Existing

Statue	Depicts	Location	Country	Height	Notes	Completed	Coordinates	Photo
Spring Temple Buddha	Buddha - Vairocana Buddha	Lushan, Henan	People's Republic of China	128 m (420 ft)	It includes a 20 m (66 ft) lotus throne. Placed on a 25 m (82 ft) pedestal/building. 153 m (502 ft) total monument height.	2002
Laykyun Setkyar	Buddha - standing Buddha	Monywa, Sagaing Division	Myanmar	116 m (380 ft)	Stands on a 13.5 m (44 ft) base.	2008
Ushiku Daibutsu	Buddha - Amitabha Buddha	Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture	Japan	110 m (328 ft)	Includes the 10 m (33 ft) lotus throne. Placed on a 10 m (33 ft) pedestal/building. 120 m (394 ft) total monument height.	1995
Nanshan Haishang Guanyin	Guan Yin	Sanya, Hainan	China	108 m (354 ft)		2005
Emperors Yan and Huang	Emperors Yan and Huang	Zhengzhou, Henan	China	106 m (348 ft)		2007
Sendai Daikannon	Avalokitesvara	Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture	Japan	100 m (328 ft)
Peter the Great Statue	Peter I of Russia	Moscow	Russia	96 m (315 ft)		1997
Great Buddha of Thailand	Sakayamunee	Ang Thong	Thailand	92 m (300 ft)		2008
Grand Buddha at Ling Shan	Buddha - Gautama Buddha	Wuxi, Jiangsu Province	China	88 m (289 ft)		1996
Dai Kannon of Kita no Miyako park	Avalokitesvara	Ashibetsu, Hokkaidō	Japan	88 m (289 ft)		1989
Rodina-Mat' Zovyot! (Mother Motherland Calls)	Mother Motherland (Soviet Union)	Mamayev Kurgan; Volgograd	Russia	85 m (279 ft)		1967
Awaji Kannon	Avalokitesvara	Awaji Island, Hyōgo Prefecture	Japan	80 m (262 ft)	Stands on a 20 m pedestal/building. 100 m (328 ft) total height
Great Standing Maitreya Buddha	Buddha - Maitreya Buddha	Emei Township, Hsinchu County	Taiwan, ROC	72 m (236 ft)
Leshan Giant Buddha	Buddha - Maitreya Buddha	Leshan	China	71 m (233 ft)	Construction started in 713.	803
Mother Motherland	Mother Motherland (Soviet Union)	Kiev	Ukraine	62 m (203 ft)	Stands on a 40 m pedestal. 102 m (335 ft) total monument height	1981
Jibo Kannon of Narita-san temple	Avalokitesvara	Kurume, Fukuoka prefecture	Japan	62 m (203 ft)
Guanyin of Mount Xiqiao	Guan Yin	Nanhai district, Foshan, Guangdong	China	62 m (200 ft)	Stands on a 15 m pedestal. 77 m (252 ft) total height.
Aizu Jibo Dai-Kannon	Avalokitesvara	Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima	Japan	57 m (187 ft)
Tokyo Wan Kannon	Avalokitesvara	Futtsu, Chiba	Japan	56 m (183.7 ft)		1961
Usami Dai-Kannon	Avalokitesvara	Izu Peninsula, Itō, Shizuoka	Japan	50 m (164 ft)
Dai Kannon of Kamaishi	Avalokitesvara	Kamaishi, Iwate	Japan	48.5 m (159 ft)
Ten Directions Samantabhadra Bodhisattva		Mount Emei, Sichuan province	China	48 m (157 ft)
Virgen de la Paz (Virgin of Peace)	Mary	Trujillo, Trujillo	Venezuela	46.7 m (153 ft)		1983
Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World)	Lady Liberty	Liberty Island, New York	United States	46 m (151 ft)	Stands upon a 47 m pedestal. 93 m (305 ft) total monument height.	1886
Birth of the New Man	Christopher Columbus	Sevilla	Spain	45 m (148 ft)
Phuket Big Buddha	Sakayamunee	Phuket	Thailand	45 m (150 ft)		2008
Lord Murugan statue	Murugan	Batu Caves, Gombak	Malaysia	42.7 m (140 ft)		2006
Grand Byakue Kannon	Avalokitesvara	Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture	Japan	41.8 m (137 ft)		1936
Guanyin of Lianhuashan	Guan Yin	Lianhuashan, Guangzhou, Guangdong	China	40.8 m (134 ft)
Great Matzu		Meizhou Island, Fujian	China	40.5 m (133 ft)
José María Morelos statue	José María Morelos	Janitzio island, Michoacan	Mexico	40 m (132 ft)
Genghis Khan equestrian statue	Genghis Khan	Khentii Province	Mongolia	40 m (132 ft)
Standing Amitabha Buddha of Fo Guang Shan	Buddha Amitabha	Kaohsiung	Taiwan, ROC	40 m (132 ft)
Lord Shiva of Murudeshwara	Shiva	Murudeshwara, district of Uttara Kannada, Karnataka	India	37 m (122 ft)		2006
Rong Xian Buddha	Buddha	Rong Xian, Sichuan province	China	37 m (121 ft)
The Merlion of Sentosa		Sentosa	Singapore	37 m (121 ft)		1996
Statue of Padmasambhava in Namchi	Guru Rinpoche	Namchi	India	36 m (118 ft)
Alyosha monument	World War II Russian soldier	Murmansk	Russia	35.5 m (116.5 ft)	Stands upon a 7 m pedestal. 42,5 m (140 ft) total monument height
Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara of Tazawako	Avalokitesvara	Tazawako, Akita prefecture	Japan	35 m (115 ft)
Cristo de la Concordia	Jesus	Cochabamba	Bolivia	34.2 m (112 ft)	Stands upon a 6.2 m pedestal. 40.4 m (132.5 ft) total monument height
Tian Tan Buddha	Buddha	Ngong Ping, Lantau Island	Hong Kong	34 m (112 ft)		1993
Vargas Swamp Lancers	Vargas Swamp Battle	Boyaca	Colombia	33 m (108 ft)	Over a 20 m building/pedestal. 53 m (174 ft) total height.	1970
Notre-Dame du Sacré-Coeur (Our Lady of the Sacred Heart)	Mary	Le Mas-Rillier in Miribel, Ain	France	33 m (108 ft)	Over a 20 m building/pedestal. 53 m (174 ft) total height.	1941
Golden Maitreya Buddha of Beopjusa	Buddha - Maitreya Buddha	Naesongni-myeon, Chungcheongbuk-do province	South Korea	33 m (108 ft)
Laozi statue in Mount Mao	Laozi	near Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province	China	33 m (108 ft)
Mangal Mahadev	Shiva	Ganga Talao	Mauritius	32.6 m (107 ft)		2007
Mindroling Monastery Buddha statue	Buddha	Dehradun, Uttarakhand state	India	32.6 m (107 ft)
Standing Buddha in the Wat Intharawihan	Buddha	Bangkok	Thailand	32.5 m (106 ft)
Hanuman in Nandura	Lord Hanuman	Maharashtra	India	32 m (105 ft)
Bhaisajyaguru of the Nihon-Ji Temple		Kyonan, Awa District, Chiba	Japan	31 m (102 ft)
Jalesveva Jayamahe Monument	Indonesian naval officer	Surabaya, East Java	Indonesia	30.6 m (100 ft)	Stands over a 30 m tall building. 60.6 m (198 ft) total height.
Lord Shiva of the Har-ki-Pauri	Lord Shiva	Haridwar, Uttarakhand	India	30.5 m (100 ft)
São Francisco de Canindé	Francis of Assisi	Canindé, Ceará	Brazil	30.5 m (100 ft)		2005
Statue of Mao in Chengdu	Mao Zedong	Chengdu, People's Republic of China	People's Republic of China	30 m (95 ft)		(1966 - 1976)
Christ Blessing (Kristus kase Berkat)	Jesus	Manado	Indonesia	30 m (95 ft)	Stands on a 20 m pedestal. 50 m (158.3 ft) total monument height. Build by Indonesian real estate developer Ciputra.	2007
Cristo Resucitado (Christ Resurrected)	Jesus	Tlalnepantla de Baz, Mexico State	Mexico	30 m (98.5 ft)	Stands on a 10 m tall pedestal. 40 m (132 ft) total height.
Virgen de El Panecillo (Virgin in The Panecillo)	Mary	Quito	Ecuador	30 m (98.5 ft)	Stands on a 11 m pedestal. 41 m (134 ft) total
Cristo Redentor do Corcovado (Christ the Redeemer)	Jesus	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	30 m (98.5 ft)	Stands on a 9.5 m pedestal. 39.6 m (130 ft) total monument height	1931
Bronze Guan Yin of Kek Lok Si Temple	Guan Yin	Air Itam, Penang island	Malaysia	30 m (98.5 ft)		1999
Cristo del Otero	Jesus	Palencia	Spain	30 m (98.5 ft)		1931
Thiruvalluvar Statue	Tiruvalluvar	Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu	India	29 m (95 ft)	Stands on a 11,5 m pedestal. 40.5 m (133 ft) total height	2000
Erawan Museum	Airavata	Samut Prakan	Thailand	28.9 m (95 ft)	Stands over a 15 m tall building. 43.8 m (144 ft) total monument height
White marble Guan Yin of Yinxian	Guan Yin	Yinxian, Zhejiang	China	29 m (95 ft)
Cristo-Rei (Christ the King)	Jesus	Almada	Portugal	28 m (92 ft)	Stands on a 82 m pedestal. 103 m (338 ft) total	1959
Christ of Vung Tau	Jesus	Vung Tau, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province	Vietnam	28 m (92 ft)	Stands on a 10 m platform. 38 m (126.5 ft) total monument height
Lenin statue	Vladimir Lenin	Volgograd	Russia	27 m (88.6 ft)	Stands on a 30 m pedestal. The tallest Lenin statue in the world.	April, 20 1973
Bingling Temple Maitreya Buddha	Buddha - Maitreya Buddha	near Lanzhou, Gansu province	China	27 m (88.6 ft)
Heiwa-Kannon	Avalokitesvara's embodiment as the goddess of Peace	Near Utsunomiya; Tochigi Prefecture	Japan	27 m (88.6 ft)		1954
Cristo Rei of Dili (Christ the King)	Jesus	Dili	Timor Leste	27 m (88.6 ft)
Our Lady of the Rockies	Mary	Butte, Montana	United States	27 m (88.6 ft)		1985
Smiling Buddha of the Bao Jue Temple	Buddha - Maitreya Buddha	Taichung	Taiwan, ROC	26.8 m (88 ft)
Statue of Buddha in Kurunegala	Buddha - Gautama Buddha	Kurunegala	Sri Lanka	26.8 m (88 ft)
Hermannsdenkmal	Chief Arminius	North Rhine Westphalia	Germany	26.57 m (87 ft)	Stands at the top of a 27 m (88.5 ft) monument	1875
Sitting Byakue Kannon	Avalokitesvara	Soma city, Fukushima prefecture	Japan	26.4 m (87 ft)
Buddha of the Gandantegchinlen Khiid Monastery	Buddha	Ulan Bator	Mongolia	26.4 m (87 ft)	Tallest indoor statue in the world
Hanuman of Carapichaima	Lord Hanuman	Carapichaima	Trinidad and Tobago	26 m (85 ft)
Adinath, Bawangaja	Adinath	Chulgiri siddha Kshetra,Barwani District, Madhya Pradesh	India	26 m (84 ft)	This one of the old tallest statue of India located in Satpura ranges of Madhya Pradesh
Christ the King of Cali	Jesus	Cali, Valle del Cauca Department	Colombia	26 m (85 ft)		1953
The Broken Christ	Jesus	San José de Gracia, Aguascalientes	Mexico	25 m (82 ft)	Stands over 3 m tall pedestal. 28 m (92 ft) total height.	2006
Christ Roi des Houches	Jesus	Les Houches, Haute-Savoie	France	25 m (82 ft)		1934
Cristo Blanco (White Christ)	Jesus	Cusco, Cusco Province	Peru	25 m (82 ft)		1987
Great Buddha in the coiled Nāga	Buddha	inside the Xieng Khuan, Vientiane	Laos	25 m (82 ft)
Ōfuna Kannon	Avalokitesvara	Kamakura, Kanagawa	Japan	25 m (82 ft)		1961
Hanuman of the Ram Tirath temple	Lord Hanuman	Amritsar, Punjab state	India	24.5 m (80 ft)
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman	Proletarian workers	Moscow	Russia	24 m (77 ft)	Currently disarmed and in restoration	1937
Jiangang Jing She Temple Buddha	Buddha	Tambun, Perak state	Malaysia	24 m (77 ft)
Heiwa Kannon of Funaoka Park	Avalokitesvara's embodiment as the goddess of Peace	near Funaoka station, Miyagi Prefecture	Japan	24 m (77 m)
Kannon of the Ryozen Historical Memorial	Avalokitesvara	Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture	Japan	24 m (77 ft)
The White Buddha statue of Long Son Pagoda	Buddha	Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa province	Vietnam	24 m (77 ft)
Il Sancarlone	Saint Charles Borromeo	Arona, province of Novara	Italy	23.5 m (77 ft)	Standing on a 11.5 m pedestal, 35 m (115 ft) total height	1698
Cristo Rey de los Álamos	Jesus	Tijuana, Baja California state	Mexico	23.3 m (76 ft)		1999
Mother Armenia (Mayr Hayastan)	Mother Armenia	Yerevan	Armenia	23 m (75 ft)	Stands on a 50 m pedestal. 73 m (240 ft) total monument height	1950
Christ the King in Saint Apollonia mount	Jesus	Pachuca, Hidalgo	Mexico	23 m (75 ft)	Stands on a 10 m tall pedestal. 33 m (108 ft) total height.	1996
Torii Kannon	Avalokitesvara	Hannou city, Saitama prefecture	Japan	23 m (75 ft)	Stands on a 12 m pedestal. 35 m (115 ft) total height	1971
Cristo del Sagrado Corazon (Christ of the Sacred Heart)	Jesus	near Rosarito, Baja California state	Mexico	23 m (75 ft)
Lord Vishnu statue	Vishnu	Garuda Wisnu Kencana park in the Bukit Peninsula	Indonesia	23 m (75 ft)	Original project was to construct a 140 m sculpture, currently on hiatus.
Hanuman Vatika	Lord Hanuman	Rourkela, Orissa state	India	23 m (75 ft)
Golden Driller	Oilman	Tulsa, Oklahoma	United States	23 m (75 ft)
Golden Buddha in Ulan Bator	Buddha	Ulan Bator	Mongolia	23 m (75 ft)
Guan Yin	Guan Yin	Zhongzheng Park, Taipei-Keelung metropolitan area	Taiwan, ROC	22.4 m (73 ft)
Battle of Sakarya Monument	Turkish Soldier	Polatlı, Ankara	Turkey	22 m	Stands on a 9 m pedestal, 31 m total height.	2008
Christ the Redeemer of Maratea	Jesus	Maratea, province of Potenza	Italy	22 m (72 ft)		1965
Aumisme Buddha Maitreya in Mandarom		Castellane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	France	22 m (72 ft)		1981
Changhua Great Buddha	Buddha	Changhua City	Taiwan	22 m (72 ft)	Is on top of Bagua Mountain, contains a Buddhist museum inside of the Buddha.
Cristo de las Noas	Jesus	Torreon, Coahuila	Mexico	21.8 m (71.5 ft)
Seiryū-ji Temple Buddha	Dainichi Nyorai	Aomori city, Aomori prefecture	Japan	21.3 m (70 ft)
Buddha of the Longxing Monastery	Buddha	near Zhengding, Hebei province	China	21.3 (70 ft)
Cosmic Christ		Castellane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	France	21 m (69 ft)		1987
Cristo de El Cubilete (Christ King of the Mountain of El Cubilete)	Jesus	Silao, Guanajuato	Mexico	20.5 m (67 ft)	with a 12.5 m pedestal. 33 m (108 ft) total height
Tribute to Courage	Sam Houston	Huntsville, Texas	United States	20.5 m (67 ft)	with a 3 m (10 ft) pedestal	1994
Dallas Zoo's giraffe statue	Giraffe	Dallas, Texas	United States	20.5 m (67 ft)		1997
Kartlis Deda (Mother Georgia)	Mother Georgia	Tbilisi	Georgia	20 m (65.5 ft)		1958
Guan Yin of the South Sea	Guan Yin	Putuo Shan island, Shanghai	China	20 m (65.5 ft)	upon a 13 m pedestal. 33 m (108 ft) total height
Christ Statue	Jesus	El Picacho city park; Tegucigalpa	Honduras	20 m (65.5 ft)	over a 12 m pedestal	1987
Kun Iam statue	Guan Yin		Macau	20 m (65.5 ft)	with a 7 m pedestal, 27 m (88 ft) final height	2002
Christ of Havana	Jesus	La Habana	Cuba	20 m (65.5 ft)	with a 3 m pedestal. 23 m (75 ft) total height	1958
Hanuman Murti in New Delhi	Lord Hanuman	New Delhi	India	20 m (65.5 ft)
Angel of the North, by Antony Gormley	Angel	Gateshead, England	United Kingdom	20 m (65.5 ft)		1998
Kim Il Sung statue	Kim Il Sung	Pyongyang	North Korea	20 m (65.5 ft)		1972
Cristo de "Las Mesas"	Jesus	San Ignacio, Sinaloa	Mexico	20 m (65.5 ft)		2005
Great Sphinx of Giza	Sphinx	Giza, near Cairo	Egypt	20 m (65.5 ft)		2500 BC approx.
Goddess A-Ma statue	A-Ma	Coloane	Macau	20 m (65.5 ft)		1998
Christ of the Ozarks	Jesus	Eureka Springs, Arkansas	United States	20 m (65.5 ft)		1966
Shiva at Kemp Fort	Lord Shiva	Bangalore	India	20 m (65.5 ft)
Monumento a San Juan Bautista (Sanjuanote)	John the Baptist	San Juan de los Morros	Venezuela	19.8 m (62.3 ft)		1935
King of Kings	Jesus	Monroe, Ohio	United States	19 m (62 ft)		2004
Wat Phanan Choeng Buddha	Sakayamunee	Ayutthaya	Thailand	19 m		1334
Faro della Vittoria (Victory Lighthouse)	Vittoria Alata (Winged Victory)	Parco della Rimembranza (Remembrance Park of World War I), Turin	Italy	18.5 m (60.7 ft)	26.5 m (86.94 ft) total monument height (with 8 m pedestal); It's a lighthouse, working regularly, on the top of Maddalena Hill (715m, 2345 ft)	1928		[446142]
Praying Hands	Praying Hands	Tulsa, Oklahoma	United States	18.2 m (60 ft)	Oral Roberts University	1980
Buddha	Buddha	Lake Hussain Sagar, Hyderabad	India	18 m (59 ft)	Found on Lake Hussain Sagar in the city of Hyderabad	1972
Hanuman	Lord Hanuman	Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh	India	18 m (59 ft)	Found on to of the Vidya Giri Hill overlooking the Sri Sathya Sai International Hillview Stadium along with statues of other great gods and spiritual leaders.	1985
Gomateswara	Lord Bahubali	Sravanabelagola, Karnataka	India	18 m (59 ft)	It's the tallest free–standing monolithic statue in the world.	983
Monumento a Nuestra Señora de Chiquinquirá	Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá	Maracaibo	Venezuela	18 m (59 ft)		2004
Vulcan statue	Vulcan	Birmingham, Alabama	United States	17.1 m (56 ft)	On Red Mountain, source of Birmingham's iron ore. World's largest cast iron statue.	1904
Jolly Green Giant	Jolly Green Giant	Blue Earth, Minnesota	United States	16 m		1979
Phutthamonthon Buddha	Sakayamunee	Phutthamonthon Nakorn Pathom	Thailand	15.875 m		1981
Birushana Nyorai Buddha of Tōdai-ji	Birushana Nyorai	Nara city	Japan	15 m		752
Lenin statue	Vladimir Lenin	Dubna	Russia	15 m (49.2 ft)	Stands on a 10 m pedestal. Second tallest Lenin statue in the world	1937
Memorial to the Virgin Mary	Mary	Haskovo, Haskovo Province	Bulgaria	14 m (46 ft)	Stands on a 17 m tall pedestal. 31 m (101.7 ft) total height.	2003
Kamakura Daibutsu	Amida Buddha	Kamakura, Kanagawa	Japan	13.5 m	Second largest bronze Buddha statue in Japan	1252
Mongkolbopit Buddha	Sakayamunee	Ayutthaya	Thailand	12 m		1538
Vision of Peace	Native American	City Hall, St Paul, Minnesota	United States	11.6 m (38 ft)		1936
Monument Statue Aerospace (Patung Monumen Dirgantara)	Spaceman	Pancoran, Jakarta	Indonesia	11 m	Standing 27 meters tall pedestal.Total height 38 m	1965
Iron Man	Iron Miner	Chisholm, Minnesota	United States	10.9 m (36 ft)	Stands on a base that raises the statue up to 26 m (85 ft) see article	1987

Destroyed

• Great Buddha of Bamiyan; Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan. 55 m (180 ft). Completed in 554 and destroyed in 2001.
• Minor Buddha of Bamiyan; Bamiyan province, Afghanistan. 37 m (121 ft). Completed in 507 and destroyed in 2001.
• Colossus of Nero (later renamed as Colossus Solis); Rome, Italy. 36 m (120 ft). Completed in 75 with unknown date of destruction.
• The Cosmoplanetary Messiah; near Castellane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. 33 m (108 ft). Completed in 1990 and destroyed in 2001.
• Colossus of Rhodes; Rhodes island, Dodecanese region, Greece. 30 m (98.5 ft). Completed in 280 BC and destroyed in 226 BC.
• Gundam statue; Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan. 18 m (59 ft). Completed and destroyed in 2009. See also GREEN TOKYO Gundam project.
• Stalin's Monument in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 15.5 m, stood on some 15 m pedestal. Completed in 1955, destroyed in 1962.
• Statue of Zeus at Olympia; Olympia, Peloponnese region, Greece. 12 m (39 ft). Completed in 432 BC and destroyed in 475 AD.
• Athena Promachos; Acropolis, Athens, Greece. 9 m (30 ft). Completed in 465 BC and destroyed in 1203 AD.

Planned

• Crazy Horse Memorial (depicts Crazy Horse); Black Hills, South Dakota, United States. 172 m (564 ft) when completed.
• Maitreya Project (depicts Maitreya); Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India. 152 m (500 ft).
• Garuda Wisnu Kencana (depicts Garuda; Vishnu ; Bukit Peninsula, Bali, Indonesia. 146 m.
• Birth of the New World (depicts Christopher Columbus); Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. 110 m (362 ft).
• Noah Statue; North Sumatra, Indonesia. 80 m (262.5 ft).
• Christ of Copoya; Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico. 62 m (203 ft).
• Buddha Dordenma (depicts Shakyamuni Buddha); Thimphu, Bhutan. 51 m (169 ft).
• Shivaji statue; Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. 48 m (159 ft) with a 45.5 m (150 ft) pedestal.
• Christ statue; Prešov, Slovakia. 33 m. (108 ft) when completed.

Other organizational lists

• List of statues
• List of tallest statues in the United States
• List Of Colossal Sculpture In Situ
• List of Roman domes
• New Seven Wonders of the World
• List of archaeological sites sorted by country
• List of megalithic sites
• List of archaeoastronomical sites sorted by country
• List of Egyptian pyramids
• List of Mesoamerican pyramids
• Lists of wars

References

External links

• Top 10 highest monuments - Architecture Portal News