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Baku TV Tower

Baku, Azerbaijan

The 50th tallest tower in the world

310 m · 1,017 ft

The Baku TV Tower (Azerbaijani: Televiziya Qülləsi), built in 1996, is a free standing concrete telecommunications tower in Baku, Azerbaijan. With a height of 310 metres (1017 ft or 480 meters from Caspian sea level), it is the second tallest structure in Azerbaijan after the chimneys of Azerbaijan Thermal Power Plant and the tallest reinforced concrete building in Caucasus. The tower has become one of the most prominent landmarks of Baku, often in the establishing shot of films set in the city.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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