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How big is Angel Falls?
979 m
Angel Falls measures 979 m. That's about 2.97 Eiffel Towers lined up end to end.
By the numbers
- That's 979 meters, or about 3,212 feet.
- It's about 576 times taller than an average adult (1.7 m).
- Roughly 9.32 soccer fields could line up across it.
- At a normal walking pace you'd cross it in about 699 seconds.
- Out of all 1,014 things in this collection, it ranks #123 by size.
Size comparison
How Angel Falls stacks up against things of a similar size. Tap any bar to explore it.
freight train
2 km
Grand Canyon (depth)
1.857 km
Brooklyn Bridge
1.825 km
Sydney Harbour Bridge
1.149 km
Angel Falls
979 m
Burj Khalifa
828 m
Merdeka 118
679 m
Tokyo Skytree
634 m
Shanghai Tower
632 m
Bars use a logarithmic scale so everything fits — real differences are even more extreme!
Fun fact
Standing beside it, an average person (1.7 m tall) would reach only about 0.174% of its height.
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