This is a list of skyscrapers in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, the American continent, and the Western and Southern Hemispheres. Within the city, there are nearly ten thousand tall buildings, of which 152 are buildings above 100 metres and 18 are skyscrapers above 150 metres. It is the fourth city with the largest number of buildings and one of the cities with the most skyscrapers in the world. During the 20th century, São Paulo played a prominent role in the country's civil construction, with many of its new buildings having ranked first among the tallest skyscrapers in the country and Latin America, and represented a milestone in modern Brazilian architecture, with many of its buildings protected by the Historical Heritage and listed by CONPRESP due to their "importance, historical, social and urbanistic value".