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Top 10 tallest statues in the world

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Top 10 tallest statues in the world

When it was completed in 1991, it briefly became the tallest statue in the world—a title it stole from another Kannon statue in Hokkaido that had held the record just two years earlier.

Built in 1989 in Hokkaido, this Kannon statue briefly held the world record before Sendai's version overtook it two years later.

Closing out the list is a bronze Shakyamuni Buddha in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, standing on a 29-foot lotus pedestal.

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