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How tall is Grand Canyon?

Grand Canyon silhouette
1.86 kmdepth

The Grand Canyon is up to 1,857 m deep.

Enter your height to compare yourself with Grand Canyon.

  • 0.21× a mount everest (8.85 km)
  • 5.63× the eiffel tower (330 m)
  • 17.7× the football pitch (105 m)
  • 155× the city bus (12 m)

How to picture 1.86 km

Start from something you can see right now. Grand Canyon is about 0.21× mount everest. That is exactly the estimate the board asks you to draw: pick a reference, decide the ratio, resize the silhouette.

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