Human-defined Scales and Structures
- 18 km — cruising altitude of Concorde
- 27 km — circumference of the Large Hadron Collider, as of May 2010 the largest and highest energy particle accelerator
- 30 km — length of the longest man made dike enclosed by water on two sides, the Afsluitdijk.
- 31.3 km — highest parachute jump (Joseph Kittinger)
- 34.668 km — highest manned balloon flight (Malcolm D. Ross and Victor E. Prather on May 4, 1961)
- 38.422 km — length of the Second Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, US
- 39 km — undersea portion of the Channel tunnel
- 53.9 km — length of the Seikan Tunnel, as of October 2009, the longest rail tunnel in the world.
- 77.1 km — total length of the Panama Canal
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