (75.5 ft) tall
The wooden Cyclone opened on 26 June 1927 and was made a New York City landmark in 1988.
From the full-grown coconut palm to the Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is about 1.8 times as tall as a full-grown coconut palm (25 m).
Coconut palm (tall type)
25 m (82 ft) tall
Coconut palms can be irrigated with seawater, which is unusual among trees.
Record surfed wave (Nazaré)
26.2 m (86 ft) tall
To measure it, experts corrected video frames for the camera angle, then used Steudtner himself as a ruler to turn pixels into feet.
Himeji Castle main keep
31.5 m (103 ft) tall
In World War II a firebomb landed on the castle’s top floor but failed to explode, and the castle came through the war unscathed.
Statue of Liberty (statue only)
46 m (151 ft) tall
The copper statue is 46 m from heel to torch; with its pedestal and foundation it rises 93 m above the ground.
From the Wiener Riesenrad to Hyperion
Hyperion is about 1.8 times as tall as the Wiener Riesenrad (64.8 m).
Wiener Riesenrad (Vienna)
64.8 m (212 ft) tall
Built in 1897, the Riesenrad appears in the 1949 film noir The Third Man and the 1987 Bond film The Living Daylights.
Jagannath Temple (Puri)
65 m (213 ft) tall
The tower is crowned by the Nila Chakra, an eight-spoked wheel, and by custom a different flag is raised on it every day.
Neuschwanstein Castle
65 m (213 ft) tall
Neuschwanstein inspired Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle, yet King Ludwig II lived there for only 172 days.
Hyperion (tallest tree)
116 m (381 ft) tall
Hyperion, a coast redwood found in 2006, is now off limits: entering its closed area can bring fines of up to $5,000.
From the London Eye to Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius is about 9.5 times as high as the London Eye (135 m).
London Eye
135 m (443 ft) tall
One turn of the London Eye takes about 30 minutes, in 32 capsules that each carry up to 25 people.
Tokyo Tower
333 m (1,093 ft) tall
Tokyo Tower opened in 1958 and is taller than the Eiffel Tower, though it weighs about 4,000 tons, 3,300 less.
Mount Vesuvius
1,281 m (4,203 ft) high
The AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae.
From Mount St. Helens to Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro is about 2.3 times as high as Mount St. Helens (2,549 m).
Mount St. Helens
2,549 m (8,363 ft) high
Its 1980 eruption blew away the top 401 m of the mountain and left a horseshoe-shaped crater 1.6 km wide.
Mount Fuji
3,776 m (12,388 ft) high
Mount Fuji is an active volcano; its most recent eruption began on 16 December 1707.
Matterhorn
4,478 m (14,692 ft) high
On the first ascent in 1865, a sudden fall during the descent killed four of the seven climbers.
Mount Kilimanjaro
5,895 m (19,341 ft) high
Almost 85% of the ice on Kilimanjaro disappeared between October 1912 and June 2011.
From Mount Everest to Mount Everest
Mount Everest
8,849 m (29,032 ft) high
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people documented on the summit, on 29 May 1953.
