The original: Paris, 330 m
Built for the 1889 Exposition Universelle marking the centenary of the French Revolution, the Eiffel Tower was designed by engineers Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, with architect Stephen Sauvestre, at Gustave Eiffel’s company.
It was assembled from around 18,000 wrought-iron pieces and 2.5 million rivets in just over two years.
At 300 m it was the tallest man-made structure on Earth until the Chrysler Building overtook it in 1930; with its current antennas it stands 330 m.
It was only licensed to stand for 20 years and was due to be dismantled in 1909, but its value as a radio-telegraphy mast saved it.
It is repainted roughly every seven years, grows a few centimetres in summer heat, and draws around 6-7 million visitors a year, making it the world’s most-visited paid monument – and, as this map shows, the most copied.
Only replicas of at least 10 m are shown (5 m for those in France). Official site: toureiffel.paris.
North America
- Las Vegas, Nevada – 164 m. The half-scale tower at the Paris Las Vegas casino, completed in 1999 from 5,000 tons of steel. It was originally planned at full size until the nearby airport objected. Its legs come straight down through the casino floor, and there is a viewing deck 46 storeys up. Official site
- Mason, Ohio – 101 m. A one-third-scale observation tower on International Street at Kings Island, opened with the park in 1972 and built by Waagner-Biro for Intamin. The park itself quotes 96 m (314 ft). Official site
- Doswell, Virginia – 101 m. Kings Dominion’s near-identical twin of the Kings Island tower, one of the park’s original attractions when it opened in 1975. Official site
- Fayetteville, North Carolina – 45 m. Built around 1971 as a landmark for the Bordeaux shopping centre, now the Bordeaux Center medical and professional complex next to Cape Fear Valley Hospital. Sources disagree on its height – the centre itself calls it a one-tenth replica. Official site
- Bay Lake, Florida – 23 m. The tower behind the France pavilion in Epcot’s World Showcase at Walt Disney World, opened in October 1982. It uses forced perspective so it looks far taller from across the lagoon. Official site
- Paris, Tennessee – 18 m. A 1:20-scale tower built in 1990 by Christian Brothers University engineering students in Memphis, donated to Paris and dedicated in 1993 in what is now Eiffel Tower Park. It was later rebuilt in steel after the original timber structure deteriorated. Official site
- Paris, Texas – 20 m. Built in 1993 by Boilermakers Local 902 outside the Love Civic Center. When Tennessee’s turned out slightly taller, Texas added a giant red cowboy hat in 1998 to win the height contest. Official site
- Terrebonne, Quebec – 10 m. Stands on private land beside Autoroute 640 as a sign for Solarium International, a sunroom manufacturer.
- Gómez Palacio, Mexico – 58 m. A 140-ton replica donated by the French community of the Comarca Lagunera and inaugurated in 2007 in a city plaza. The largest Eiffel replica in Latin America.
South America
- Sabaneta, Colombia – 42 m. The centrepiece of París Parque Residencial, a Paris-themed housing development in the Medellín metropolitan area. Construction began in 2019 and the tower was completed in 2023.
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 35 m. An all-steel replica inaugurated in 2002 in the Parisian-themed plaza of Barra World Shopping & Park in Recreio dos Bandeirantes, built by the centre’s owner José Koury. Official site
- Umuarama, Brazil – 32 m. An exact 1:10 replica of 2,000 pieces built by local businessman Edson Ferrarin on his own land beside the PR-323 highway, inaugurated in 2008. It has 160 internal steps and free entry.
- São Paulo, Brazil – 15 m. A decorative replica in the city; details are hard to pin down and it may refer to the rooftop tower at the JK Iguatemi mall.
- Bauru, Brazil – 10 m. A stylised replica in Praça Nove de Julho, erected in 1978 by the Instituição Toledo de Ensino to mark the 25th anniversary of its law faculty, chosen for the French Revolution’s ideals.
Europe
- Slobozia, Romania – 54 m. Built in 1996 by businessman Ilie Alexandru as part of his private Hermes holiday park, which also had a replica of the Southfork ranch from Dallas. Alexandru was arrested the following year and the tower now stands abandoned on the Romanian plain.
- Parizh, Russia – 50 m. The village in Chelyabinsk Oblast is named after the 1814 Battle of Paris in which local Nagaybak Cossacks fought. The tower was erected in 2005 by a mobile-phone company and doubles as a working cell mast.
- Cagnano, Italy – 38 m. “La Torre Eiffel del Veneto” in Pojana Maggiore near Vicenza, built in 1999 by brothers Lino and Ivo Fraron of the sheet-metal firm Laserjet as a laser-cutting showpiece for a Paris trade fair, then re-erected in the company yard.
- Kharkiv, Ukraine – 35 m. Opened in 2012 beside the French Boulevard shopping centre in the Saltivka district, made from around 35 tons of steel.
- Varna, Bulgaria – 32 m. A 1:10 replica built in 2007 by the Golden Sands resort company as a tourist attraction in the Golden Sands resort north of Varna.
- Paryż, Poland – 30 m. Paryż is the local name for part of the Niedobczyce district of Rybnik, Silesia. The replica on the Niedobczyce-Paryż roundabout was funded through the city’s participatory budget and installed in 2022; the city gives its height as 15 m. Official site
- Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain – 30 m. A 1:10 replica in Parque Europa, a municipal park of scale European monuments near Madrid that opened in 2010. Official site
- Filiatra, Greece – 26 m. At the entrance to the town in Messinia, donated in 1960 by Greek-American doctor and benefactor Harry Fournier (Charalambos Fournarakis), who also gave the town a globe monument. Reconstructed in 2007.
- Kyiv, Ukraine – 16 m. A 1:20 replica installed in December 2015 by developer Kyivmiskbud in the courtyard of the French Quarter residential complex.
- Krasnoyarsk, Russia – 15 m. Built in 2007 by the owners of the adjacent, now closed, Bonjour restaurant on Vesny Street.
- Brussels, Belgium – 13 m. One of the largest models in Mini-Europe, the 1:25-scale miniature park at Bruparck that opened in 1989. Official site
- Klagenfurt, Austria – 12 m. The 1:25 model at Minimundus dates from 1967 and was the park’s tallest exhibit until 1998. Official site
- Kabardinka, Russia – 12 m. On the seafront promenade of this Black Sea resort near Gelendzhik, installed in 2014 with fountains and night lighting.
- Berlin, Germany – 10 m. The “Weddinger Eiffelturm” at the Centre Français de Berlin was built in 1994 to mark the departure of the French garrison. Dismantled as unsafe in 2023, it was rebuilt by crowdfunding and reinaugurated in November 2024; the centre gives its height as 13 m. Official site
France
- “Eiffela” (travelling) – 32 m. A demountable 23-ton replica of 3,131 pieces, conceived by event promoter Philippe Maindron and fabricated in the Vendée in 2016. It is hired out for events and in 2023 was displayed at the foot of the real tower on the Champ-de-Mars. Official site
- Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines – 30 m (under construction). A 1:10, 50-ton replica built over about eight years by local resident Jean-Claude Fassler in this Alsatian valley town. Official site
- Bussières-lès-Belmont – approx. 30 m. A tower made of wicker on the village square, showcasing this Haute-Marne village’s willow-growing and basketry heritage.
- Capdenac-Gare – 28 m. A 1:15 iron tower built between 2017 and 2019 by carpenter Alain Lacombe, donated to the commune in 2023 and erected in the Jardin de Fer. Official site
- Soing – 16 m. Built by village volunteers in Haute-Saône in 1992 for the Eurosaône festival, and restored about 20 years later.
- Élancourt – 10 m. The 3.2-ton model at France Miniature, the 1:30-scale park of French landmarks near Versailles that opened in 1991. Official site
- Sains-en-Gohelle – 9 m. Reputedly the oldest replica of all: erected in 1889 by café owners Émile and Augustine Dupuich in honour of the Exposition Universelle, originally as the sign of their “Tour Eiffel” inn. It now stands on a roundabout in this Pas-de-Calais village.
- Apach – 9 m. On the French side of the German border at Apach-Perl in Moselle, donated by a German entrepreneur and in place since 2009.
- Thiéblemont-Farémont. A small replica in this Marne village; no further details could be verified.
- Buhl – 6 m. One of several tributes in this Alsatian village to Maurice Koechlin, the tower’s structural designer, who was born here. It stands on a roundabout at the village entrance and has been vandalised twice.
Middle East and Central Asia
- Lahore, Pakistan – 80 m. A roughly quarter-scale tower built around 2014 as the landmark of the Bahria Town Lahore gated housing development, alongside copies of other world monuments. Official site
- Karachi, Pakistan – 80 m. Bahria Town Karachi’s version stands on a hill in Precinct 37 near the Grand Jamia Mosque, completed around 2019. Sources disagree widely on its height. Official site
- Netivot, Israel – 32 m. Manufactured in China and completed in 2020 at the centre of the Paris Center shopping complex, built by developer Oded Shriki in a town with a large French-Jewish community.
- Malayer, Iran – 32 m. Part of the Malayer Mini World complex, a park of 138 world landmarks at 1:10 scale under construction on the hills above the city since 2010.
- Kish Island, Iran – 30 m. A 35-ton steel 1:10 replica with musical lighting next to the Pardis 1 shopping centre, inaugurated in September 2018.
- Samarkand, Uzbekistan – 30 m. Shown on the map but no details could be verified.
- Almaty, Kazakhstan – 20 m. Stands in front of the “French House” fashion store on Nazarbayev Avenue in the city centre.
- Kosh-Döbö, Kyrgyzstan – 12 m. A gift to this village in Jalal-Abad region, financed and built by 38 classmates from the local school’s class of 1997.
East and South Asia
- Macau – 150 m. The half-scale tower at The Parisian Macao casino resort on the Cotai Strip, opened by Sands China in September 2016, with lifts to an observation deck. The tallest replica anywhere; the resort quotes 160 m. Official site
- Hangzhou, China – 108 m. The centrepiece of Tianducheng, a housing estate built in 2007 as a copy of Paris, complete with a Champ-de-Mars lawn and Haussmann-style apartment blocks.
- Shenzhen, China – 108 m. The roughly one-third-scale tower at Window of the World, the theme park of world landmarks in Nanshan that opened in 1994. Official site
- Shenyang, China – 30 m. A gold-coloured replica in the capital of Liaoning province, photographed by news agencies in 2015.
- Kolkata, India – 30 m. The map places it near Calcutta; the city’s gold-coloured replica, roughly 30 tons of steel and used as an observation tower, stands in Nicco Park in Salt Lake. Official site
- Kota, India – 12 m. In Seven Wonders Park on the banks of Kishore Sagar lake, commissioned by the Urban Improvement Trust and opened in December 2013.
- Chandigarh, India – 12 m. In Leisure Valley, Sector 10, opposite the Government Museum and Art Gallery, built in the early 2010s.
- Tochigi, Japan – 12 m. The 1:25 model at Tobu World Square in Kinugawa Onsen, Nikko, registered in 1991. Official site
- Đức Hòa, Vietnam – 11 m. A 1:30 model in the “7 Wonders of the World” park inside the Cát Tường Phú Sinh residential development in Long An province, opened in 2017.
- Tangerang, Indonesia – 12 m. A gold replica at Ecofarm Kampung Baru in Karawaci, built by the city government in 2021. Local press gives its height as nearer 7 m.
Africa and Oceania
- Hartbeespoort, South Africa – 12 m. Outside French Toast Koffie Kafee, a Paris-themed café by the Hartbeespoort Aquarium, originally built as a set for the Afrikaans film French Toast.
- Brisbane, Australia – 12 m. A 1:25 replica on the roof of the Savoir Faire precinct on Park Road, Milton, above La Dolce Vita restaurant. Built in 1988 to mark Expo ’88 and relit with LEDs in 2013. Official site
Which have these have you visited?
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