the cn stands for canadian national in the cn tower.
the cn stands for canadian national in the cn tower.
what does the cn stand for in the cn tower?
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the cn tower () is a concrete communications and observation tower located in downtown toronto, ontario, canada. built on the former railway lands, it was completed in 1976. its name "cn" originally referred to canadian national, the railway company that built the tower. following the railway's decision to divest non-core freight railway assets prior to the company's privatization in 1995, it transferred the tower to the canada lands company, a federal crown corporation responsible for real estate development.
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"guinness world records" has called the cn tower "the world's tallest self-supporting tower" and "the world's tallest free-standing tower". although guinness did list this description of the cn tower under the heading "tallest building" at least once, it has also listed it under "tallest tower", omitting it from its list of "tallest buildings." in 1996, guinness changed the tower's classification to "world's tallest building and freestanding structure". emporis and the council on tall buildings and urban habitat both listed the cn tower as the world's tallest free-standing structure on land, and specifically state that the cn tower is not a true building, thereby awarding the title of world's tallest building to taipei 101, which is shorter than the cn tower. the issue of what was tallest became moot when burj khalifa, then under construction, exceeded the height of the cn tower in 2007 (see below).
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