Brobdingnag Brobdingnag Brobdingnag is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels" occupied by giants. Lemuel Gulliver visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course and he is separated from a party exploring the unknown land. In the second preface to the book, Gulliver laments that this is a misspelling introduced by the publisher and the land is actually called Brobdingrag. The adjective "Brobdingnagian" has come to describe anything of colossal size. Swift describes the location of Brobdingnag, and its geography, in the text of Part II of "Gullivers Travels", and
Gulliver (building) eponymous hero of Jonathan Swifts novel Gulliver's Travels. Gulliver (building) The Multifunctional Complex Gulliver () is a 35-story mixed-use building in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is located at the very center of the city near Palats Sportu metro station (municipal address: 1, Sportyvna Sq). It is the second highest building and the highest office building in the country. The complex consists of a 35 stories high office building and a adjoining 10 to 16 stories high shopping mall with movie theaters, restaurants and other business and entertainment spots. Originally the building was to be called "Continental", but in