SortStack #1784 — 2031-04-28

By size · Order from shortest to longest.

1. A tournament chess pawn 3.7 cm

   Regulation sets fix the pawn's height relative to the squares so pieces never crowd the board.

2. A small recreational sailboat 9.4 m

   Modern sails work like vertical wings, generating lift that lets boats sail faster than the wind itself.

3. Merdeka 118, Kuala Lumpur 679 m

   The second-tallest building on Earth, its faceted glass facade echoes patterns from traditional Malaysian crafts.

4. New Zealand's South Island (length) 840 km

   It is home to fewer than two million people but more than ten times as many sheep.

5. The Mississippi River (length) 3.7K km

   A raindrop falling at its source takes about 90 days to drift all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico.

6. The Great Wall of China (total length) 21.2K km

   Contrary to the popular myth, it cannot actually be seen from the Moon with the naked eye.

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