In Revelation 21:16 do the walls of the new Jerusalem rise 12,000 furlongs?

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Revelation describes the height of the new Jerusalem to be equal to its base, which is 12,000 furlongs. Generally speaking one does not usually refer to the “height” of a city. I’m not sure what that means. I mean, as a type of the body of Christ I know it spans heaven and earth but in John’s figure does it mean that its walls ascend that high?

[Rev 21:16 KJV] (16) And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.