SortStack #2939 — 2034-06-26

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 concert grand piano 2.7 m

   A grand piano's strings pull with a combined tension of around 20 tonnes, held by a single cast-iron frame.

3. A reticulated python 6.6 m

   The world's longest snake, it kills by constriction, tightening with every breath its prey exhales.

4. The Burj Khalifa, Dubai 828 m

   It is so tall that people on the ground floor can watch the sunset, then ride up and watch it set a second time.

5. Lake Geneva (length) 73 km

   Shared by Switzerland and France, its waters take over a decade to fully cycle through and renew.

6. 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.

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