World's Tallest Towers This table provides information about the
tallest towers in the world. A tower differs from a building in
that the latter has floors, and is designed for residential,
business, or manufacturing use. The structures listed here are
principally telecommunications towers, and while they may have
observation decks or restaurants, they do not have floors all
the way up. NOTES: This list includes only towers.1 For
buildings, see World's Tallest Buildings. Height is from top to
bottom, antennas included. Towers and buildings are freestanding
structures; this list does not include masts supported by guy
wires. The tallest mast currently standing is the KVLY-TV Mast
in North Dakota, built in 1963; it is 629 m (2,063 ft) tall. The
tallest mast of all time was the Warszawa Radio Mast near
Konstantynów, Poland, built in 1974; it was 646 m (2,120 ft)
tall before collapsing during renovation work in 1991. (Note
that the name of a building or mast may include the word
“tower,” but that does not affect