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Which City Has The Most Skyscrapers (& Most Impressive Skyline)?

interactive city guideSkyscrapers are defined as tall and continuously habitable buildings with multiple floors (sorry not you CN Tower in Canada). Just how big a building needs to be before it’s deemed to be scrapping the sky is not universally agreed on. Historically one would have used it to refer to buildings with between 10 and 20 stories in the 1880s – but these would hardly be enough to impress anyone today.Ten-to-20 stories is considered high-rise for sure, but is not becoming of the more lofty term “skyscraper.” Generally, sources define a skyscraper as being at least 100 meters or 150 meters (492 feet) high. Here we will go by the higher measure. Today many cities around the world have veritable forests of skyscrapers.

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