* 2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at, at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.

The world's highest unconfirmed temperature was a temperature flare up during a heat burst in June 1967, with a temperature of.

It is the third highest peak in Southeast Asia, making Borneo the world's third highest island.

It also houses the world's highest church inside a skyscraper, Sky City Church.

Cotopaxi in Ecuador is one of the world's highest active volcanos.

Unemployment was very low, and the Faroese were enjoying one of the world's highest standards of living.

Savings rate hovered among the world's highest, at around 8 % until the 80s.

Germany has one of the world's highest levels of education, technological development, and economic productivity.

The countries in Africa had the highest pre-tax Gini coefficients in 2008-2009, with South Africa the world's highest at 0. 7.

This trend now has extended to other resorts worldwide, but the concentration in Las Vegas is still the world's highest: nineteen of the world's twenty-five largest hotels by room count are on the Strip, with a total of over 67, 000 rooms.

Since its post-WW2 economic boom in the 1970s, Finland's GDP per capita has been among the world's highest.

Savings rate hovered among the world's highest, at around 8 % until the 1980s.

Kangchenjunga, on the border between Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, is the highest point in India at and the world's 3rd highest peak.

* The Himalayan range is considered as the world's highest mountain range, with its tallest peak Mt.

According to the Human Development Index, the country enjoys a very high standard of living, and, according to The Economist, has the world's 8th highest quality of life.

The economy of Japan is the third largest national economy in the world after the United States and the People's Republic of China and is the world's second largest developed economy According to the International Monetary Fund, the country's per capita GDP ( PPP ) was at $ 34, 739 or the 25th highest in 2011.

A highlight for Polgár was her elimination of the tournament's No. 1 seed and world's fifth highest rated player, Sergey Karjakin.

In 2010, Monocle ranked Munich as the world's most livable city ( in 2012, Munich was ranked fifth in Monocle's ranking, yet remained the highest ranked city in Germany ).

Mali has one of the world's highest rates of infant mortality, with 106 deaths per 1, 000 live births.

Though official economic statistics are not published, year 2011 estimates place the national product at $ 6. 888 billion and the world's highest per capita income is $ 186, 175.

Qutub Minar is the world's tallest brick minaret, commenced by Qutb-ud-din Aybak of the Slave dynasty.

The most famous pyramids are the Egyptian pyramids — huge structures built of brick or stone, some of which are among the world's largest constructions.

Richmond emerged from the smoldering rubble of the Civil War as an economic powerhouse, with iron front buildings and massive brick factories. Canal traffic peaked in the 1860s and slowly gave way to railroads, allowing Richmond to become a major railroad crossroads, eventually including the site of the world's first triple railroad crossing.

Many of its medieval buildings are notable, including the Church of Our Lady, whose brick spire reaches, making it one of the world's highest brick towers / buildings.

The temples of the Angkor area number over one thousand, ranging in scale from nondescript piles of brick rubble scattered through rice fields to the magnificent Angkor Wat, said to be the world's largest single religious monument.

It was at one time the world's largest producer of refractory material ( silica brick ), with three plants-General Refractories, United States Refractories and Harbison Walker.

The city is of national importance because of its predominantly Gothic architecture within the historic city centre, especially Trausnitz Castle and the Church of Saint Martin featuring the world's tallest brick tower.

The world's tallest brick tower stands in this province.

All the nearby buildings seem to be facing away, making the plaza's of concrete and brick feel like the world's largest back alley.

Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse, ( Stanley Dock, Liverpool, England ) is a grade II listed building and is the world's largest brick warehouse.

Some of Reichenbach's most remarkable structures date from this era, including its Rathaus ( 1837 – 1839 ), the railway station ( 1846 ), and world's largest brick bridge, the Göltzsch Viaduct ( 1846 – 1851 ).

* Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse, in Liverpool ; the world's largest brick warehouse

Although it was the world's tallest structure when completed in 1889, the Eiffel Tower has since lost its standing both as the tallest lattice tower and as the tallest structure in France.

* 1094 – The Chinese mechanical engineer and astronomer Su Song incorporates an escapement mechanism and the world's first known chain drive to operate the armillary sphere, the astronomical clock, and the striking clock jacks of his clock tower in Kaifeng.

Its tower hosts the world's first porcelain carillon, manufactured in 1929 on the occasion of the town's 1000-years-jubilee.

Two German churches have challenged the tower's status as the world's most lop-sided building: the 15th-century square Leaning Tower of Suurhusen and the 14th century bell tower in the town of Bad Frankenhausen.

For high-fidelity flight simulation, the division operates the world's largest flight simulator ( the Vertical Motion Simulator ), a Level-D 747-400 simulator, and a panoramic air traffic control tower simulator.

At Wheeling, the National Road crossed the Ohio River on the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, designed by Charles Ellet Jr. and completed in 1849, then the world's longest bridge span at from tower to tower.

In addition, Su Song's clock tower featured the world's first endless power-transmitting chain drive, an essential mechanical device found in many practical uses throughout the ages, such as the bicycle.

The world's first radio receiver of engineer Alexander Popov and the world's first hyperboloid tower and lattice shells-coverings of engineer Vladimir Shukhov were demonstrated at the All-Russia industrial and art exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod in 1896.

Cusseta briefly prided itself on having the world's tallest man-made structure, the WTVM / WRBL-TV & WVRK-FM Tower, a guyed transmission tower built in 1962 about one mile from the city.

These include the Gerbrandy Tower, a structure that could be considered the tallest tower in Western Europe and during Christmas time the world's largest Christmas tree.

The tower is generally regarded as the world's largest eight ball.

Washington Heights seen from the west tower of the George Washington Bridge, the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge.

In December 2005, a survey of the world's largest firms of architects published in 2006 BD World Architecture 200 voted the tower as the most admired new building in the world.

The world's first Ferris Wheel needed enough steel to assemble a 140-ft tower to support an all-steel wheel, altogether making a 264-ft structure.

In 2011, he climbed the world's tallest building, the 830-meter Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai.

Michigan State has the largest hall ; Ohio possesses four residential greens built into the campus ; Wisconsin-Milwaukee has four notable tower constructions to house students ; Texas maintains a residence hall with several high-tech amenities ; Copenhagen has one of the world's oldest residence halls ; and London possesses one of the largest metropolitan living quarters for university students.

Herne Bay's seafront is home to the world's first freestanding purpose-built clock tower, built in 1837 ; until 1978, the town had the second-longest pier in the United Kingdom.

Additionally, the world's longest laundry chute runs down the full length of the tower to the basement, and incorporates buffers to slow down the laundry during its descent.

The park features an aquarium, a planetarium, a children's zoo, an art museum, an observation tower ( Näsinneula ), an amusement park, and the world's northernmost dolphinarium.

This airport consists of 4 passenger terminals ( only three of which are in use ) with eight aero-bridges each, a mosque, covered and uncovered parking for 11, 600 vehicles, a Royal Terminal ( for VIP's and Saudi Royal family use ), a central control tower ( one of the world's tallest ), and two parallel runways, which are each long.