In which country is the world's largest-diameter individual radio telescope located?

The RATAN-600 (an acronym for the "Academy of Sciences Radio Telescope - 600") is a radio telescope in Russia. It comprises a 576 m diameter circle of rectangular radio reflectors and a set of secondary reflectors and receivers, based at an altitude of 970 m. Each of the 895 2×7.4 m reflectors can be angled to reflect incoming radio waves towards a central conical secondary mirror or to one of five parabolic cylinders.

Each secondary reflector is combined with an instrumentation cabin containing various receivers and instruments. The overall effect is that of a partially steerable antenna with a maximum resolving power of a nearly 600 m diameter dish, when using the central conical receiver, making it the world's largest-diameter individual radio telescope.

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John Moore

China China has finished building the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-aperture telescope.6 Jul 2016

Vimala Padmaraj

I REALLY WONDER WHY THERE IS SUCH SHABBY VERIFICATION OF FACTS. CHINA IS THE CORRECT ANSWER.

Christopher Skinner

The answer IS wrong!

Rod Peel

The Russian Radio telescope is NOT a single aperture telescope, the Chinese one is albeit of a 500m aperture.

dowill

This question needs to be date stamped, there 2 larger radio telescopes than Russia.

Pat Askew

China has the largest in the world - built in 2016!

spower

I agree with the date stamp issues.

John McLardie

For the question as asked the given answer - Russia - is incorrect; since the telescope is not 'individual'. The question needs to be amended, or the answer changed to China.