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The Cities That Graze the Skies

Hong Kong is the city with the most skyscrapers measuring over 150 meters tall in the world, according to from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. The city's first two serious high-rises (Hopewell Centre and Sun Hung Kai Centre) - each at over 200 meters tall - were built in the early 1980s, followed by a sea of 556 additional skyscrapers, each above the 150 meter mark, in the years since.

In second and third place, with 414 and 318 buildings over 150 meters high, respectively, are the Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen and the economic capital of the United States, New York City. Dubai comes fourth in this ranking, with a total of 263 buildings of this scale. The city is home to the tallest skyscraper in the world, the Burj Khalifa, which measures some 828 meters.

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This chart shows the cities with the most buildings over 150 meters tall.

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