The Gotthard Base Tunnel is fourteen miles longer and runs farther to the east, linking Zurich to Milan.
Driving Italy's sinuous Amalfi Coast road is marvelously scenic and many miles longer, but the Stelvio, with its high altitude, is quite literally breathtaking.
It is five times as wide as the Hoover Dam, and the reservoir it has created stretches for about 400 miles, longer than Lake Superior.
Still, Dalton's time was even more impressive because the course was about 1,240 miles longer than that of the Jules Verne.
To go down between the mountain ranges, I opted for the Axel Heiberg glacier, a route about 124 miles longer, than the heavily crevassed Baerdmore glacier, but safer.
His finish, however, more than four hours later, was so strong one wondered if he might have won if the race had been twenty miles longer.
It was good to see your extensive coverage of the new 35-mile Gotthard Base tunnel (Five miles longer than the Channel tunnel, Switzerland's transalpine record breaker, 1 June).
The 122-millimeter Katyushas, based on a Russian design, are manufactured in many countries and have a range of at least 10 miles, longer than the relatively crude Qassams.
The Mississippi is a thousand miles longer and, in many places, more than a mile wider, and it carries the equivalent of the Colorado's entire annual flow every couple of weeks.
The beach ends in an obstacle course of dark rock outcroppings, but a brief path leads between low hills to another crescent beach more sweeping than the principal one, three miles longer and utterly deserted.
For many years Birmingham's number 11 circular service had the distinction of being the longest urban bus route in Europe, until it was beaten by one in Coventry that is six miles longer.
