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The CN Tower ( French : Tour CN) is a 553.3 m-high (1,815.3 ft) concrete communications and observation tower in downtown Toronto , Ontario , Canada. Built on the former Railway Lands , it was completed in 1976, and held the record for the world's tallest free-standing structure for 32 years from 1975–2007 and was the world's tallest tower until 2009 being overtaken by Burj Khalifa and Canton Tower , respectively. It is now the third tallest tower in the world and remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere , a signature icon of Toronto's skyline, attracting more than two million international visitors annually. Its name "CN" originally referred to Canadian National , the railway company that built the tower. Following the railway's decision to divest non-core freight railway assets prior to the company's privatization in 1995, it transferred the tower to the Canada Lands Company , a federal Crown corporation respons...