List of supertall skyscrapers

The first supertall skyscraper to be completed was the Chrysler Building in New York City in 1930, which was 319 meters (1,047 feet) tall.

Supertalls remained the purview of New York City and Chicago until the completion of the JPMorgan Chase Tower in Houston.

In 2018, two more US cities gained their first supertall buildings: the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, and the Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia.

The Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong was the first supertall skyscraper to be built outside of the United States in 1990.

Other cities in China that have built multiple supertall buildings since 2000 include Guiyang, Nanjing, Nanning, Tianjin, and Wuhan.

Baiyoke Tower II in Bangkok, Thailand became the first supertall building in Southeast Asia when it was completed in 1997.

Saudi Arabia became the next country in the Middle East with a supertall building with the construction of the Kingdom Centre in 2002.

With the exception of The Shard in London, United Kingdom and Varso Tower in Poland, the remainder are in Russia–six in Moscow and one, the Lakhta Centre, in Saint Petersburg.

Mexico is the only country besides the United States to have a supertall building in North America – T.Op Torre 1 in Monterrey, which was built in 2020.

While Canada has no completed supertall buildings, it has three under construction – The One, Skytower at Pinnacle One Younge, and Concord Sky, all of which are in Toronto.

South America's sole supertall building is Gran Torre Costanera in Santiago, Chile.

Similarly, Africa has only one supertall building, the Iconic Tower, located in Egypt's New Administrative Capital.