SortStack #2463 — 2033-03-07
By size · Order from shortest to longest.
- An acoustic guitar 99 cm
The guitar's hollow body acts as an amplifier, resonating the strings' vibration into the air around it.
- A great white shark 5.2 m
Great whites can detect a single drop of blood diluted in 100 litres of water from hundreds of metres away.
- Merdeka 118, Kuala Lumpur 679 m
The second-tallest building on Earth, its faceted glass facade echoes patterns from traditional Malaysian crafts.
- Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 5.9 km
You can walk from tropical jungle to arctic glaciers on its slopes, passing through five climate zones in days.
- The island of Manhattan (length) 21.5 km
The entire island was famously bought from Native inhabitants in 1626 for goods worth a tiny sum.
- Chile (length) 4.4K km
So long and thin it spans 38 degrees of latitude, from the driest desert on Earth to icy glaciers in the south.