TV Tower vs Canton Tower

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Radio masts and towers are, typically structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting. There are two kinds: structures that are guyed and self-supporting. They are among the tallest human-made structures.

Masts are often named after the broadcasting organizations that currently use them or initially built them. In the event of a mast radiator or radiating tower, tower or the whole mast is the transmitting antenna.

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The Canton Tower (Chinese: ???), officially Guangzhou TV Astronomical and Sightseeing Tower (Chinese: ???????????), is a 604-meter (1,982 feet )-tall multipurpose monitoring tower in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou (alternatively romanized as Canton). The tower was topped out in 2009 and it became operational on 29 September 2010 for the 2010 Asian Games. The tower briefly held the title of tallest tower in the world, replacing the CN Tower, before being surpassed by the Tokyo Skytree. It was the tallest structure in China prior to the topping out of the Shanghai Tower on 3 August 2013, and is now the second tallest tower and the fourth-tallest freestanding structure in the world.

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