How Wide Is Son Doong Cave? 150 m (492 ft) Compared

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Son Doong Cave (150 m) drawn to scale beside the Statue of Liberty (93 m) and the Eiffel Tower (330 m) — Drawn to scale, from left to right: Statue of Liberty (93 m), Son Doong Cave (150 m) and Eiffel Tower (330 m).

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How big is that, really?

About 1.4× the length of a football (soccer) pitch
About 1.6× the height of the Statue of Liberty
About 45% of the height of the Eiffel Tower
About 3× the length of an Olympic swimming pool
About 18% of the height of the Burj Khalifa

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Facts about Son Doong Cave

Son Doong in Vietnam contains passages so large that a 40-story skyscraper could fit inside its biggest chamber.

Source: Guinness World Records — Largest Cave Passage; Oxalis Adventure — Son Doong Cave

Nature

Name	Size	Compared with Son Doong Cave
Dettifoss	100 m (328 ft)	0.67×
Kalandula Falls	105 m (344 ft)	0.7×
Grand Prismatic Spring	110 m (361 ft)	0.73×
Dune du Pilat	110 m (361 ft)	0.73×
Hyperion	116 m (380 ft)	0.77×
Waimoku Falls	122 m (400 ft)	0.81×
Rhine Falls	150 m (492 ft)	same size
Son Doong Cave	150 m (492 ft)	this page
Detian Falls	200 m (656 ft)	1.3×
Kaieteur Falls	226 m (741 ft)	1.5×

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