When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of tallest statues - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_statues

    This list of tallest statues includes completed statues that are at least 50 m (160 ft) tall. The height values in this list are measured to the highest part of the human (or animal) figure, but exclude the height of any pedestal (plinth), or other base platform as well as any mast, spire, or other structure that extends higher than the tallest figure in the monument.

  3. Leshan Giant Buddha - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leshan_Giant_Buddha

    The Leshan Giant Buddha (Chinese: 樂山大佛) is a 71-meter (233 ft) tall stone statue, built between 713 and 803 (during the Tang dynasty).It is carved out of a cliff face of Cretaceous red bed sandstones that lies at the confluence of the Min River and Dadu River in the southern part of Sichuan Province in China, near the city of Leshan. [1]

  4. Statue of Mao Zedong, Chengdu - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Mao_Zedong,_Chengdu

    The Mao Zedong Statue is a marble sculpture located in Tianfu Square, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. The monument stands 30 m (98.4 ft) tall and depicts Mao Zedong with an outstretched arm. Before 1967, the site was occupied by an ancient palace from the Shu Kingdom of ancient Sichuan .

  5. List of tallest buildings in China by city - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings...

    A total of 32 cities featured in this list currently have at least one supertall skyscraper. The current tallest building in China is the Shanghai Tower in Shanghai , which rises 632 metres (2,073 ft) and was completed in 2015.

  6. Emperors Yan and Huang - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperors_Yan_and_Huang

    The giant sculpture, standing 106 meters tall, combines a mountain and human figures, symbolizing unity. It surpasses the Statue of Liberty in height by 8 meters and the Motherland Calls in Russia by 2 meters. The sculpture features Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang, with identical facial features. Their eyes are 3 meters long, and their noses are ...

  7. Young Mao Zedong statue - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Mao_Zedong_statue

    The Young Mao Zedong statue [1] [2] or statue of Young Mao Zedong [3] [4] is located on Orange Isle in Changsha, Hunan. The monument stands 32 metres (105 ft) tall and depicts Mao Zedong 's head. The Hunan People's Government began building it in 2007 and it was completed two years later, in 2009.

  8. Chinese villagers paint 1,400-year-old Buddha statues to ...

    www.aol.com/news/chinese-villagers-paint-1-400...

    The statues were discovered in 2021 and had not been registered in the heritage protection list, an employee from the local cultural relic protection bureau told China’s state-run broadcaster ...

  9. Grand Buddha at Ling Shan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Buddha_at_Ling_Shan

    It is one of the largest Buddha statues in China and also in the world. The Grand Buddha at Ling Shan is a bronze Amitabha standing Buddha outdoor, weighing over 700 metric tons (690 long tons; 770 short tons).