This document lists the top 10 tallest statues in the world and provides brief descriptions of each, including their location, height, and key details. The tallest is the Spring Temple Buddha in China standing at 420 feet tall. It is coated in bronze and weighs over 1000 tons. The Dai Kannon statue in Hokkaido, Japan is the 10th tallest at 289 feet, making it taller than the Statue of Liberty. The document provides the heights and locations of the other statues, and notes construction details and purposes for some of the structures.

1. 10. Dai Kannon –
Hokkaido, Japan;
Height – 289 ft (88 m)
Taller than The Statue of
Liberty, this statue is
located on Hokkaido, the
second largest island in
Japan

2. 9. Great Buddha of Thailand – Ang Tong, Thailand;
302 ft (92 m)
This statue is one of the more massive statues in
terms of overall size.

3. 8. Peter the Great
Statue – Moscow,
Russia; 315 ft (96m)
This statue displays Peter
the Great, the Russian Tsar
from the late 1600’s and it
was built in 1997,

4. 7. Qianshou Qianyan
Guanyin – Weishan,
China; 325 ft (99m)
Made of Gilded bronze, it’s
also known as “Thousand
Eyes and Hands”

5. 6. Sendai
Daikannon –
Sendai, Japan; 330
ft (100,6m)
Built in 1991, an elevator
can bring tourists to the
top, showing a beautiful
view of the Japanese
countryside

6. 5. Emperors Yan and Huang – Henan, China; 348 ft
(106)
It’s built into a mountain and it took over 20 years of work and was
finished in 2007. It displays two ancient Chinese emperors

7. 4. Nanshan Haishang Guanyin – Hainan, China; 354
ft (107,9m)
It was completed by a team of monks in 2005

8. 3. Ushiku Daibutsu –
Ushsiku, Japan; 360
ft (109,7)
Inside the statue is a four story
museum dedicated to Shinran,
founder of the “True Pure Land
School” of Buddhism

9. 2. Laykyun Setkyar – Monywa,
Myanmar; 381 ft (116m)
Taking twelve years to complete, this statue was

10. 1. Spring Temple Buddha
– Henan, China; 420 ft
(128m)
Here it is, the largest statue in the Coated in a bronze cast, The
Spring Temple Buddha
weighs over 1000 tons!
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