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North Korea has the highest abandoned hotel in the world. Eiffel Loses High!

North Korea has the highest abandoned hotel in the world. Eiffel Loses High!  Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. Photo: (AFP)  -  North Korea has a 330 meter high building called the Ryugyong Hotel in the center of the capital city of Pyongyang which was built in 1987. Unfortunately, until 2024, the Ryugyong Hotel has never been occupied by a single guest.  The Ryugyong Hotel is taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Therefore, the Ryugyong Hotel is called the tallest uninhabited building in the world.  This building consists of three wings, each side has a slope of around 75 degrees and there is a circle on top. In this building there are 3,000 rooms spread over 105 floors. The circle at the end is used as a rotating dining area in which 5 restaurants will operate.  "It was built like this because the top level had to be lighter," said an architect who lives in Singapore and has extensively researched Pyongyang urbanism, Calvin Chua, as quoted by CNN, Friday (