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Here is a list of the longest single segment buildings (excluding those not intended for human occupancy) in the world, and broken down by continent (which are not included in the world section).

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World

No. Building Year built Length Country
1. Great Wall 200BC-17th century 8,851.8 km China
2. Klystron gallery above the Stanford Linear Accelerator 1962-1966 3000 m USA
3. Modlin Fortress Barracks 1832-1862 2250 m Poland
4. Kansai International Airport airport terminal 1991-1994 1700 m Japan

Europe

No. Building Year built Length Country / City
1. Modlin Fortress Barracks 1832-1862 2250 m Poland
2. "Barajas T4 terminal" - Airport Terminal 2006 1175 m Spain / Madrid
3. "Karl-Marx-Hof" - Residential Building 1927-1930 1100 m Austria / Vienna
4. "Le Lignon" - Residential Building 1963-1971 1060 m Switzerland / Geneva
5. "Corviale" - Residential Building 1972-1982 1000 m Italy / Rome
6. Falowiec - Apartment Building (Satellite photo) 1970 - 1973 860 m Poland / Gdansk
7. "Chinese wall" (Great Wall of China) - Apartment Building (48°25′03″N 35°03′40″E / 48.417367°N 35.061021°E / 48.417367; 35.061021 Satellite photo[1]) 1971 - 1974 ~830 m Ukraine / Dnipropetrovsk
8. German Airforce Base Fürstenfeldbruck "Kilometergebäude" (48°11′50″N 11°16′32″E / 48.197118°N 11.275449°E / 48.197118; 11.275449 Satellite photo[2]) 820 m Fürstenfeldbruck / Germany
9. Karlsborg Fortress 1819-1870 678 m Sweden

Note. The Kraft durch Freude seaside resort Prora consists of eight separate buildings, each measuring ~486 m [1].

North America

Asia

No. Building Year built Length Country
1. Great Wall 200BC-17th century 8,851.8 km China
2. Kansai International Airport airport terminal 1991-1994 1700 m Japan
? Jongmyo 1394 ~150 m South Korea

Africa

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